Daytona Beach News: The Lost Jobs

The pay-phone maintenance man is cited as an example of a job that will eventually disappear.
The maintenance man quoted in this story offers this insight into the state of the payphone business:

 

“‘There is a large section of society, the have-nots, who use pay phones,’ he said. And pay phones can be essential during hurricanes when the electrical power goes out or towers are damaged and many home phones and cell phones don’t work.”

I would add to the list of fading jobs that of the electronics repair-person. I can remember not that long ago taking VCRs and video game consoles in for repairs, but today those things are so cheap that it often makes more financial sense to just get a new one – even if you have the skills to fix these things yourself.
The Daytona Beach News story also focuses on the full-service gas station attendant as a doomed job. That may be true in most of the country, but not in New Jersey or Oregon. Pumping your own gas is illegal in those states.
I would think, too, that the physically handicapped would hope for a future with some quantity of full service gas station attendants.
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