Odd Jobs That No Longer Exist!

These jobs certainly won't be on today's resumes. There are many old jobs that seem quite strange now. In this video we will have a closer look at some odd jobs that no longer exist!

#jobs #nostalgia #career

[russbear]

Rhetty, we still have milkmen in Kansas City who deliver the milk in GLASS bottles. There's a small family-owned dairy north of town (Shatto Milk Co.) that still delivers milk, eggs, bacon, cheese, butter, bread and other goodies straight from the farm. They revived it here almost 25 years ago--and they're popular here and making $$. 😃

[DonnyNoMarie]

One day, people are going to say, "remember when stores had human cashiers?"

[continentalgin]

What a fun video! When I was a kid, gasoline stations had a crew of men who would immediately start looking into various things on your car when you drove in. They would check the oil, check the tire pressures, check the belts on your engine, check the radiator to see if it was leaking, check your headlights and taillights, check your wiper blades, clean all your windows, fill 'er up with gas, and so forth. It was fairly common to hear, 'You're about a half quart low, we'll top it off for you' regarding the oil dip stick reading. These guys were in snappy uniforms and did not expect or receive tipping. Of course, where they worked were not just 'filling stations, ' they were called 'service stations.' By the way, all transactions were in cash. No one had a credit or debit card.

[canature]

Before the trash trucks of today, I remember as a kid in the 70s watching out the front window once a week to see the "garbage man" come by. Every family had those silver galvanized metal trash cans with the loud clunky lids out on the curb, and the trash truck would make its way through the neighborhood with one man driving the truck. And one, or sometimes two men, standing on the back holding on. At each house they would hop off, grab a trash can, and physically empty it into the trash truck. Then they would roughly put the empty, loud, clangy, metal can back on the sidewalk. What a racket! But as a kid it was fun to see and hear once a week lol

[Rescoase]

I knew an older gentleman in Texas whose career was driving and delivering milk and wonderful cheeses throughout the 50s-70s for Borden Dairy. This was enough to retire with a pension allowing him to play golf almost every day.

[s.tiffanysmith]

My grandmother's only job outside of the home was an elevator operator at the local office building. She used to speak of it with such pride. She would speak of all the interesting people she would meet.

[timcowl]

My parents’ house had a milk box. It was built in 1956 or so, and was the last subdivision in our little town to include them! Came in handy when you forgot your key!

[lohphat]

You can still get milk service in England.

Another forgotten job were the diaper cleaning services used before disposable diapers. You would duo solids in the toilet and put the cloth diapers in a special bin with a lid. Then the diaper van would come by to pick up the bin bags of soiled diapers and drop off clean and folded diapers for the next use.

[tlbennett]

My first job no longer exists. I was a bag boy in a grocery store and collected all the glass bottles brought in for exchange (back when soda came in glass bottles, my brother and I would walk around and collect bottles and cash them in for baseball cards).

[brucesanderson]

I remember a man with a truck who came around and sold fish. He had a scale hanging on an arm from the truck where he weighed the fish he sold.
Another man used to go around town and collect the garbage from people which he fed to the pigs he raised in the river bottom near town. There was no paper in the garbage because everyone and an incinerator in their backyard.
During WWII there were blackouts on the west coast and a man went around to see if any light was showing from your house.
Another industry that lasted only a short time was the frozen food locker. After butchering our meat was sent to the frozen food locker and stored there. After home freezers became common the frozen food locker closed.

[Bluerose]

In the 60's our town had a bookmobile. They would be at certain locations on certain days. One location was right across the alley in the church parking lot from our house. A bookmobile was like a camper but had shelf's of books and a little counter with a librarian at it to check out books. At the front was the door to enter and the back was the door to exit. I loved it!

[galebailey]

My mother told me that during The Great Depression there were “ragmen” who would come in horse-drawn carts collecting old or torn clothes, fabrics and the like. They would constantly yell “Rags!” to announce their presence as they moved along.

[JHsweeeeeeet]

My mom used to tell me what it was like when she was a teenager working as a pin setter in a bowling alley, and when she worked as a switchboard operator (back in the day, in Alberta Canada, when people had to use them to make a long distance call), she put in a call from Marilyn Monroe, who was filming River Of No Return in Banff, to Joe Dimaggio in New York .... She said she and her coworkers couldn't resist listening in to their conversation, but had to hide from their supervisor so they wouldn't get in trouble 😀 Ah I love your videos! The good old days, eh? 🙂

[yuvgotubekidding]

In my father’s youth he was a pin setter, paperboy, shined shoes, and later worked in his mother’s costume shop. Her second husband was a former circus clown.

[joeheid]

I got one. I was a paperboy in the 70's. I remember a couple customers who had me put their paper in their milkbox ironically. We used a milkman til about the mid 70's if I remember right.

[Jennifer-jtcb]

I'm studying right now to become a bladesmith. Not because I want to try to make some money or anything, but because I love creating things and have always loved smithing.

[cynthiacronin]

I remember the milkman...well into the mid sixties. Still have the small fridge that held the dairy products. And it still works.

[lolacorinne]

I had a cousin who was an elevator operator at the old Florence Hotel in Missoula, Montana. She often told about when Bing Crosby rode in her elevator when he was in town😸

[godofzombi]

Stoker is another one of those jobs that fell by the wayside once we stopped using steam to power our devices. There were a lot more street sweepers and coach drivers before the invention of the automobile.

[mdcs]

I know your channel is more for an American audience but in 1960s England, I used to go to school Mon-Fri, then work Sat and Sun as a "milkboy." It's that long ago that we still had Pounds, Shillings, and Pence (240 pennies = 1 pound). I earned 15 shillings for Saturday and 10 shillings for Sunday (75 and 50 pence respectively in the decimal currency of today). That was for about 15 hour's work. As a Londoner, I'm also old enough to remember lift (elevator) operators in the up market stores like Harrods and Selfridges. My Mum worked as a telephone operator, inserting and removing plugs on a switchboard. Thanks for the memories.