Posted on 10/15/2015 9:12:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Thanks in part to advances like email, Facebook, and Twitter, mail carriers will be all but obsolete in the not-so-distant future.
By 2022, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a 28% decline in postal-service jobs, totaling around 139,100 fewer positions.
Mail carriers aren't the only ones whose jobs are disappearing. Technology and market shifts have affected a wide range of fields.
Based on the BLS's occupational outlook data, here are 15 American jobs that are on their way out.
1. Printing worker
According to the BLS, printing workers inspect random samples during print runs to identify problems and make adjustments.
Median annual pay: $34,100
Number of people who hold this job in the US: 276,000
Projected decline by 2022: 5%
Why it's declining: Newspapers and magazines have seen substantial declines in print volume in recent years, as these media have increasingly moved to digital formats
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2. Desktop publisher
According to the BLS, desktop publishers use computer software to design layouts for books, newspapers, and other published items.
Median annual pay: $37,040
Number of people who hold this job in the US: 16,400
Projected decline by 2022: 5%
Why it's declining: Graphic designers, web designers, and copy editors are increasingly taking on desktop publishing tasks
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3. Metal or Plastic Machine Worker
According to the BLS, metal and plastic machine workers set up and operate automated and computer-controlled machinery.
Median annual pay: $32,950
Number of people who hold this job in the US: 1,013,200
Projected decline by 2022: 6%
Why it's declining: Advances in technology, foreign competition, and changing demand for the goods these workers produce all contribute to job decline.
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4. Insurance Underwriter
According to the BLS, insurance underwriters determine the risk of insuring a client.
Median annual pay: $62,870
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Secretaries have rapidly disappeared. Most lawyers and business folks I run across do their own typing, or have a paraprofessional draft.
I catch heat every time I say this but technology is not always a good thing. Not every one can be a programmer or IT person. There is a point when there is too much technology I do not want to be like the Krell and be totally non-physical.
The dangerous one here is farmer. Once individual farms/ranches are gone and Monsanto and Con-Agri types run everything watch prices skyrocket or a Soylent Green scenario where we do not know what they are serving us. He who control the food control the masses.
#1 The American Job
I would be happy to see normal mail service drop to 4 days a week
Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat (Sat primarily for signed deliveries for people who were not home during the week)
Floral worker jobs going away despite gay marriage?
Not surprising the postal workers are highest paid.
RE: Floral worker jobs going away despite gay marriage?
How many gays marry anyway?
The USPS delivers about 2/3 of the stuff I order from Amazon these days. So I wonder about this one.
Mail should be delivered 3 times per week for residences. Would save almost 50% on vehicle expenses and 50% on Labor to deliver.
But then who will deliver my daily 5lb load of junk mail?
Hoes, Divorce Attorneys will be a dying breed also with the advent of NEW, IMPROVED rubber dolls!
Not much new here except the broadcast media category.
The future belongs to those who can code. Programming, back end especially, should be pushed in education. However, watch out for a certain amount of offshore here also. Thus your skills need to be more business process related.
Else you need to be in sales, medical, public safety or mid/upper management. Therefore people to people industries.
In other news...
Employment of elevator operators, slide-rule makers, and buggy-whip fabricators remain at record low levels.
“The USPS delivers about 2/3 of the stuff I order from Amazon these days. So I wonder about this one.”
That’s what I was going to post...Nearly all of my shopping is via Amazon.
Another thing is Express-Scripts for prescriptions comes via USPS and the business is huge.
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But then who will deliver my daily 5lb load of junk mail?”
Tuesday’s mail contained 27 Halloween and Christmas catalogs, most bearing a notice that it would be my last one because I hadn’t ordered in almost 12 months. No one in our subdivision received any mail on Wednesday. I’m sure the box will be full today, primarily of grocery store ads, even though they are readily available on-line. In the meantime I have received countless emails giving discounts from many companies if I order Christmas items by October 31. What happened to Thanksgiving?
Jeb Bush’s campaign staff.
They totally missed coal miners.
The programmers and IT people are all from India being paid half price after being brought over under USA law to fill the supposedly unfilled jobs.
The whole country is a disaster.
IT professionals include programmers, database administrators, and network support technicians.
Median annual pay: $85.487
Number of people who hold this job in the US: 2,500,000
Projected decline by 2022: 75%
Why it's declining: Many complex IT answers are now a one-second Google search away - eliminating the need for a full-time office Know-It-All; IT is being absorbed back into the business disciplines that use it as an ancillary skill; unbridled arrogance, poor social skills, and minimal personal hygiene on the part of too many IT practitioners; corporate abuse of the H1B visa program.
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RE: They totally missed coal miners.
Perhaps they are hoping against hope that Donald Trump would win the presidency in 2016.
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