“Some of those occupations have been on steep decline since the 1990s...”
Yes, seriously. “Typists” and “telephone operators”? When’s the last time anyone around here talked to a telephone operator? “Number, please...” Right up there with buggy-whip salesman.
In the mid to late 1800s the largest company in my hometown made whip sockets and accessories for the carriage industry in Flint MI.