Disappeared professions: list. What professions will disappear by 2020?

The development of technology and technology is primarily aimed at improving and facilitating the life of each of us. But at the same time, this is the reason for the disappearance of a number of crafts. Disappeared professions - this is the work that was previously performed by specially trained people, and now generally does not make sense or is carried out with the help of technology.

Disappearing professions - is this normal?

Logically, it becomes clear that such processes in the structure of professions are quite natural. In no case should we take the disappearance of professions as a kind of destructive factor, as a result of which many people become unemployed. It is important to remember that old professions that have disappeared necessarily change with new specialties, more modern, relevant and in demand for the social order. Sometimes there is a direct replacement of crafts, for example, the ancient profession of a copper-smelted degenerator degenerates into the profession of an electric gas welder, once the popular work of a newsboy becomes less and less in demand, and in its place one can place the work of a promoter that appeared recently.

The most ancient professions that have disappeared

What are the oldest disappeared professions? The list of such crafts, gone into oblivion, is quite long. The disappearance of professions is an ongoing, planned process that does not attract the attention of the broad masses. Today we do not think about what professions have disappeared several centuries ago, and we may not even suspect about their existence.

List of forgotten professions

• Pied Piper. One of the terrible problems of the Middle Ages were rats. As you guessed, people who were called rat-catchers fought bravely with the misfortune. Representatives of this profession, despite all their usefulness, were not very revered in society. Each Pied Piper had his methods of fighting rodents and tried to advertise himself better to circumvent the competition.
• An ice maker is an extremely difficult and dangerous profession that involves a risk to life. The tools of the ice-cutters were long saws with a load under the water. The ice was cut by longitudinal bars, which were called "boars". Further, these "boars" were supplied to settlements and were quite a commodity.
• The gaggle was engaged in planting turnips. The name of the profession gave a specific method of sowing small seeds of this plant.
• Mourners and wailers were trained in the craft of crying from childhood. Without them, there was not a single ritual action in Russia. The more plaintive and piercing the mourner could moan, the higher was the reward for her labors.
• Skomorokhi - their professional duties were the entertainment of ordinary people on the streets of cities. The reason for the disappearance of this profession was not technical progress, but changes in the social structure of society.
• The alarm clock man - from the title it is already clear what the people of this profession were doing. At a time when the alarm clock was not invented, it was also not desirable to be late for work. For this purpose, a special person knocked at the windows, notifying about the arrival of the morning. Sometimes this function was performed by janitors.
• Executioner - now you will not meet people of this rare profession because of their uselessness in the current social order.

Each of these specialties seems strange and ridiculous to us. It is hard to imagine in the modern world an executioner exposing a resume, or a mourner advertising his services. But in due time it was quite popular specialists.

What professions did not become in the last century

These fisheries are already closer and familiar to us. They do not seem so absurd, but they do not fit into the realities of modern society.

• Lamplighter. Remembering the disappeared profession, it is impossible not to pay attention to people who gave light. Their main task is to light the lights at dusk.
• The driver is a man who drives a horse cart. Previously, it was the only way to get to your destination as quickly as possible. In the modern world, the analogue of this profession can be called a chauffeur.
• The counter is specially trained people who performed complex mathematical calculations using the only "gadget" available at that time - the accounts. This business was mainly women, because they are more attentive and collected.
• The reader is a very cognitive profession. In factories and factories where people were busy for hours at a time with monotonous labor, there was a man who entertained them by reading newspapers, fiction and poetry. Often recruits hired for the money collected by the team.

Disappeared professions in the last 10 years

They say: "life is getting faster." Probably, it is in this connection that changes in the structure of specialties are becoming more noticeable. It will not be difficult for us to recall the mass of examples of professions that disappear right before our eyes. Disappeared professions in Russia over the past decade:

• Grinder knife - in principle, such a profession still exists, but its representatives in the day with fire you will not find, so they have become a rarity. The fashion included non-fading knives made of high-quality steel, which can serve for a long time, and they are much cheaper.
• Shoe Cleaner - A long time ago they could be seen at every intersection of the main streets of cities and towns. Later, shoes cleaners engaged in their craft mainly in special workshops.

• A telephonist, a telegraph operator -like sending telegrams to the post office seemed to us to be a common thing. And how nice it was to hear the voice of the telephone operator, waiting for connection with the subscriber. Now everything is in the past. The role of cute representatives of these professions can replace a functional smartphone. We managed to learn not all of the disappeared professions. This list with every decade is getting longer.

Is it possible to predict something

Analyzing information about which professions have disappeared and what events provoked such disappearance, one can make an assumption about how things will be in the structure of the crafts. The beginning of extinction of some specialties is so obvious that it is not even necessary to be an expert in order to draw the appropriate conclusions.

Professions that will disappear by 2020

This information is not 100% reliable, but still no one can doubt that these specialties will soon cease to exist. Already, they are losing their relevance, are becoming less in demand, and after 2020, most likely, they will be transferred to the category of "disappeared professions".

• Postman - a profession doomed to extinction. With the advent of the Internet, newspapers and magazines lost their former popularity, and 90% of the letters we receive on the electronic mailbox.
• Travel agent - the information about places of rest becomes publicly available, the planning of tourist trips does not require any additional resources and becomes available to everyone.
• Librarian, archivist, document manager - the organization of electronic databases and electronic archives contributes to the extinction of these professions.
• Copywriter - according to forecasts, soon computer programs will be able to generate articles of different subjects, and the number of "keyboard workers" will be sharply reduced.
• Call-center operator - already now many companies offer the possibility of solving problematic issues in an automatic mode, controlling the actions of the system through the commands of the answering machine. This becomes the basis for a sharp reduction in the number of operators.
• Lecturer . Online courses are an alternative to classroom activities. It is because of these innovations in the education system that she can disappear another profession.
• Usher. With the crayon reading information - that's what will become a substitute for a living person, a ticket sales and checking specialist.
• Seamstress is hard to believe, but this profession is also under threat of extinction. Soon, manual labor will only be needed to create expensive designer things, and equipment for self-made clothes at home will be available for everyone.
• Elevator - mechanisms that ensure the uninterrupted operation of elevators, every year more and more improved and automated. Soon, to monitor the operation of elevators will not need specialists, for them it will make cars.
• The stenographer - in the next few years the work of stenographers and decrypters will completely replace the work of computer programs capable of voice recognition.

We choose the "right" profession

We were always taught to choose a profession with our soul. But what if the work that you like and to which there is a craving suddenly becomes unnecessary? It will be insulting if knowledge and professional skills remain unrealized. In order not to get into this situation, in addition to other factors, one must consider the prospects of this specialty in the conditions of technical progress. Try to choose the future profession with all seriousness and consider the issue from different sides.

Let's sum up

The vanished professions of the 20th century are a huge list of specific crafts, which in most cases are based on heavy physical labor. The need for the existence of such professions has disappeared with the advent of complex technical devices controlled by man and performing this work in his place. In today's world, these disappeared professions may seem strange, surprising or meaningless, but they will always remain part of our history.