Keep learning to keep your job skills, or be left behind.

Like it or not, technology keeps changing and jobs are changing along with it. Throughout history we can see people protesting, complaining even sabotaging progress. All these protests only slow down the progress but ultimately the progress moves on and people that tried to stop it get left behind. Some of the examples of this can be seen here:

Luddites

-The Luddites were 19th-century English textile workers or self-employed weavers. They feared the end of their trade and protested, primarily between 1811 and 1816, against newly developed technologies: stocking frames, spinning frames and power looms. The new technology introduced during the Industrial Revolution threatened to replace them with less-skilled, low-wage laborers, leaving them without work.

 

-Before 1950’s bowling alleys employed teenage boys to pick up pins and return balls to the players. bowling alley pin setterThey were called pinsetters and were also known as “pinboys” or “pin monkeys.” Automation eliminated a lot of jobs.

 

 

 

– When elevators were first invented, they were difficult to operate by ordinary person, so “skilled” Elevator operator

workers were trained to operate elevator. Patrons would tell operator which floor they wanted to go, and operator would take them there. Automation eliminated these jobs by making elevators “idiot proof” by just pressing a button to which floor patron wants to go to.

 

 

– Up until late 1970’s a lot of girls aspired to be a Telephone operators in 1950-1960highly paid Long Distance operator. Technology replaced these jobs with automated switching system

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