Thread: Did Your Job Disappear?

Originally Posted by Chris Parks

I was reading the paper today and there was an article predicting that a lot of jobs are going to disappear in the next twenty years due to the digital age catching up with them. When I started work in the mid sixties I was an apprentice compositor in the printing industry and that job completely disappeared due to digital publishing. Did you have a job earlier in your life that has effectively disappeared for whatever reason?

I was upstairs as a proof reader - that one has definitely gorn

Neil

Originally Posted by rob streeper

I haven't even seen a payphone in ages.

Obviously you haven't been incarcerated in ages, either.

That's about the only place that you will see a pay phone these days.

Originally Posted by rrich

Obviously you haven't been incarcerated in ages, either.

That's about the only place that you will see a pay phone these days.

There's one about 400 metres up the road, next to the shops, from me and it still works.

Peter.

Originally Posted by Sturdee

There's one about 400 metres up the road, next to the shops, from me and it still works.

Peter.

Is that cell block 3 or cell block 4, near the canteen?

Originally Posted by rrich

Obviously you haven't been incarcerated in ages, either.

That's about the only place that you will see a pay phone these days.

I can think of 3 near me off the top of my head. They're slowly being converted to public WiFi hotspots