Ten Diminishing Careers Include Cashiers and Book Binders

Posted on January 23, 2007

Advancement in technologies combined with the offshoring (or outsourcing) of jobs to cheap overseas labor is pushing some careers towards extinction. AOL ran a list of ten jobs that that are dissapearing in an article titled, Going, Going, Gone. The ten rapidly shrinking jobs according to AOL are:

Cashiers
Couriers and Messengers
Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers and Weighers
Customer Service Representative
Book Binder
Film Processors
Fishers and Fishing Vessel Operators
Electronic Home Entertainment Equipment Installers and Repairers
Procurement Clerks
Power Plant Operators

For some of those jobs you have probably noticed that new do-it-yourself technologies are replacing workers. Other jobs are being offshored -- by now most everyone has talked to a customer service rep from India or elsewhere in the world. People still have these jobs today but they may not be careers you want to aspire towards if you are young and will soon be entering the workplace.