17 Bizarre Jobs Our Ancestors Did That No Longer Exist
We could all be dinosaurs. The Economist predicts that robots are going to replace telemarketers, accountants, and retail workers, and Bill Gates says software bots will take even more jobs.
This isn't the first time that whole swaths of the labor market have gone extinct: The Industrial Revolution did away with gigs that your great-great-grandparents might have had that sound preposterous to us today.
Based on the Bureau of Labor Statistic's occupational classification list from 1850, an awesome video from Mental Floss, and some research of our own, we found several bizarre-sounding occupations that are now totally extinct.
This is an update of an article that previously ran. Additional reporting by Vivian Giang.
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