>>>>I hear you. On The Other Hand, I wonder if technology has actually put more people out of work entirely - other jobs always seem to appear.....
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>>Net/net i think it's about a wash , but entire job classes have vanished while some have been created.
>>When someone first talked to me about programming as a career, I thought he was suggesting that I work in TV.
>>There were no programmers then so that was a brand new classification.
>>On the other hand, does anyone remember telephone operators or typists? There were zillions of them.
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>I think a lot of them retrained as Fuller Brush Men (FB Persons?) or door to door Encyclopedia salesmen.

That's better than the reverse. I once worked on a project which was started by a door to door door salesman. What a mess!