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Nearby_Personality55 t1_irs246n wrote

If you're over 45 then you have already seen a ton of office jobs disappear, even more if you're over 60. We don't have typing pools anymore. You don't have the records clerk at a hospital who works there 30 years and retires with a pension. There is a ton of office work that no longer exists and a lot is because a smaller number of workers can do a larger amount of work with modern computers.

A young woman used to be able to get an office job with a typing certificate and a high school diploma.

A lot of my arguments with Boomers have been around the fact that the same jobs just are not available for Gen X and younger.

So basically we've always expected office work to go away, and now office work requires a degree, an unpaid internship, and some nepotism to even get. Which speaks to its having largely already gone away.

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Bnufer t1_irt5x51 wrote

Rooms full of Draftsmen in factories are gone replaced by CAD, Engineers process their own drawings now. Fewer engineers too, b/c modern design programs do a lot of the calculations that they used to have to perform manually.

I worked for one, I was in an office space that was ~2500sqft shared by 4 engineers, used to sit ~30 draftsmen

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