<p>One summer I worked in the computer room at my dad’s company. Most boring job ever. I sat there and waited for a notice to come up on the screen requesting a specific tape to be put on the tape reading machine. Went into the tape library, found said tape, and mounted it on tape reading machine. Also sometimes I had to feed cards into the card-reader machine, but that was getting “out of date” at that point. </p>
<p>I don’t suppose anyone needs tape mounters or card-reader-machine feeders any more…</p>
<p>I worked as an analyst in a market research firm. It involved taking huge reams of data printouts and searching for the relevant data, and then crunching the numbers to insert into charts and then <em>drawing</em> with <em>pen and ink</em> beautiful, gorgeous graphs. The year was 1978. We also created presentation charts, drawing the graphs and then adding the letters with rub ons.</p>
<p>Those jobs I am sure have been completely eliminated … as the data should arrived pre-crunched to order and the project manager (that I worked for) will be able to create their own charts with a point and click action.</p>