Do you have any job skills that are now obsolete?

[hunter]

252. I enjoyed repairing monitors and television...

... especially when I was doing it as a volunteer for senior citizens and students who otherwise might not have computers. There are some very high voltages inside CRT monitors so there's an element of danger too, which I've always found attractive in any kind of work.

I hated "production" RIA work in medical labs, actually any of the jobs I've ever had that could clearly be automated but weren't. There was an element of danger in that too, handling raw blood samples from random people who might have any number of contagious diseases, not to mention the radioactive materials. We dumped it all down the drain when the tests were run. Nah, it wasn't all that dangerous if one was diligent about their safety gear. I liked doing this kind of work in research labs, it wasn't so monotonous. Or maybe it was monotonous and just didn't feel that way exploring new territory.

Back in the keypunch days the work environment was incredibly sexist. Men did the "real" work of programming and collecting data, writing it down on paper tablets by hand, and that was handed off to the women who did the clerical work of transcribing programs and data to punched cards.

My mom, who was a world class typist, had made me take typing classes in middle school, which put me ahead of many other science and engineering students in college. The more affluent among my fellow students would sometime hire people, again mostly women, to do their keypunch work or typing.