Interesting thread for hard economic times. There truly is a job for EVERYONE - if they will only look. These are not obsolete - but current occupations - there are statistics to show how many are employed in each field.

Every job in the USA is classified according to a DOT number in the government's Directory Of Occupational Titles. There are thousands and thousands:

HUCKSTER (retail trade) -May attract attention by playing chimes or chanting song.

POULTRY DEBEAKER - Burns chicks beaks and toes

HURL SHAKER - - separates broomcorn stems according to thicknes stacks stems in storage bins.

HOSE SUSPENDER CUTTER - leave this to your imagination

HOT-STONE SETTER - Sets rhinestones in plastic buttons

APRON CLEANER - Combs asbestos

TOE PULLER - Pulls off toenails, using hook May remove eyelids of hogs

WORM PICKER Sprinkles chlorinated water on lawn to cause worms to come to surface

STONER - Stones (polishes) watch parts

LIFEGUARD-UNIT REPAIRER - another for your imagination

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

As a child we were fortunate in our neighborhood to have visitations by the pushcart knife-grinder and the pushcart rag man, also the lame push-mower lawn man and the pony-photo man along with various gypsies since the US king was local. My first job - with SS and Workmen's Compensation? "Burro Wrangler"