# Defunct professions

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**Created:** [September 29, 2016, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/defunct-professions/767198 "2016-09-29T13:03:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/defunct-professions/767198/35 "2016-09-30T15:56:49Z")

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For me the defunct profession is “Flight Engineer”. When I started in the industry in the late '80s there were probably 10,000 flight engineers working in the US. Now it’s closer to a couple hundred. I bet it’ll be zero in another 5-ish years.

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