Is Sacramento a large market? The only station I listen to has full time DJs on every daytime and early evening shift. They don’t have news readers, though.
You mean Draftsman?
Don’t think so. Even in 1973, we were shown a 16mm film about a GM (world’s largest company, the definition of "Blue Chip) computer which could rotate a part on any axis, adjust dimensions, and print out the blueprints.
CAD-CAM preceded micro computers by many years.
I still (40+ yrs later) have a copy of a 50-part steering gear I drew. Yes, every part is shown and labelled.
My first ever job was shelving books in a public library, so people are still needed to do that. But I’d be surprised if my next job, as a ledger clerk, exists to any appreciable extent if at all. I worked for a magazine distribution firm entering all the wholesaler returns in a big book, using a red pencil.
Obviously both these were part time jobs.
My first full-time professional job, with a required university degree, was as a subject indexer in insurance law. I imagine some publishers still use human indexers for this work; all the nuances of the job can’t be programmed, at least not yet.
I would say “yes” to your question. A quick search revealed a source that lists 286 radio markets in the U.S.
Sacramento is ranked #27.
Sales associate at a southern department store chain which is still in existence.
For my first ‘here’s a paycheck’ job I worked for two years at university as an hourly grader. Not quite a TA, as I was still an undergraduate, but grad students and the occasional undergrad were assigned to the big survey classes to do all of the essay-exam marking. I think I did Western Civ a couple of times, a survey on the History of England to 1715, a US Women in History class, and my fave, Roman Sports and Entertainment (partly because I like the topic, and partly because the professor was awesome. He was my bridesmaid years later. Funny old world.)
Right around the same time I was also placed as a work-study student in the library (assistant to the head of library’s PA, so effectively a gopher, file clerk, write-up-the-head-librarian’s-love-letters-to-the-guy-she-was-seeing-at-conferences, &c.)
Graders/TAs still exist as I have such minions currently assisting me. I’m sure there are still work-study gophers/transcriptionists in the library.
First real full time job was university lecturing. I’m not at that university anymore, but most of the classes I taught are still on the books and taught by other staff.
Strangely, I designed and wrote a number of modules currently on the books at my now-uni about three years or so before I started to teach here (as an outside contractor; they were in the process of creating a new major, I knew the head of department, and he asked if I could knock together some modules dedicated to this new pathway so that they’d have something to present in the validation process. Couple years later when the programme was about to launch, they realised they had all of these fab modules on the books, students signed up to take them, but no one to teach them. That was an interesting email to get at 5am one morning…)
My first job was a school holiday shop assistant job in a deli and that job still exists. My first job after leaving school, however, was a Girl Friday. I’m pretty sure that job and its successor, stenographer, have been confined to the occupational dustbin of history.
Yes - they still have admins at Prudential in the group insurance area.
One of my first actuarial roles was in the group life area at Prudential (the UK-based one, not the American one).
No. My first real job was as a clerk in the Texas Department of Public Safety Driver’s License division. I had to take fax or phone requests for DL records lookup, soundex the person’s name, then go find their record folder in a massive room full of paper files. It has all been computerized now and that room has been turned into a bunch of offices.
Computer salesman? Yep.
Computer salesman at a privately-owned store, rather than a big-box chain? Not so much.
My first full-time job was working in a factory that made resistors and capacitors. I am pretty sure that the company, Mepco, is either out of business or absorbed long ago by another company. I don’t know whether or not there are products that still use resistors and capacitors.
Yes. I worked counter in a wrecking yard. The wrecking yard is still there, umpty-mumble years later. Owner was an asshole (fired me after a month for not having the entire yard’s inventory in my memory), brother was insane (routinely drove around/through rail crossing arms with the train in sight - did it once and once only with me in the truck).
However, my entire middle career is with phantom companies. Spent a couple of years in “desktop publishing” - which no longer exists as an industry. Spent almost ten years in an IT industry that grew from 50 to 500 players while I was in it, dropped to about 20 the year after, then 3, and now is an integral part of Cisco, 3Com et al. - basically no longer exists as a separate industry.
I was a soda jerk in a drugstore sixty years ago. I haven’t seen a drug store with a soda fountain in decades.
My next job was a stock boy in an auto parts store and I am sure that job still exists. Then I was a lab tech in a biochem research lab and that sort of thing has doubtless multiplied.
After that, TA, then instructor, asst prof., assoc. prof., full prof., named prof., all teaching math at all levels and those certainly exist.
Now I am retired and that job still exists too.
If we define ‘real job’ as one where you received a paycheck with withholdings, then my first ‘real job’ was as a bottle boy at the local market. That was when we had bottles of Coke or other such products that were reusable. My job was to take the empty bottles from the front of the store to a shed out back. I cleaned them and them packed them into amazingly dangerous high stacks of crates of glass bottles.
So, no. This isn’t 1974.
Waitress so yes, although I’m fairly sure the restaurant is gone.
As careers, yes, they all exist. But as jobs they don’t. All 4 companies I’ve worked for before going freelance have ceased to exist.
Worked at a pet store cleaning out cages and feeding the animals. As long as gerbils still eat and poop, I think the job will be there.
Babysitting - yes, and it pays a lot better now too. But I don’t think they still let 12-year-olds do it.
Newspaper delivery - going the way of the milkman. My current neighborhood does not have any, but I have friends who still do.
Well, I did get paid hourly to mow grass when I was around 10. No withholding or anything.
Worked in a TV repair shop. That’s pretty much gone I’m sure.
Gas station attendant. Won’t see that in Colorado anymore.
I hand painted oil and gas maps. Some of them took weeks to do. Now a plotter can spit 'em out in about 20 seconds.
Ink on mylar draftsman for a couple of different companies. That’s long gone.