No, he’s a porn star who specializes in elevator-sex fetsihes and is the only one in his field with the stamina for a 12,000 storey scene.
Ooookay. Makes much more sense.
No, but I do try to make them not fall over prematurely.
I like your story better, but I don’t think I could repeat it with a straight face.
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If for some reason oil was suddenly not valuable at all anymore, so perhaps the discovery or invention of an abundant alternative energy source that is economically implemented quickly, would end my current job of seismic data analysis.
Even a gradual change from reliance on oil might end my job as I’m not strictly speaking one of the most necessary people to keep around.
I work for a life insurance company. If we ever figure out that immortality thing I might be in trouble.
Either way, I think you won the Coolest Job Here Award™.
All plants die. I wouldn’t be alive for to long after to miss the job.
I work in material testing, mostly for the automobile industry. Basically, it would take a major economic collapse that causes all the major automakers to go out of business.
Then again, business would probably pick up again once World War III began…
I’m an emergency medicine doctor. The complete elimination of humans would make my job obsolete.
Rocket/aerospace engineer? I have been trying to figure out your profession for a while now.
Apart from energy, oil is used for manufacturing many things, correct?
A car’s just a machine that transports a few tires, a few people, and some cargo from place to place.
An airplane’s just a machine that transports a couple wings, a few people, and some cargo from place to place.
If we didn’t need to move tires, wings, people, and cargo from place to place, I think I’d have to change my area of professional interest and ability.
If people and businesses decided that “lowest first cost” mattered even more than it already does and that “running costs”, “durability”, and “vehicle dynamics” mattered a lot less, then I don’t think I’d have as much work - though it might be interesting to try to knock the part count down…
Same here. I’m in marketing/communications. At the moment, I’m doing social media marketing. If the internet went away, I could fall back on print.
I’m a software developer. I write code and gather requirements from users.
If an EMP or natural event took out all electrical stuff or at least computers, I wouldn’t be able to do my job
If artificial intelligence got to the point of being able to do its own programming and be able to answer requests from users, I would be out of a job
I can see the first possibly happening in my lifetime, but the second is going to take awhile and I’ll be retired in a few years anyway, so I’m not worried about the latter.
If something like either of the above does happen, hopefully I can transfer my thinking skills over to something else.
Statistician here. Going in one direction, true AI would kill my profession. In the other, the collapse of Western civilization would do the same, regardless of how it came about.
The potential demise of my racket doesn’t keep me up nights. 
I too used to be a nurse. If the world as we know it ends, I will still have a skill in demand.
I’m retired but I guess an attractive job offer would make that obsolete.
Before I retired I worked in a prison. So if somebody invented a cure for crime I would have been out of work.
It took a while, but 9/11 was the catalyst for eliminating my department/profession. The technology had existed since the early 80s but 9/11 (specifically the grounding of air traffic at the time) is what drove the banking industry to adopt it.
This fascinates me.
WTF department was that?
Check processing. Banks always used large equipment to sort checks by routing number (those funny-looking digital numbers along the bottom called MICR). You sort it by bank or area of country or whatever, then bag them up and fly/truck/mail them back to the bank of origin. There were whole airlines that did nothing but fly checks, couriers that ran them from bank to bank, check clearing houses, and it was a large part of what the Federal Reserve did. This rigamarole is why it took days for a check to clear. We had people to received the checks, sort/process the checks, and ship the checks.
In 1980, IBM released equipment that would take a digital image of the check, front and back, and said “Hey, why not just send an image directly to the bank of origin, make it a point to point process?” People predicted the end of check proc then, but nobody wanted to shell out the money for the equipment, and the tech languished.
On 9/11, nationwide check processing was ground to a halt by the lack of air traffic. It was seen as a huge vulnerability in the financial industry, and check imaging was re-visited. First everyone converted our equipment to digital capture instead of sorting, but within 5 years they were using desktop scanners in the branches and at businesses, and now people can do it on their smartphones.
Our dept. used to receive/process/ship about 12m checks a day using over 100 employees. Now, one person scans what few actual checks they get in about 15 minutes with a desktop scanner. An entire dept. turned into an afterthought.
To eliminate my job, all parents would need to remain together until their child(ren) emancipate.
I’m not worried.