Jobs Then 1
This career was the most common in the 1800s.
What is farmer?
Many jobs in the 1800's involved caring for and housing this animal?
What is a horse?
The most common job in America is a retail salesperson, also know as this.
What is a clerk/cashier?
The number of jobs in this industry has greatly increased over the last generation.
What is tech?
Many Americans fear their jobs will be taken by this technology?
What is A. I. (artificial intelligence)?
This common career involved using heat to work iron into tools.
What is a blacksmith?
Uber?? Drivers would transport people and goods in these wooden vehicles.
What are wagons?
Many Americans first job is at a restaurant serving this type of food.
What is fast food?
Fulltime employees are entitled to overtime pay if they work over this many hours in a week.
What is 40 hours?
Jobs will increasingly require workers to know this language, which 30% of the American population is expected to speak by 2030.
What is Spanish?
Before phones, operators sent and decoded electrical impulses of different lengths on these machines.
telegraph machines
fax machines
rotary phones
Want the latest pair of Jordans? This was who you went to for new kicks in the 1800's.
tanner
smithy
cobbler
This type of doctor, who performs operations, is the highest paying career in America.
optometrist
cardiologist
surgeon
According to the federal government, this is the youngest age a person can legally work in America.
14 years old
12 years old
16 years old
The number of Americans attempting this YouTube career is expected to increase in the coming decades.
What is a vlogger?
If you wanted a cold beer after a hard day's work, you would go to this establishment associated with the wild west.
Cantina
Saloon
Beer Garden
When you wanted new threads, forget TJ Maxx. Instead you would go to this person for custom made clothing.
tailor
seamstress
laundress
About 10% of Americans are members of these organizations, in which employees band together to demand higher wages and better treatment.
unions
trade federations
monopolies
At this age, Americans traditionally retire and begin collecting Social Security payments.
75 years old
62 years old
56 years old
By 2025, nearly 70% of work will be done this way.
What is virtual/remotely?
This term referred to a person who read a newspaper out loud to people on the street.
bigmouth
newspaper crier
gazette gobbler
Instead of power washing (or even regular washing), building in the 1800's would be "cleaned" using this method?
sand storming (rubbing with grains of sand)
spit shining (wiping with saliva and a rag)
white washing (repainting with white paint)
These types of jobs, involving the production of goods, were among the most common in America fifty years ago, but have steadily declined and been moved overseas.
service jobs
engineering jobs
factory/manufacturing jobs
The average American will have this many jobs in their lifetime?
12 - 15
1 - 4
7 - 9
This term refers to a point in the future when humans will merge with technology, eliminating the need for most jobs.
the void
the plurality
the singularity