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posted by janrinok on Friday November 06 2015, @05:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the keep-on-truckin' dept.

The animated graphic from NPR shows how the economy has changed over time. Interesting how jobs have shifted from production to services and distribution. "Peak Secretary" seems to have occurred in the mid 80's.


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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by RedBear on Friday November 06 2015, @06:13AM

    by RedBear (1734) on Friday November 06 2015, @06:13AM (#259318)

    They seem to default to truck driver for long periods of times before there were any significant amount of truck traffic. Or roads.
    And truck drivers were never a significant percentage of any of the state's I'm familiar with where as farmers, loggers construction workers, and industrial workers were.
    Washington state has huge numbers of years where truck drivers were the top job?

    Are you thinking only of long-haul truckers? The actual category is "Truck, delivery and tractor drivers", which would seem to cover many of the jobs available in every job category you mentioned. And most of the roads we have were built in the early 20th century. So as usual I don't know exactly what you're on about. Do you have any counter evidence showing why the data from the graphic is "not believable"? Even today, millions of people need to be operating some kind of transport or delivery vehicle every single day in order for our society to function. Transportation of goods on a massive scale is the backbone of a developed society. I don't know why it would be surprising that it would be one of the most common jobs.

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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday November 06 2015, @06:55PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday November 06 2015, @06:55PM (#259591) Journal

    I don't know why it would be surprising that it would be one of the most common jobs.
     
    Washington State has the 9'th AND the 4'th busiest port in the US! (Seattle and Tacoma)
     
        Of course there is going to be a lot of cargo/transport jobs.
     
      reference [nreionline.com]