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Obsolete Occupation
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Not to say that the job market is good, but usually no matter what your occupation is, there's someone out there who needs it. Then you've got the character with the Obsolete Occupation. In most circumstances, their occupation would be pretty useful, but in theirs, not so much. Maybe the relevant technology is obsolete now, hasn't been invented yet, or simply doesn't function in a way that needs those services. Why they don't just find another job isn't always addressed. Maybe they feel they were Born in the Wrong Century. This can also come up in a post-apocalypse setting. Many modern jobs depend on a certain level of technology and/or infrastructure. If Apocalypse How means there's no one left who can operate a power plant, a computer programmer will have a great deal of knowledge and no use for it. Compare to Obsolete Mentor (whose skills, rather than their profession, are obsolete), The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything (who simply don't bother with performing their job), and A Degree in Useless. If a job has become obsolete as a result of technological process and automation, see Job-Stealing Robot. Often the case with robots in the case of Humanity's Wake, leading to Unfulfilled Purpose Misery. May also include a heavy dose of Ludd Was Right. Related to Lightspeed Leapfrog (space explorers on a Sleeper Ship discover that FTL has been invented while they were out, making them useless). See also Expert in Underwater Basket Weaving, when the skill never had any practical use in the first place. |
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Watchmen: Hollis Mason retires from the superhero business so he can dedicate himself to repairing cars — only to find out that Dr. Manhattan can use his superpowers to synthesize massive quantities of lithium for batteries in electric cars, rendering the internal combustion engine obsolete. When the story opens, Mason is managing an auto repair shop specializing in vintage cars, which is fast going out of business. Jon Osterman (Dr. Manhattan) was going to follow his father in the watch repair business until his father read about the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Osterman Sr. decided then and there that watch repair is an obsolete profession and insisted that his son go into something with a future. Ironically, after Osterman loses his humanity, he decides to become a Celestial Watchmaker (i.e., a god to some people he's going to go create). |
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Gone has pretty much the exact computer programmer example mentioned in the description - Jack is an expert at computers (though it's not his job, given that he is a kid like everyone else), in a Domed Hometown shut off from any possible internet access. He almost manages to get the internet working anyway until the event of the second book leads to the local power plant failing, making his job completely useless as everyone's computers just slowly run out of battery. | |
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Glove and Boots: Discussed in the episode "Top 10 reasons why Time Travelling is no good" when Fafa points out how you can't get a job in the past or future with your current job skills. Then Mario goes on to provide an example. | |
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One episode of New Amsterdam (2018) sees Max searching through the hospital's staff to locate employees whose jobs have become outdated, promising to reassign anyone who comes forward. | |
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In The Backyardigans' double-length episode "Robot Rampage", Austin plays a robot repairman... in a city filled with robots... that explicitly never, ever break. The first musical number of the episode is about Austin lamenting the situation. | |
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations: One of the witnesses in "Recipe for Turnabout" is Victor Kudo, the last of a family of kimono embroiderers due to kimonos either falling out of fashion (in the Japanese version) or never being in fashion to begin with (in the US version). | |
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Freefall: The Corrupt Corporate Executive Kornada was Kicked Upstairs to Vice President of Paper Clip Allocation... for a paperless company, on a partly-Terraformed planet where organic materials like paper are extremely rare. It still results in a disastrous Reassignment Backfire. | |
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Discworld: The Light Fantastic: Rincewind advises Twoflower not to explain how his almanac works to druids who've spent years creating a calendar out of giant lumps of rock, because they probably wouldn't take it well. In Feet of Clay, Colon has a conversation with a former wick-dipper for Carry's Candles, now redundant due to a golem that makes more candles than Mr Carry knows what to do with. In The Truth, after Goodmountain brings movable type to Ankh-Morpork, and he and William de Worde create the Disc's first newspaper, the Guild of Engravers and Guild of Town-Criers are both unhappy that their jobs are threatened. (The engravers adapt to the new normal by becoming the Guild of Engravers and Printers, and according to Mrs Bradshaw's Guidebook, the coming of the railway in Raising Steam means the town-criers also find a new niche doing station announcements.) |
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A Million Adventures: Alice meets a chimney sweeper who complains he had to spend the last eighteen years training mountain climbers - not a single working chimney is left on Earth. | |
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The Light Fantastic: Rincewind advises Twoflower not to explain how his almanac works to druids who've spent years creating a calendar out of giant lumps of rock, because they probably wouldn't take it well. | |
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Scootertrix the Abridged: Rarity runs a boutique selling pony clothes that she designs and sews herself. Unlike in the original show, it's an explicit plot point in Episode 20 that Rarity's business is struggling because the vast majority of ponies don't wear clothes. However, she's able to create demand (and save her business) by arranging a photoshoot of her friend Fluttershy modeling several of her dresses. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959): "The Obsolete Man": Romney Wordsworth is a librarian in a dystopic future that bans books. Anyone "Obsolete" is sentenced to death, which sparks the plot. "The Brain Center at Whipple's" has an entire factory's worth of workers declared outdated as the titular Whipple outfits his factory with ever-increasing amounts of automation until Whipple finds himself replaced by Robbie the Robot. |
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In The Order of the Stick, the unnamed Shadowdancer has this problem. His class's special ability allows him to teleport between shadows, but because his universe is a stick-figure webcomic, shadows are only drawn when they'd be dramatically appropriate. Right after arguing with Redaxe about this, they are both caught in an explosion. Luckily for them, the explosion is dramatic enough to cast shadows, so the Shadowdancer is able to teleport them both to safety. | |
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Schlock Mercenary: Computers are officially not allowed on one planet under the Bureaucratic Employment Protection Act. Breya, who has better things to do than hand-sign 300 identical pages, gets Ennesby to sign them and gets Schlock to silence any protests. | |
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Subverted in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - the inhabitants of Golgafrincham believed that telephone sanitization was a useless profession and exiled all of their telephone sanitizers, only to be wiped out by an infection contracted from a dirty telephone. | |
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One xkcd strip has Cueball in his role as "guy who knows about computers" explaining to his friend the weird reason Windows isn't working and the equally bizarre way of fixing it. The caption says he can't wait for this job to become obsolete. | |
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In the Worldwar series, the Race's empire has been unified for millennia, so not only are most military professions obsolete there (aside from those sent in the conquest fleet against Earth) but so are jobs like ambassador and interpreter (as their empire's political unification also resulted in linguistic unification). | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look: One sketch featured a stone chiseler worried about the upcoming Bronze Age. | |
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However, this is later subverted in Jurassic Park III, in which Alan declares that the Jurassic Park dinosaurs are "theme park monsters" that contribute nothing to genuine paleontology. Jurassic World Dominion shows that Alan and Ellie are still in paleontology and are consulted on both fossilized organisms and their de-extincted living clones. | |
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The Flintstones: In "Arthur Quarry's Dance Class", Fred and Barney join Joe Rockhead's volunteer fire department. Joe admitted that there was no need for an FD in Bedrock since there was nothing to burn in a community where everything is made of stone. But by staging alarm drills in the evenings, the guys were free to go bowling, play pool, etc. | |
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In Frozen (2013), Elsa's sudden winter puts Kristoff, an ice harvester, in quite a bind. | |
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City-Building Series: Once a city's economy is up and running, a lot of jobs become pointless as they're only meant to keep the unemployment statistic down rather than massively increase production (which in turn would require huge amounts of storage space), as trade is restricted to a certain amount of goods per year. It's actually a much easier problem to deal with than the feedback loop of a Critical Staffing Shortage (lack of workers means fewer services, meaning housing devolves, meaning fewer workers, meaning...). In Pharaoh, construction guilds (stonecarvers, bricklayers, carpenters, etc.) disappear from the build list once all monument work is complete. Fortunately, work camps are always available since they also provide floodplain farm workers and can be used to provide lots of jobs in a relatively small space. Zeus: Master of Olympus lets you choose when to muster troops, towers, and ships or demobilize them. This reduces unemployment even if there's no enemy to fight. |
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30 Rock: Jack once asked Liz (a TV writer) what use she would be in a post-apocalyptic world. She said "traveling bard", he came back with "radiation canary". | |
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According to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, The Ministry of Magic in the Harry Potter universe maintains a Centaur Liaison Office that no centaur has ever used on account of their inherent mistrust of humans. As a result, "Being sent to the Centaur Office" has become a euphemism amongst ministry employees for being sacked. | |
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World War Z: After the Zombie Apocalypse, the United States government classify several professions such as lawyers and entertainers as F-6, to be retrained. | |
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Animorphs: Rachel's mom is a lawyer, and once she's kidnapped from her house and left in safety in the Hork-Bajir colony, she starts drafting up laws and constitutions for them. Unfortunately, the Hork-Bajir have no need for such things because they operate on the level of small children, looking to the seers for guidance. | |
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Undertale: You meet Papyrus, a skeleton whose dream is to become the Leader of the Royal Guard. In one of the endings he indeed becomes the Leader, after the previous leader and the queen decide to disband the whole royal guard, making his position pointless. He doesn't seem to catch on to this, so he is still happy. | |
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The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: In "Fundemonium", Jimmy's father said that he planned to move the family to another city. He explained that this is because he is a car salesman, but everybody in town already has a car, so he has no customers. | |
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The "extinct" line in Jurassic Park (see above) was a reference to stop motion animator Phil Tippett calling himself "extinct" when he found out that the dinosaurs were going to be created with CGI. However, Tippett was kept on as a consultant, leading to his memetic "dinosaur supervisor" credit. After Jurassic Park, his company, Tippett Studio, changed its specialty from stop-motion to CGI. | |
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In Pharaoh, construction guilds (stonecarvers, bricklayers, carpenters, etc.) disappear from the build list once all monument work is complete. Fortunately, work camps are always available since they also provide floodplain farm workers and can be used to provide lots of jobs in a relatively small space. | |
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In The Truth, after Goodmountain brings movable type to Ankh-Morpork, and he and William de Worde create the Disc's first newspaper, the Guild of Engravers and Guild of Town-Criers are both unhappy that their jobs are threatened. (The engravers adapt to the new normal by becoming the Guild of Engravers and Printers, and according to Mrs Bradshaw's Guidebook, the coming of the railway in Raising Steam means the town-criers also find a new niche doing station announcements.) | |
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The Sound of Music: Captain Georg von Trapp (as in real life) was a celebrated submarine captain of the Austro-Hungarian imperial navy, but at the time of the film Austria is a landlocked country, causing his retirement. When Nazi Germany annexes Austria they offer him a commission in the German navy but he refuses on principle. | |
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In Feet of Clay, Colon has a conversation with a former wick-dipper for Carry's Candles, now redundant due to a golem that makes more candles than Mr Carry knows what to do with. | |
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In The Android's Dream, Dirk Moeller's father was a butcher at a time when science had perfected synthetic meat, thus rendering him nearly obsolete. | |
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Tales of the Questor: Quentyn is the first Questor (a ranger for hire, basically) in Freeman Downs in a century; cultural and technological advances have made the position obsolete. | |
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Children of Men: One of Theo's companions, Miriam, used to be a maternity nurse before people stopped having children. Naturally, she had plenty of time on her hands afterwards, and with her past experience, became a natural candidate to help shepherd Kee, the world's last known fertile girl, to the Human Project. | |
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Jurassic Park: In the original Jurassic Park, Alan Grant muses on what the creation of cloned dinosaurs means for his field of paleontology: However, this is later subverted in Jurassic Park III, in which Alan declares that the Jurassic Park dinosaurs are "theme park monsters" that contribute nothing to genuine paleontology. Jurassic World Dominion shows that Alan and Ellie are still in paleontology and are consulted on both fossilized organisms and their de-extincted living clones. |
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Zeus: Master of Olympus lets you choose when to muster troops, towers, and ships or demobilize them. This reduces unemployment even if there's no enemy to fight. | |
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Quest for Glory IV: Played for Laughs. A minor character named Ivan is a professional elephant herder... but the game is set in Mordavia, a wooded mountain valley smack in the middle of the Ãœberwald. According to Ivan, at least, elephants were once endemic to Mordavia, but have migrated away during his lifetime due to supernatural calamities plaguing the valley. Once the curse on the valley is lifted, he mentions getting some elephants in "for old time's sake". | |
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In Superman Family #200, a story set in the then distant future of 2000 has the owner/operator of "Miller's New Cars" who has sold exactly one of his gasoline-powered automobiles in the last year; everyone else drives the new electrics. (And the buyer turns out to be someone who hates all modern things.) | |
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The Tale of Two Bad Mice features two sentient dolls named Jane and Lucinda. It notes that Jane was allegedly the cook, but she never got a chance to do any cooking, since the dollhouse came with toy food, and they never needed to eat it (being wooden dolls) anyway. | |
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Shark Tale: One of the places in the city that the movie briefly focuses on is a sushi restaurant that doesn't get any customers since most of the citizens are fish. | |
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American Gods: Shadow goes to work for Mr. Wednesday, an American aspect of the Norse god Odin, and discovers an entire subculture of ancient gods living in America. Brought over by various immigrants who eventually stopped believing in them, the gods now scrape by with mostly regular jobs. | |
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Dragons: Riders of Berk: Gobber finds himself out of work now that he doesn't have to make dragon-killing weapons anymore. He eventually takes up a job as a dentist. | |
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ElfQuest: Winnowill was a healer who went insane because, among other things, her people became so safe that she had no purpose anymore. | |
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Other People's Money: Discussed. "You know, at one time there must've been dozens of companies making buggy whips. And I'll bet the last company around was the one that made the best goddamn buggy whip you ever saw." | |
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Babylon 5 recounts the story of the guarded flower from Mythology and Folklore in the episode "A Tragedy of Telepaths" but with an in-universe event where Londo was the one who discovered the pointless sentry. | |
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Jessie's father in Running Out of Time is a talented blacksmith in the mid-1990s, an era where there is literally no use for one outside historical recreation villages like Clifton. This is why he's so keen to uphold The Masquerade of the village still being in the 1840s; he's afraid of losing his source of identity. | |
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Dragonriders of Pern: The foundation of Pernese society, the dragons and the weyr system, was developed to fight the fall of Thread. In All the Weyrs of Pern, the dragonriders alter the course of a satellite to permanently end the fall of Thread, and spend the next book (The Skies of Pern) trying to figure out how to cope with their self-inflicted obsolescence. | |
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In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Neutral Zone", a 20th-century financier is awakened to find that his profession is worthless in the Federation's post-scarcity economy. Subverted in the Star Trek Expanded Universe novels, in which he has become the ambassador to the Ferengi (who appreciate his financial savvy), and later on becomes the Federation Secretary of Commerce. | |
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An interesting variation in Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein: full citizenship rights are only granted to those who serve the Federation, but everyone has the right to serve if they so choose. Contrary to popular belief, "federal service" isn't restricted to military service, as various civilian jobs also count, and the government is required to find duties every applicant can physically perform and allow them a reasonable opportunity to earn their citizenship, even if it's something as pointless as having a blind person "count the fuzz on a caterpillar by touch." | |
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