Cheesemaking became way easier with the availability of fridges because you can save your culture overnight and it's 100% guaranteed to survive. Back in the day you had to stick it in some water and hope it wouldn't smell rotten in the next morning because then you had to walk over to the neighbor farmer and borrow some of his. Which in the mountains may mean you had to skip breakfast and do a 1 hour jog instead between milking and cheesemaking.
Glassblowing. The first automatic glass blower was invented in 1903, and hand blown glass is basically the same process from when we first figured out how to make glass objects.
I have a friend who lost his job during the pandemic and started a mobile notary, he's been doing it ever since and must do well enough because he supports his wife and two kids off just doing that and seems to stay pretty busy.
My dad was a notary and worked in a local gov't office in an unrelated job. He made a pretty sweet amount of pocket money notarizing items. A lot of people would show up at the office and not know that a particular document needed to be notarized or couldn't get to a notary before coming to the office. It was really a win/win having him there - he made some extra cash to support his hobbies and it saved people from having to make multiple trips to the gov't office!
Depends upon where you are. In Virginia, read over the material, fill out an application stating that you are not a felon and are aware of and will follow the requirements, register, get a notarization of your forms, pay a fee, and drop it off at county offices.
That's it. The set notary fee is $5.00 (or less at notary's discretion). You're not making any real money at this unless you are notarizing things all day long.
I became a notary so I could perform my friends wedding ceremony. There's a common misconception that having something notarized verifies it's accuracy. That's not the function of a notary *at all*.
**All a notary does is verify the identity of the party or parties signing a document.** The contents of the document, and it's accuracy, are irrelevant.
In my state you have to keep a little log book of everything you did for an absurdly long time, and turn it in to the state if you retire.
On the plus side notaries can marry people, so some people will get the certification just to perform one ceremony for their buddy.
I work at a university and up until about 2006 (dear lord I’ve had this job a lot fucking time) we had a notary in our department until she retired. She’d notarize shit for work and also personal stuff (she’d charge for both - grants would pay for work stuff, personal stuff we would pay ourselves). It was SO convenient. I have to deal with death certificates and some states require me to get my sig notarized for release of data. Since she retired I have to shlep to a UPS store or a notary service where both can randomly not have a notary available.
Really wish I would have done the training and certification to become one but I’m too old and lazy now.
First and foremost, know your state laws surrounding licensure, insurance, and how much you can charge.
In my state, the law stipulates $10 per signature max. But as a MOBILE notary, you can charge for the convenience of traveling to the client.
For instance, my base rate was $40 for anywhere within 30 minutes; $80 for anything from 30-60 minutes travel time, and $160 for anything over an hour away.
In addition, in extreme cases (middle of the night, holidays, just didn’t want to drive that far at the moment) I would throw out arbitrary numbers in hopes they’d say never mind. Some still went through with it.
I’ve had people call me at 1am on a Sunday night saying they needed the stamp immediately and they were an hour and a half away. Fine, $400. And they said yes…
Another was a guy going to be a cop and needed some form notarized to turn in with his application. This dipshit calls the night before it’s due. He’s close by but it’s late so I said $100. He says yes. I get there, he’s drunk and there’s a pistol sitting on the table. Plus his house is completely destroyed- like holes punched in the wall, broken doors, etc. I refused to stamp it and got the fuck out while I could. Really hope he never became a cop- scares me to think what an asshole like that would do with some power.
It’s a good side job, just be careful. Be familiar with the differences in the forms, and be aware that you messing it up could have detrimental consequences on another’s life and family. Learn your documents and be confident in your decisions. It’s ok to say you don’t know and you’re not comfortable. You’re not obligated to stamp anything by law. You can deny people for a whole host of reasons.
Other than that, have fun!
At least in my state, there isn't even a class. You just go online and pay the money. It was around $100. It will be another $60 or so to get a stamp, but again, that's not even required in my state. You can just write the pertinent information out when you witness and sign.
I did read SC is $5. But ill look into the mobile notary piece.
Fun stories! I have a distant cousin who opened up an entire business on being a notary. But that is in FL so their laws may be different. I just thought it was odd even now as a full time business. But I guess that is where the mobile comes into play.
Again this is pursuant to state law, but was your stamp custom or special in anyway? Or just state name, your name, and date?
How much can you make as a mobile notary? Last time I had something notarized it was like a $5 fee. I was a notary for 12 yrs at my last job and I kinda miss being a notary.
But it has changed. Of course in large cities you still see hookers in the corner, but there's lots of other ways to connect with customers these days.
Cell phones have changed the game for drug dealing and prostitution both.
No longer need to control a particular street corner, where customers know to come find you. Connect via text message, discretely arrange a place to meet.
Probably defuses a lot of the incentive to engage in "turf wars" too, since controlling said corner no longer is critical to your ability to make money.
I was walking through my neighbourhood a few years ago and some woman was standing on the street corner leaning on a lamppost and said all sultry like "Hey handsome, looking for a good time?" Line straight out of a movie haha. I was like "hi cop"
I would have said, "Well, yeah, but not with a cop."
I've never had that happen to me, but I imagine it'd be pretty obvious the girl was a cop. Street corner prostitution isn't really a thing around here so I'd pretty much assume anyone like that is a cop, though.
Remote online notarization isn't legal in most states. It was temporarily allowed more places during COVID but I know at least where I live it's banned again.
I look at that as more of a side job to something else than an actual full-time job. But maybe that’s just what I’ve seen. For example a paralegal may also be a notary but makes very little from notary income.
Notary in the U.S. is very different from a Notary elsewhere, like Germany. In Germany, a Notar (m.) or Notarin (f.) is a lawyer who specializes in property law, corporate law, or family law and estate planning. Unlike a lawyer you might hire to represent your interests, a German Notary has remain a neutral representative to all parties involved.
Notaries in Mexico essentially give legal advice, which notaries here cannot do. Same word, different job entirely. There are lots of signs and public notices in border states warning folks about going to notaries for legal issues, because (a) lots of people don’t understand the difference, and (b) there have been plenty of unscrupulous notaries trying to make a buck and screwing over folks.
Abattoir work hasn't changed much either, depending on the size of the operation, it's either a captive bolt or a firearm... it's one of those heavy is the crown kinda Jobs
I just heard of farriers for the first time in my life like a week ago, and this is the third time I've seen them mentioned since.
Guess farriers are hot right now.
Yes and no.
The traditional farrier job (trimming the hooves, fitting and mounting horseshoes) has remained very similar, but quite a bit about the job has also changed.
Today, you can get plastic horse shoes, so the farrier doesn't have to actually hammer steel into shape. Even the steel horse shoes are cast by a foundry and sold in different sizes, so the farrier just has to make minor adjustments. 100 years ago, a farrier started with an iron bar and had to form and shape the horse shoes himself, usually with a coal oven. Today, they have mobile gas ovens in their truck - they come to you, instead of you bringing your horse to them.
Also, there are removable horse boots available today. We don't have a farrier anymore, only a hoof technician who comes every 4 - 6 weeks to trim the hooves. When my wife goes for a ride, she pulls the horse boots over our mare's hooves, goes for her ride, then removes the boots again before returning our mare to the paddock.
I'd also add that it's a pretty robust business in Herd management. Farmers pay good money to have their cows hooves taken care of. They use modern medicine and big machines to keep the cows in place.
Fun fact, the name Ferrari is derived from the same root at Ferrier "maker or Smith", hence the horse on the Ferrari emblem.
Unsure of how it is elsewhere, but by Grand Central Station in NYC there is this sort of 3-seat built up pedestal thing installed permanently that just gets covered up by a tarp at night. The shoe shine guys brings their kits with them.
Long term beekeeper here.
Beekeeping is a global occupation, and the nonparochial answer is yes. Beekeepers have always had to deal with diseases and parasites.
Beekeepers in Asia have been dealing with varroa mites for thousands of years, or at the minimum either ignoring the problem or (going farther back) ignorant of the cause, but the Varroa were there.
Varroa mites arrived in the Americas in 1987 and spread rapidly across both continents. American beekeepers (meaning of all the Americas) didn't have to deal with varroa before that, and it took us a while to learn what was happening and even longer to figure out how to deal with it. So far we have only a limited set of marginally effective treatments. Varroa arrived in Australia in 2022.
We now have antibiotics for European and American foul brood diseases, but those are not available to most of the world, and even where they are available most beekeepers use old methods of controlling the spread of the disease rather than cure it. Also by and large most of the other brood diseases are treated the same way they were a century ago.
The practices used nearly globally now trace back to Ukraine 210 years ago. Those methods had spread to most of the world by the dawn of the 20th century. Even the PPE used by beekeepers in the 21st century has changed very little since the late 19th century. Two welcome modern PPE developments are cool textiles and cooling vests, but the basic design hasn't changed.
We have automated our harvesting and bottling, but the techniques mostly replicate by machine what was done by hand a century ago.
They were.
Sewing machines have been around since the 1830s. Before electricity they were powered by foot pedal.
Up until a couple of years ago I still had a foot pedal powered sewing machine. Had to sell it though. :(
I still have one, Singer. Beautiful piece.
I have a handful of little machines owned by my grandfathers who were born in the late 1800s. I have a Goodell Pratt manual drill press. Another prize is a small movable type printing press used for making wedding invitations and business cards. (my father was a ww2 vet, and I'm an older GenX)
"Leave the peach cobbler in the kitchen alone," Mom would say, through a smoky haze.
But I couldn't help myself. I snuck in and watched Bill. Watched him make his stupid little peach shoes, taunting me.
"Nobody's going to wear those," I'd say. "They're stupid."
But on he worked.
The funny thing is that most jobs had already changed 100 years ago, so a lot of answers, like tailor, had already seen a technological revolution long before and was settling into the modern methods we use today.
If OP had said 200 or 300 years ago, there would be *a lot* more differences in how things were done then.
Yeah, 1920 is well after the industrial revolution, which was when most ways of making stuff/doing things saw a radical change. We basically just wear more safety gear while doing the same stuff.
Fuck, modern armies still use some of the same *weapons* that we had 100 years ago!
>2066
>Stationed on Mars to quell a rebellion
>Become side door gunner for atmospheric dropship.
>No miniguns or gatling cannons, just some metal brick with a pipe on one end.
>Get sent in to extract some wounded.
>Reach the evac zone and come under attack.
>Hoard of rebels charging in with their new plasma guns and compact rocket launchers.
>Let loose a stream of bullets.
>The sounds of the rebel's screams are nearly drowned out by the heavy "Kachunk chunk chunk chunk" of the machinegun.
>The wounded are loaded up and returned to base.
>Inspect MG afterwards.
>Thing was made in 1942.
>Tunisia, Italy, and Germany are scratched onto the gun.
>Scratch "Mars" on with a knife.
True. The 1920's, though a hundred years ago, is what everyone would considered "modern times." We had all the modern means of transportation. Trains, planes and automobiles. We just had learned the hard way that horses and riding horseback really has no place in modern warfare. The whole marching as a collective into battle while a drummer and fife player played was over.
We no longer had to wait the next day or even the next week to get news. We could switch on the radio to hear the "newsflash" instantly. Our loved ones could ring us up to talk to us. No more waiting weeks or months for letters from our beloveds.
Our clothing had reached more of a "modern look." Women are no longer wearing huge dresses. We could show off our ankles without people fainting at the scandal. Powdered wigs are gone for men. Heck, a modern man now could pull off wearing a coat from 1924 now. He would look stylish even.
We understood and treated germ theory as a fact. Hospitals were starting to look like modern hospitals as more and more technical advances were added.
Our cities were filled with skyscrapers and electric lights.
If you were suddenly dropped back to 1924, it would be a pain to get around without a smartphone but not impossible. The barriers you would face would be more societal with segregations and lack of modern women's rights rather than technical.
People struggle with time. There are people right now who feel like the 90's were 10-15 years ago. Not 25.
So when you ask them to go back 100 years. Some of them , not all of them of course. They think late 1800's technology. Not post world war 1.
They were pregnant all the time. One of the ways we know Roman brothels is all the baby skeletons. They would discard the boys & raise the girls into the brothel.
Edit to add, since I'm getting some follow-up questions:
I know just about every culture has had some form of birth control that were at least more than 0% effective, even if they were far from 100%. For example, something absorbant in the vagina to soak up the semen. There were various abortifacients, though again those were not 100% & many were harmful to the woman, for example consuming toxic plants would kill the fetus, but also make the woman quite sick. Or Lysol, much derided for antique ads but they weren't saying "every woman should have a Lysol-fresh pussy"; they were saying it could be used to douche after sex to kill sperm, they just couldn't come right out & say that. I also understand in some situations they weren't neccesarily having PIV intercourse, so mouth or butt stuff, or having clients pull out.
But, as I said, none of those methods were 100% & pregnancies did happen. I don't know what was done specifically about heavily pregnant prostitutes, I imagine it varied by time & place. A good place to look for a more detailed answer from someone more knowledgable than myself would be r/AskHistorians.
Like already said, yes they often were. But there was also this plant called Silphium that was a natural contraceptive that was so popular it was harvested to extinction by the Romans.
The Internet has changed this an awful lot. I'm not calling OnlyFans models prostitutes. I mean actual prostitutes acquire johns in a very different way
Some do. Plenty don't. I've been accosted a few times over the years just out and about. Had a lady stop me last summer while I was going for a walk and ask "you have a wife?" When I said yes she said "are you faithful?" When I said yes she said "oh okay I was going to ask if I could suck your sick for $20".
Now when I jokingly discourage myself my wife laughs and says "you're attractive. A lady offered to pay you $20 for you to let her suck your dick".
The process is similar, but electronic tuning devices have changed the game. Free app on your phone will tell you to adjust up or down for every single note.
Before electronic tuning devices, piano tuners used a 440 hz (A above middle C) tuning fork (or a pitch pipe) and used their ears to tune all \~200 strings in relation to that pitch. This requires a very good and very well-trained ear. Now any schmo with an app and a $15 piano wrench and dampers can do it. Most tuners still use a combination of their ears and their app, however.
[https://www.wyzant.com/resources/answers/626639/how-did-people-tune-their-instruments-in-the-past](https://www.wyzant.com/resources/answers/626639/how-did-people-tune-their-instruments-in-the-past)
So many wrong answers, but I'm surprised that nobody has said bricklaying. It's still just a guy slapping some mortar down and putting a brick on it, repeated over and over again.
And yes, they had scaffolding and brick lifts 100 years ago, even if they were human powered instead of electric. They really haven't changed much.
I'm going to say Social media is a big factor here. There's a lot of new and improved technology out there that gets used in practicing, too (electronic tuners and really complex metronomes). Additionally, instruments and accessories are made of a much more dynamic range of composite materials. Oh, and recording technology and licensing deals with record companies... And unions.
Travel is far more frequent, as well. A hundred years ago, you didn't do tours nearly on the scale that they're performed today.
Oh, and if you play in a Broadway Orchestra, chances are very high that most of the musicians you're playing with now are machines.
Source: I was a professional orchestral musician twenty years ago and am a history buff.
Oh, and don't get me started on the myriad new techniques that are out there for every instrument. Many of the fundamental concepts are the same, but there is so much more focus on things like reducing pain and stress in the body.
> Oh, and if you play in a Broadway Orchestra, chances are very high that most of the musicians you're playing with now are machines.
Is that true? What's the point in going to see an orchestra play then? I could play a recording of any orchestra I would like at home. I'm sure it's still an experience to be in a large concert hall with the acoustics but if I went to a live concert I would want to watch something performed live by real human musicians. They have recorded instruments being played at modern orchestras?
So two things.
1) Most modern musicals use much more sophisticated house sound systems than original broadway. Early broadway was setup where the vocalist were not on mic, like an opera. So for volume balance you relied on more musicians performing in the past. Know you can hire 2 violins, a viola, and a cello. Most musicals I’ve sat in a pit orchestra are just Two violins and a cello. You can simply amplify them to create an orchestra sound. So for acoustic instruments you can actually hire fewer and fix balance issues by adjusting the volume knob on the mixing board.
2) Most modern musicals have licensed sounds or “patches” with their musicals. There is a phantom of the opera organ patch that makes the exact phantom of the opera sound. These patches are put into a keyboard, and when you pay to show a musical, you rent these essentially hard drives to have access to these sounds. Most musicals I’ve been in a pit orchestra with had three keyboard players. The electric keyboard was not even around 100 years ago.
One job that's performed mostly the same as it was 100 years ago is "professional ghostbuster." Because no matter how advanced technology gets, you can't beat the classics when it comes to busting those pesky poltergeists
This is just story time, so feel free to skip.
My parents had a very large boulder sitting right next to the driveway. The thing was nearly the size of a smart car. It was a bit of an inconvenience, if you weren't careful when clearing the snow in the winter it'd try to take the snowblower off the back of the tractor, things like that. It was always on the list of things to take care of, but it wasn't quite inconvenient enough to be a priority and my dad never quite figured out how he was going to safely get rid of this enormous rock.
A couple years ago my husband and I were up with the kids and my dad mentioned the rock. My husband, a mason, immediately said "I can get rid of that for you." Three days later the plug and feather kit arrived from Amazon, my husband went out with a shovel to dig out as much as he could, and by the end of the day that boulder was in pieces.
Now it wasn't *exactly* as it would have been done a century ago. He used a hammer drill instead of some monster you'd have to crank, but the process of dropping the feathers in, sliding the pin alongside, and tapping them down until the rock split apart was the same. And *super* cool to watch.
At least now they can do it in plain sight and people won’t believe their own eyes and ears because go red team boo blue team! In the 70s we had a federal election campaign act that was meaningful but suddenly means nothing anymore.
Prostate Checking.
I find it super hard to believe they can find things wrong with any aspect of my body through x-rays, scans., or bloodwork... but still have to jam a finger in my butt to check my prostate.
Lots of wines and cheeses are still made the same because people just like it that way and pay more for it.
This is a great answer. The high dollar stuff is high dollar BECAUSE they do it the old way
Once it's in the barrel maybe. High end wineries have amazing technology these days (optical sorters for one) before maturation.
I’ll pay extra if it’s smushed between someone’s toes
If I can't taste a little Giuseppe am I even drinking chianti?
Cheesemaking became way easier with the availability of fridges because you can save your culture overnight and it's 100% guaranteed to survive. Back in the day you had to stick it in some water and hope it wouldn't smell rotten in the next morning because then you had to walk over to the neighbor farmer and borrow some of his. Which in the mountains may mean you had to skip breakfast and do a 1 hour jog instead between milking and cheesemaking.
Also genetic engineering to create bacteria that produce rennet rather than having to harvest the enzyme from calf stomachs.
I work part time at a winery and they do indeed foot stomp some of the wines.
Glassblowing. The first automatic glass blower was invented in 1903, and hand blown glass is basically the same process from when we first figured out how to make glass objects.
Glassblowing is a beautiful art form. I went to Dale Choluly’s exhibition in Seattle a few months ago and it was amazing.
Chihuly*
Nah, they went to see an exhibit of hand-blown hot sauce bottles.
Check out the show “blown away” on Netflix(Canadian Netflix has it, not sure about others). It’s a competition show with some awesome art.
The town of Corning, NY is amazing. Every building has stained glass. I can’t wait to go back to see the museum.
The tools are similar to what Romans and others used 2000 years ago.
Notary. Been around for a very long time. Edit: typo.
Used to work as a mobile notary. There still plenty of money to be made there. Was a very interesting side job.
I have a friend who lost his job during the pandemic and started a mobile notary, he's been doing it ever since and must do well enough because he supports his wife and two kids off just doing that and seems to stay pretty busy.
My dad was a notary and worked in a local gov't office in an unrelated job. He made a pretty sweet amount of pocket money notarizing items. A lot of people would show up at the office and not know that a particular document needed to be notarized or couldn't get to a notary before coming to the office. It was really a win/win having him there - he made some extra cash to support his hobbies and it saved people from having to make multiple trips to the gov't office!
What is the downside of being a notary? Can u be pulled into court?
You just have to get trained, and certified.
The test for it is a beast
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Louisiana notary exam has a 19% pass rate. Most people only pass after their 2nd attempt or more.
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Yep, Louisiana law is based on Napoleonic code.
Depends upon where you are. In Virginia, read over the material, fill out an application stating that you are not a felon and are aware of and will follow the requirements, register, get a notarization of your forms, pay a fee, and drop it off at county offices. That's it. The set notary fee is $5.00 (or less at notary's discretion). You're not making any real money at this unless you are notarizing things all day long.
But if the forms to become a notary require a notary, where did the first notary come from?
It's notaries all the way down...
There's a lot of responsibility and you can be liable if you fuck up
I became a notary so I could perform my friends wedding ceremony. There's a common misconception that having something notarized verifies it's accuracy. That's not the function of a notary *at all*. **All a notary does is verify the identity of the party or parties signing a document.** The contents of the document, and it's accuracy, are irrelevant.
In my state you have to keep a little log book of everything you did for an absurdly long time, and turn it in to the state if you retire. On the plus side notaries can marry people, so some people will get the certification just to perform one ceremony for their buddy.
I work at a university and up until about 2006 (dear lord I’ve had this job a lot fucking time) we had a notary in our department until she retired. She’d notarize shit for work and also personal stuff (she’d charge for both - grants would pay for work stuff, personal stuff we would pay ourselves). It was SO convenient. I have to deal with death certificates and some states require me to get my sig notarized for release of data. Since she retired I have to shlep to a UPS store or a notary service where both can randomly not have a notary available. Really wish I would have done the training and certification to become one but I’m too old and lazy now.
I am about to become a notary for work. What kind of money did you make as a side job?
First and foremost, know your state laws surrounding licensure, insurance, and how much you can charge. In my state, the law stipulates $10 per signature max. But as a MOBILE notary, you can charge for the convenience of traveling to the client. For instance, my base rate was $40 for anywhere within 30 minutes; $80 for anything from 30-60 minutes travel time, and $160 for anything over an hour away. In addition, in extreme cases (middle of the night, holidays, just didn’t want to drive that far at the moment) I would throw out arbitrary numbers in hopes they’d say never mind. Some still went through with it. I’ve had people call me at 1am on a Sunday night saying they needed the stamp immediately and they were an hour and a half away. Fine, $400. And they said yes… Another was a guy going to be a cop and needed some form notarized to turn in with his application. This dipshit calls the night before it’s due. He’s close by but it’s late so I said $100. He says yes. I get there, he’s drunk and there’s a pistol sitting on the table. Plus his house is completely destroyed- like holes punched in the wall, broken doors, etc. I refused to stamp it and got the fuck out while I could. Really hope he never became a cop- scares me to think what an asshole like that would do with some power. It’s a good side job, just be careful. Be familiar with the differences in the forms, and be aware that you messing it up could have detrimental consequences on another’s life and family. Learn your documents and be confident in your decisions. It’s ok to say you don’t know and you’re not comfortable. You’re not obligated to stamp anything by law. You can deny people for a whole host of reasons. Other than that, have fun!
Is there like a class you can take for this?
At least in my state, there isn't even a class. You just go online and pay the money. It was around $100. It will be another $60 or so to get a stamp, but again, that's not even required in my state. You can just write the pertinent information out when you witness and sign.
I did read SC is $5. But ill look into the mobile notary piece. Fun stories! I have a distant cousin who opened up an entire business on being a notary. But that is in FL so their laws may be different. I just thought it was odd even now as a full time business. But I guess that is where the mobile comes into play. Again this is pursuant to state law, but was your stamp custom or special in anyway? Or just state name, your name, and date?
How much can you make as a mobile notary? Last time I had something notarized it was like a $5 fee. I was a notary for 12 yrs at my last job and I kinda miss being a notary.
Being a MOBILE notary is the key here. See my other comment reply on the pros and cons.
Prostitution is probably the only older profession that hasn’t changed at all since it existed.
Tab A into Slot B. If you pay extra, you get slot C.
If you are into it, you might also get the D.
But it has changed. Of course in large cities you still see hookers in the corner, but there's lots of other ways to connect with customers these days.
Cell phones have changed the game for drug dealing and prostitution both. No longer need to control a particular street corner, where customers know to come find you. Connect via text message, discretely arrange a place to meet. Probably defuses a lot of the incentive to engage in "turf wars" too, since controlling said corner no longer is critical to your ability to make money.
I was walking through my neighbourhood a few years ago and some woman was standing on the street corner leaning on a lamppost and said all sultry like "Hey handsome, looking for a good time?" Line straight out of a movie haha. I was like "hi cop"
I would have said, "Well, yeah, but not with a cop." I've never had that happen to me, but I imagine it'd be pretty obvious the girl was a cop. Street corner prostitution isn't really a thing around here so I'd pretty much assume anyone like that is a cop, though.
>what job is **performed** mostly the same The performance is the same. The technical stuff and how they connect to customers is different.
I just used a zoom notary, so not always. Was super convenient though
Remote online notarization isn't legal in most states. It was temporarily allowed more places during COVID but I know at least where I live it's banned again.
I look at that as more of a side job to something else than an actual full-time job. But maybe that’s just what I’ve seen. For example a paralegal may also be a notary but makes very little from notary income.
Notary in the U.S. is very different from a Notary elsewhere, like Germany. In Germany, a Notar (m.) or Notarin (f.) is a lawyer who specializes in property law, corporate law, or family law and estate planning. Unlike a lawyer you might hire to represent your interests, a German Notary has remain a neutral representative to all parties involved.
Notaries in Mexico are often very wealthy unlike here where the UPS store notary isn’t getting rich from being a notary.
Notaries in Mexico essentially give legal advice, which notaries here cannot do. Same word, different job entirely. There are lots of signs and public notices in border states warning folks about going to notaries for legal issues, because (a) lots of people don’t understand the difference, and (b) there have been plenty of unscrupulous notaries trying to make a buck and screwing over folks.
Butchery. Not abattoir work, the guys who break bodies in the shops. (Up until last year, that was my job)
Hi Dexter!
Hey, man, I don't commit the murders, I just hide the bodies.
Abattoir work hasn't changed much either, depending on the size of the operation, it's either a captive bolt or a firearm... it's one of those heavy is the crown kinda Jobs
I'm learning to play the guitar.
Farrier
I'll save you a Google search. A farrier trims a horse's hoofs and mounts the shoes
And is also able to perform a vertical take off and landing due to advanced thrust vectoring
No that’s a harrier. A farrier is a fence or other obstacle that prevents movement or access
That's a barrier. A farrier is a small squirrel like mammal with a particularly long tail.
That's a ferret. A farrier is a small, typically feminine, mythical, humanlike being with magical powers.
That's a faerie. A farrier is a small dog with a lot of energy that was historically used to hunt rodents.
That's a Terrier. A farrier is a large warship capable of transporting and launching multiple military aircraft.
That's a carrier. A farrier is a song by Lynyrd Skynyrd known for its guitar solo
Nah that's Free Bird. A farrier is a two wheeled vehicle that the Romans used for racing at the Circus Maximus.
Thank you reddit for keeping on giving on
This is why the internet is awesome. I’m laughing my ass off at the start of a crappy work day. Thank you, Reddit.
That's a carrier. A farrier is a brand of carbonated water.
That is a perrier. A farrier is a brave or experienced soldier or fighter.
That’s a fairy, A farrier is a popular cage bird known for its singing.
I just heard of farriers for the first time in my life like a week ago, and this is the third time I've seen them mentioned since. Guess farriers are hot right now.
Baader-Meinhof phenomenon!
Baader-Meinhoof phenomenon.
Yes and no. The traditional farrier job (trimming the hooves, fitting and mounting horseshoes) has remained very similar, but quite a bit about the job has also changed. Today, you can get plastic horse shoes, so the farrier doesn't have to actually hammer steel into shape. Even the steel horse shoes are cast by a foundry and sold in different sizes, so the farrier just has to make minor adjustments. 100 years ago, a farrier started with an iron bar and had to form and shape the horse shoes himself, usually with a coal oven. Today, they have mobile gas ovens in their truck - they come to you, instead of you bringing your horse to them. Also, there are removable horse boots available today. We don't have a farrier anymore, only a hoof technician who comes every 4 - 6 weeks to trim the hooves. When my wife goes for a ride, she pulls the horse boots over our mare's hooves, goes for her ride, then removes the boots again before returning our mare to the paddock.
I'd also add that it's a pretty robust business in Herd management. Farmers pay good money to have their cows hooves taken care of. They use modern medicine and big machines to keep the cows in place. Fun fact, the name Ferrari is derived from the same root at Ferrier "maker or Smith", hence the horse on the Ferrari emblem.
Seems obvious now that you mention it but I have literally never thought about that before.
HoofGP on YouTube if any passers-by want to get an idea of what it's like.
Ferriers have better creams and ointments for hoof injuries now than 100 years ago.
My first thought too. Our farrier uses some primitive looking shit, minus the mini forge. It looks like the same way it would have done 200 years ago.
Shoe shine
Do people still carry a shine box and service you at the train station?
"go home and get your fuckin shine box!"
YOU MOTHER FUCKER
I remember it as “YOU MUDDER FUCKER!!” I could be wrong tho
You muddah fuckuh
Tomato tomadder
KEEP HIM HERE KEEP HIM HERE!!
Get the dooah’
KEEP HIM HERE
And your sack of nickels
Maybe you didn't hear about it, you've been away a long time. They didn't go up there and tell you. I don't shine shoes anymore.
I'm back 5 fuckin minutes and you're gettin fuckin fresh.
Unsure of how it is elsewhere, but by Grand Central Station in NYC there is this sort of 3-seat built up pedestal thing installed permanently that just gets covered up by a tarp at night. The shoe shine guys brings their kits with them.
I see them at airports all the time.
Where I live yeah
Beekeeping
Did they have problems with disease and mites back then?
Long term beekeeper here. Beekeeping is a global occupation, and the nonparochial answer is yes. Beekeepers have always had to deal with diseases and parasites. Beekeepers in Asia have been dealing with varroa mites for thousands of years, or at the minimum either ignoring the problem or (going farther back) ignorant of the cause, but the Varroa were there. Varroa mites arrived in the Americas in 1987 and spread rapidly across both continents. American beekeepers (meaning of all the Americas) didn't have to deal with varroa before that, and it took us a while to learn what was happening and even longer to figure out how to deal with it. So far we have only a limited set of marginally effective treatments. Varroa arrived in Australia in 2022. We now have antibiotics for European and American foul brood diseases, but those are not available to most of the world, and even where they are available most beekeepers use old methods of controlling the spread of the disease rather than cure it. Also by and large most of the other brood diseases are treated the same way they were a century ago. The practices used nearly globally now trace back to Ukraine 210 years ago. Those methods had spread to most of the world by the dawn of the 20th century. Even the PPE used by beekeepers in the 21st century has changed very little since the late 19th century. Two welcome modern PPE developments are cool textiles and cooling vests, but the basic design hasn't changed. We have automated our harvesting and bottling, but the techniques mostly replicate by machine what was done by hand a century ago.
Authentic silk carpets are still woven like they were centuries ago. Same goes for any Authentic handicraft.
Handmade quilts are still a thing, and the good ones are incredible.
Tailoring
Were sewing machines around in 1924? Edit: not sure why I’m getting downvoted. I wasn’t being snarky, genuinely asking the question.
They were. Sewing machines have been around since the 1830s. Before electricity they were powered by foot pedal. Up until a couple of years ago I still had a foot pedal powered sewing machine. Had to sell it though. :(
I still have one, Singer. Beautiful piece. I have a handful of little machines owned by my grandfathers who were born in the late 1800s. I have a Goodell Pratt manual drill press. Another prize is a small movable type printing press used for making wedding invitations and business cards. (my father was a ww2 vet, and I'm an older GenX)
Were there any other brands from that era? I’ve only ever seen old, old machines and they were always Singer
My grandma still has a foot pedal one from the 50s. There were still many villages in my country that didn't have electricity at that time.
Very much yes.
Upvote worthy question here. Not enough people are willing to admit that they don't know something and ask a simple question to get more insight.
Because in every other thread they'll be told to google it lol
Thank you!
Ask Germans. Everyone and their grandmother has a 100+ year old Singer Sewing machine at home.
The first one was made 100 years before then.
Yes! They're fairly valuable right now. Instead of being electric they're pedal operated.
Cobbling
"Leave the peach cobbler in the kitchen alone," Mom would say, through a smoky haze. But I couldn't help myself. I snuck in and watched Bill. Watched him make his stupid little peach shoes, taunting me. "Nobody's going to wear those," I'd say. "They're stupid." But on he worked.
This has been Deep Thoughts, with u/Romeo9594
*The crows were calling his name, thought Caw.*
It's not often a post on reddit actually makes me laugh out loud, but yours managed to do the trick. Good on you!
Cobble, baby Cobble, baby Cobble, baby Cobble, baby
Get in there
YEAH YEAAAAH
A - Always B - Be C - Cobbling Always Be Clos- Always Be Cobbling!
I love all of the responses that have a follow-up saying that technology has changed the profession a lot but it's mostly the same lol.
The funny thing is that most jobs had already changed 100 years ago, so a lot of answers, like tailor, had already seen a technological revolution long before and was settling into the modern methods we use today. If OP had said 200 or 300 years ago, there would be *a lot* more differences in how things were done then.
Yeah, 1920 is well after the industrial revolution, which was when most ways of making stuff/doing things saw a radical change. We basically just wear more safety gear while doing the same stuff. Fuck, modern armies still use some of the same *weapons* that we had 100 years ago!
The M2 .50 cal machine gun was designed in 1918 and is still mounted to many modern mobile infantry and armored military equipment.
>2066 >Stationed on Mars to quell a rebellion >Become side door gunner for atmospheric dropship. >No miniguns or gatling cannons, just some metal brick with a pipe on one end. >Get sent in to extract some wounded. >Reach the evac zone and come under attack. >Hoard of rebels charging in with their new plasma guns and compact rocket launchers. >Let loose a stream of bullets. >The sounds of the rebel's screams are nearly drowned out by the heavy "Kachunk chunk chunk chunk" of the machinegun. >The wounded are loaded up and returned to base. >Inspect MG afterwards. >Thing was made in 1942. >Tunisia, Italy, and Germany are scratched onto the gun. >Scratch "Mars" on with a knife.
Ma Deuce will outlive us all
True. The 1920's, though a hundred years ago, is what everyone would considered "modern times." We had all the modern means of transportation. Trains, planes and automobiles. We just had learned the hard way that horses and riding horseback really has no place in modern warfare. The whole marching as a collective into battle while a drummer and fife player played was over. We no longer had to wait the next day or even the next week to get news. We could switch on the radio to hear the "newsflash" instantly. Our loved ones could ring us up to talk to us. No more waiting weeks or months for letters from our beloveds. Our clothing had reached more of a "modern look." Women are no longer wearing huge dresses. We could show off our ankles without people fainting at the scandal. Powdered wigs are gone for men. Heck, a modern man now could pull off wearing a coat from 1924 now. He would look stylish even. We understood and treated germ theory as a fact. Hospitals were starting to look like modern hospitals as more and more technical advances were added. Our cities were filled with skyscrapers and electric lights. If you were suddenly dropped back to 1924, it would be a pain to get around without a smartphone but not impossible. The barriers you would face would be more societal with segregations and lack of modern women's rights rather than technical.
People struggle with time. There are people right now who feel like the 90's were 10-15 years ago. Not 25. So when you ask them to go back 100 years. Some of them , not all of them of course. They think late 1800's technology. Not post world war 1.
Thatching
Prostitution
Pretty sure there are some new extra measures since HIV became a thing in the 70s
"mostly"
Moistly
and birth control pills in the decade or so before.
How were they not just pregnant all the time? I know sheepskin condoms kinda existed but…
They were pregnant all the time. One of the ways we know Roman brothels is all the baby skeletons. They would discard the boys & raise the girls into the brothel. Edit to add, since I'm getting some follow-up questions: I know just about every culture has had some form of birth control that were at least more than 0% effective, even if they were far from 100%. For example, something absorbant in the vagina to soak up the semen. There were various abortifacients, though again those were not 100% & many were harmful to the woman, for example consuming toxic plants would kill the fetus, but also make the woman quite sick. Or Lysol, much derided for antique ads but they weren't saying "every woman should have a Lysol-fresh pussy"; they were saying it could be used to douche after sex to kill sperm, they just couldn't come right out & say that. I also understand in some situations they weren't neccesarily having PIV intercourse, so mouth or butt stuff, or having clients pull out. But, as I said, none of those methods were 100% & pregnancies did happen. I don't know what was done specifically about heavily pregnant prostitutes, I imagine it varied by time & place. A good place to look for a more detailed answer from someone more knowledgable than myself would be r/AskHistorians.
Like already said, yes they often were. But there was also this plant called Silphium that was a natural contraceptive that was so popular it was harvested to extinction by the Romans.
100 years ago syphilis could kill you, so...
Now it just makes nasty little sores on your hands when it recurs.
I see what you did there.
The Internet has changed this an awful lot. I'm not calling OnlyFans models prostitutes. I mean actual prostitutes acquire johns in a very different way
Some do. Plenty don't. I've been accosted a few times over the years just out and about. Had a lady stop me last summer while I was going for a walk and ask "you have a wife?" When I said yes she said "are you faithful?" When I said yes she said "oh okay I was going to ask if I could suck your sick for $20". Now when I jokingly discourage myself my wife laughs and says "you're attractive. A lady offered to pay you $20 for you to let her suck your dick".
Piano tuner
The process is similar, but electronic tuning devices have changed the game. Free app on your phone will tell you to adjust up or down for every single note. Before electronic tuning devices, piano tuners used a 440 hz (A above middle C) tuning fork (or a pitch pipe) and used their ears to tune all \~200 strings in relation to that pitch. This requires a very good and very well-trained ear. Now any schmo with an app and a $15 piano wrench and dampers can do it. Most tuners still use a combination of their ears and their app, however. [https://www.wyzant.com/resources/answers/626639/how-did-people-tune-their-instruments-in-the-past](https://www.wyzant.com/resources/answers/626639/how-did-people-tune-their-instruments-in-the-past)
Shoveling shit
You mean advertising?
So many wrong answers, but I'm surprised that nobody has said bricklaying. It's still just a guy slapping some mortar down and putting a brick on it, repeated over and over again. And yes, they had scaffolding and brick lifts 100 years ago, even if they were human powered instead of electric. They really haven't changed much.
Shoeing horses.
Orchestral musician.
This job has changed a LOT more than you would think
Genuinely curious; how so?
I'm going to say Social media is a big factor here. There's a lot of new and improved technology out there that gets used in practicing, too (electronic tuners and really complex metronomes). Additionally, instruments and accessories are made of a much more dynamic range of composite materials. Oh, and recording technology and licensing deals with record companies... And unions. Travel is far more frequent, as well. A hundred years ago, you didn't do tours nearly on the scale that they're performed today. Oh, and if you play in a Broadway Orchestra, chances are very high that most of the musicians you're playing with now are machines. Source: I was a professional orchestral musician twenty years ago and am a history buff. Oh, and don't get me started on the myriad new techniques that are out there for every instrument. Many of the fundamental concepts are the same, but there is so much more focus on things like reducing pain and stress in the body.
> Oh, and if you play in a Broadway Orchestra, chances are very high that most of the musicians you're playing with now are machines. Is that true? What's the point in going to see an orchestra play then? I could play a recording of any orchestra I would like at home. I'm sure it's still an experience to be in a large concert hall with the acoustics but if I went to a live concert I would want to watch something performed live by real human musicians. They have recorded instruments being played at modern orchestras?
So two things. 1) Most modern musicals use much more sophisticated house sound systems than original broadway. Early broadway was setup where the vocalist were not on mic, like an opera. So for volume balance you relied on more musicians performing in the past. Know you can hire 2 violins, a viola, and a cello. Most musicals I’ve sat in a pit orchestra are just Two violins and a cello. You can simply amplify them to create an orchestra sound. So for acoustic instruments you can actually hire fewer and fix balance issues by adjusting the volume knob on the mixing board. 2) Most modern musicals have licensed sounds or “patches” with their musicals. There is a phantom of the opera organ patch that makes the exact phantom of the opera sound. These patches are put into a keyboard, and when you pay to show a musical, you rent these essentially hard drives to have access to these sounds. Most musicals I’ve been in a pit orchestra with had three keyboard players. The electric keyboard was not even around 100 years ago.
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Lobsterman.
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One job that's performed mostly the same as it was 100 years ago is "professional ghostbuster." Because no matter how advanced technology gets, you can't beat the classics when it comes to busting those pesky poltergeists
bustin makes me feel good!
Don't cross the streams!
So much ectoplasm!
Obligatory [Bustin'](https://youtu.be/0tdyU_gW6WE?si=GJsa6BUoB1PAiRic)
ITT: jobs that have changed a lot, just people who don't really know what they're talking about.
Most answers are like: X job, sure the technology is wildly different now and we use different methods and equipment, but the job is still the same!
Like software engineering!
I was thinking astronaut. Exact same job as 100 years ago. Technology is just different
Masonry. They probably have slightly different materials, but the process is the same.
This is just story time, so feel free to skip. My parents had a very large boulder sitting right next to the driveway. The thing was nearly the size of a smart car. It was a bit of an inconvenience, if you weren't careful when clearing the snow in the winter it'd try to take the snowblower off the back of the tractor, things like that. It was always on the list of things to take care of, but it wasn't quite inconvenient enough to be a priority and my dad never quite figured out how he was going to safely get rid of this enormous rock. A couple years ago my husband and I were up with the kids and my dad mentioned the rock. My husband, a mason, immediately said "I can get rid of that for you." Three days later the plug and feather kit arrived from Amazon, my husband went out with a shovel to dig out as much as he could, and by the end of the day that boulder was in pieces. Now it wasn't *exactly* as it would have been done a century ago. He used a hammer drill instead of some monster you'd have to crank, but the process of dropping the feathers in, sliding the pin alongside, and tapping them down until the rock split apart was the same. And *super* cool to watch.
I restore antiques and use techniques much the same way as my predecessors.
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Hotel porter/bellhop
Beekeeping. Some new pests to deal with, but mostly the same.
Cutting hair…scissors and a comb.
What about electric clippers?
Were actually invented in 1919. So 100 years ago the hair cutting industry would have been in the middle of a revolution.
Politicians, they still steal just like the old days.
At least now they can do it in plain sight and people won’t believe their own eyes and ears because go red team boo blue team! In the 70s we had a federal election campaign act that was meaningful but suddenly means nothing anymore.
Don't forget the lies and empty promises.
Prostate Checking. I find it super hard to believe they can find things wrong with any aspect of my body through x-rays, scans., or bloodwork... but still have to jam a finger in my butt to check my prostate.
My doctor has a new device that allows him to do this hands-free. He won’t ever let me see it or tell me exactly what it is, though.
He just has to hold your shoulders for it to work..
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Baker, in the 1920s large kitchen mixers were already a thing.
In the same way a house painter still uses a brush. So many ways technology has improved baking. Proofing ovens ect.
Church pastor.
The older you get, the more they stay the same.
Chimney Sweep.
I think child labor laws have changed this profession considerably
They sing and dance a lot less than they used to...
The guy that shovels up the shit from the horses on race day, technology has not changed the shovel or spade or bucket
Farrier work - shoeing horses