It’s said that the only thing in this world that is constant is change.\u00a0 \u00a0Technology advances seemingly at the speed of light, rendering things that were cutting edge just a few years ago obsolete now.<\/p>\n
Along with things becoming obsolete, skills do too.\u00a0 \u00a0No one needs to know how to operate a telephone switchboard or send a telegraph anymore.\u00a0 No one is getting hired to be a town crier.\u00a0 But there are a lot more recent skills that are quickly going the way of the Dodo bird too, and you probably have a few of them.<\/p>\n
Some of the most commonly listed skills that will be obsolete soon include cursive handwriting and driving a manual transmission car.\u00a0 \u00a0Other skills that aren’t useful anymore- or soon won’t be- include reading a paper map, adjusting the “rabbit ears” on top of the TV, using a pay phone, and using a slide rule.<\/p>\n
I personally am hanging on to excellent 10 key skills.\u00a0 But only with my left hand.\u00a0 It stems back to my retail days which were so long ago we didn’t have barcode scanners.\u00a0 Yes, I’m that old.\u00a0 I can’t remember anymore why I only keyed in numbers left handed but I’m sure I had a good reason at the time.\u00a0 Do I need that anymore?\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 Does anyone?\u00a0 Probably not.<\/p>\n
It’s not always a bad thing when something isn’t useful anymore.\u00a0 I find cursive handwriting to be complete and utterly useless. Even when it’s done well it’s very difficult to read, and usually it’s not done well.\u00a0 There is no reason to keep it around. And yes I will die on this hill.<\/p>\n
But some things make me a little sad.\u00a0 There is something unsettling about knowing you are the last generation who will use a physical dictionary or a give someone a personalized burned CD.\u00a0 \u00a0But i suppose the last town criers and Pony Express riders felt that way too.\u00a0 Time marches on no matter how much we don’t want it to.<\/span><\/p>\n What out of date skills are you possess?\u00a0 Which ones are you sad to see go?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s said that the only thing in this world that is constant is change.\u00a0 \u00a0Technology advances seemingly at the speed of light, rendering things that were cutting edge just a few years ago obsolete now. Along with things becoming obsolete, skills do too.\u00a0 \u00a0No one needs to know how to operate a telephone switchboard or send a telegraph anymore.\u00a0 No… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[25,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bright-shiny-objects","category-myself"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/cassette-tape-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}