Ninja is not an obsolete job! They’ve just become so stealthy and cunning that no one realizes they’re still around 🥷🫥
Ignoring the joke, it is actually obsolete. The last ninja family refuses to name a successor, pass on certain techniqies, etc. so technically, no more official ninja
I don’t know… That sounds like just the sort of thing an ancient ninja clan would want you to think…
They’ll change their minds one a skilled but arrogant youth appears on their doorstep. They will, of course, be later killed by his nemesis, but not before transfering their legacy onto him.
That’s what they want you to believe.
Well that sucks. If there are never goin to be ninjas again the least the family could do is write down all the secret techniques for histories sake.
How’s Splinter supposed to teach his turtle boys now? We’re just about getting to the good mutagen technologies!
Only a wannabe fake would claim to be a “ninja” !
Come on that’s like talking about fight club…
They stll work today, protecting sports memorabilia. They are the ninja baseball batman.
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Well yeah That’s what he said
Dont forget “computer”
Hidden Figures should be required reading (required viewing?) for anyone in STEM
Assuming we’re taking about the Charles Babbage era computers, yes.
They were not. They were talking about a much more important part of history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures_(book)
Babbage had some interesting ideas and produced one machine that was not especially useful. He didn’t even really understand the idea of software. That was Ada Lovelace.
NASA’s “computers” got us to the moon. They literally calculated Apollo 11’s trajectory. They saved the men on Apollo 13 by plotting their directory back home. All with paper and their superior knowledge of mathematics.
They were women and they were black, which is why they were mostly forgotten for many years and why you probably don’t know about them yourself.
“What’s a computer?” - Apple 2017
These sound like classes in a weird jrpg
Priest Hunter lol
Joint role play experts group?
Well fuck. I’m a useful man…
Looks like that’s useless :/
You were simply transformed into a handyperson.
It wasn’t the same as a handyman. The title “useful man” was for a servant who’d never actually serve the master.
Today it’d be a “runner” or some kind of “assistant to the assistant”
A Go-fer
Holy shit, is this why lowly assistants are colloquially called gophers?!? I never drew the connection. Sometime we just take weird words or phrases for granted without thinking about their etymology.
TIL, thanks.
Does a priest hunter find new priests, or is it a person who kills priests?
First one; then the other.
Turns out they were basically bounty hunters for Catholic priests during Elizabeth I’s reign.
Which “for”?
Bounty hunters searching for Catholic priests.
Bounty hunter working for Catholic priests.
Hunting down Catholic priests
Liz 1 was Protestant. Catholicism was illegal under her reign
Or a priest who also keeps the monastery flush with game meat?
Nah, we should be hunting these monsters
There’s a podcast called Jobsolete that covers, as the name implies, obsolete jobs! It’s inactive now but they have an ok size catalog that it’s worth going back and listening.
So the podcast is now obsolete?
Meta af
I hope their last episode was about themselves. “so there were these people who used to tell others about obsolete jobs. They used to get paid through ads and patreon. Their job consisted of googling obsolete jobs and reading about them, and then telling their audience what they read.”
Not quite, but their last episode was about executioners which feels tangentially relevant lol.
I would have been great as a garden hermit.
I’m already halfway there, I’m just lacking the garden
With no more High Priestess the priest hunter could finally retire
With decriminalization, they’re probably coming back
No no, see, priests still exist, just not high priestesses.
They said we don’t need toad doctors anymore, but I’m not so sure.
Is the doctor treating sick toads, or treating sick people using toads? Both? Maybe it’s just a pejorative and real toads aren’t involved all
Its a toad using people to trat sick toads and humans
Them: You’re a ninja? I didn’t realize you all still existed. You: Thank you
My dad worked on an assembly line making vacuum tubes. After that he was a calculator repairman for most of his life.
Calculator Repairman.
An entire life that is obsolete now. Because we no longer do much of the drudgery of assembly lines; we have machines that do it. Calculators (and other things) that used to require an entire infrastructure to keep running are now cheap and disposable.
Why can’t a high school graduate raise a family of four and buy a house? Because this isn’t that world. We’ve eliminated a lot of the jobs the middle class used to do.
Not on purpose, just because.
But also on purpose.
I bet toad doctors were so chill.
That’s the one that jumped out at me almost religiously. I feel like I lost out on something deeply fulfilling and tailored to my very soul.
Edit: It doesn’t mention living in a toadstool or a hermit hut covered in them as I had imagined, but I’m sure it’s perfectly legal to do that while still upholding your oaths and croaks.
If I had a time machine I would go and be a toad doctor and live in a little cottage in the woods and have a ton of wacky ingredients and stuff everywhere.
I wonder how much schooling someone would need for this? What’s the salary and benefits like? I think I could do this.
It’s similar to cunning folk, another kind of folk magician.
Huh, no wonder anyone’s so damn useless 🤣
It’s not on the list but I always wanted to be a knocker-upper
FWIW, fluffer is still available.
I’d like to be a town crier.
“Hear ye, hear ye!”
Plus you get to ring a bell.
Sign me up to be a priest hunter.
