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To: da_cheif™ who wrote (1655)	11/4/2004 1:52:29 PM
From: LPS5	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2534

Hello, da_chief, and welcome. You know, at one time there was a good career to be had in operating elevators. It took manual expertise, required keeping abreast of the developing product technology, and moreover demanded social skills being that an essential component of the job was heavy interaction with the denizens of whatever building one was posted in. As I understand it, there were elevator operator apprenticeships, trade unions and benevolent associations, and everyone had their apartment or office building's elevator operator(s) on their holiday gratuity lists. But, like zeppelin and autogyro pilots, thalidomide salesmen, commercial airline navigators, buggy whip makers, milkmen, and many other such occupations, within a few decades of their heydey the elevator operators and most of the fixtures of their profession were virtually gone. Today, the nature of displacement has more to do with transitory, competitive economic forces rather than the nature of various modes of employment itself, but the consequent song remains the same. LPS5