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Take your kid to work day, brain surgery edition

When sharing with your kid goes too far...

A neurosurgeon is facing a criminal investigation after allowing her teenage daughter to drill into a patient's skull during surgery.

The medic, whose identity was not disclosed, was employed at University Hospital Graz in Austria and reportedly guided her 13-year-old daughter step-by-step through the procedure in January.

She allegedly went as far as letting her daughter drill into the skull of 33-year-old Gregor R., who required emergency surgery following a head injury from a forest accident.


More info: Daily Mail

Posted By: Alex - Tue Sep 03, 2024 - Comments (2)
Category: Jobs and Occupations, Teenagers

Your Road to Employment

Looking for a new job? This record will get you one! (As a Nash Rambler salesman.). The player is below.





Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 25, 2024 - Comments (0)
Category: Jobs and Occupations, Self-help Schemes, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, 1960s

Meat Cutting Offers You Success and Security

Because PEOPLE MUST EAT!

Popular Mechanics - Jan 1953

Posted By: Alex - Fri Jul 05, 2024 - Comments (1)
Category: Food, Jobs and Occupations, Advertising, 1950s

Artisanal Pencil Sharpening

For $100 you can buy a pencil that's been hand-sharpened (in an artisanal way) by David Rees.

It used to be that people would send him their own pencils for him to sharpen, but now he's streamlined the process by supplying the pencil, sharpening it, and mailing it directly to you.

More info: artisanalpencilsharpening.com



via Book of Joe

Posted By: Alex - Sun Jun 09, 2024 - Comments (1)
Category: Jobs and Occupations, Writers

Want job title changed

I had several great-aunts who worked in the Duquesne steel mill during World War II. (My grandmother had six sisters.) I'm not sure exactly what their jobs were. I just know they were working on the floor of the mill itself, not in secretarial or admin positions. Perhaps they were "hookers."

Lansing State Journal - July 3, 1975



I found a U.S. Dept. of Labor document titled "Women's Employment in the Making of Steel, 1943." It describes women in the mills working as hookers:

Posted By: Alex - Sat May 25, 2024 - Comments (1)
Category: Jobs and Occupations

Occupational Hazards of Being a Florist


Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 25, 2024 - Comments (0)
Category: Death, Jobs and Occupations, Nature, 1960s

Women for Women International’s International Board Member

The title of this woman's position went a bit off the rail's rails.

Her husband is a big political muckety-muck.

Posted By: Alex - Wed Jan 10, 2024 - Comments (0)
Category: Jobs and Occupations, Odd Names

Speed-O-Sex

Chick sexing is the profession of separating newly hatched female from male chicks. Hatcheries employ chick sexors so that they don't waste money feeding the male chicks that aren't going to grow up to lay eggs.

Differentiating a male from a female chick is quite challenging, especially doing this quickly. The techniques for doing so were first developed in Japan and then brought to America, where Japanese-Americans dominated the industry for most of the 20th century.

The main industry organization was the National Chick Sexing Association and School. But a smaller school, based in Atlanta Georgia in the late 1940s, called itself Speed-O-Sex.

Gotta wonder if that name ever caused confusion among local residents.

More info: DiscoverNikkei.org

Chicago Japanese-American year book, 1947

Posted By: Alex - Mon Oct 16, 2023 - Comments (1)
Category: Jobs and Occupations, Odd Names, Farming, 1940s

Linemen training

I assume bucket lifts have now made pole climbing a thing-of-the-past for linemen.

Popular Science - Feb 1951

Posted By: Alex - Wed Aug 30, 2023 - Comments (4)
Category: Jobs and Occupations, 1950s

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