00:00 Jobs that are likely to become extinct in the near future include word processors and typists, door-to-door sales workers, and mail carriers, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

05:18 Chariot racing was a popular sport in ancient Rome, but is now an extinct job with no professional chariot racers in the world today.

10:24 Gaeus Diocles was a chariot racer in ancient Rome who amassed a wealth of 36 million cesterces and raced from the age of 18 to 42, surviving close to 4,300 races.

16:16 Armorers in ancient times were highly skilled craftsmen who made suits of armor, and their secrets of how to make these suits were closely guarded, resulting in historians and armor specialists still having questions about their techniques; the process of making a suit of armor would take months or even years, and the armorers made a lot of money and had a higher standing than regular smithies; the suits of armor we see today are usually from the 16th century because the old steel from earlier suits was reused; armorers would set up shop near the materials they needed and armor continued to be used until muskets made it obsolete.

21:38 The job of an armorer went away when muskets became capable of piercing steel, but armorers still played a role in protecting against arrows, knife thrusts, and throwing stars; court jesters in the Middle Ages were highly educated satirists who provided entertainment and served as a voice of criticism in the court, often risking their lives in the process.

27:13 Crossing sweepers were individuals who cleaned up horse manure and trash from the streets of Victorian England, with some seeing it as a valuable job and others considering it a last chance before becoming a beggar.

32:39 Crossing sweepers were individuals who cleaned up horse manure and trash from the streets of Victorian England, with some seeing it as a valuable job and others considering it a last chance before becoming a beggar, and as sanitation improved and fashions changed, the crossing sweeper evolved into the grocery store bagger.

38:11 Ice cutting was a job in which ice was harvested from frozen ponds, lakes, and rivers during the winter and then distributed and delivered to homes during the summer.

43:30 Ice cutting involved using horse-drawn plows to clear snow off the ice, scoring the ice, and then cutting it all the way through with a horse-drawn saw before transporting the ice to an ice house packed with sawdust to prevent melting, and this job existed until the 1930s when refrigeration became more common.

48:41 Pin setters were responsible for manually setting up and clearing the pins in bowling alleys until the invention of the automatic pin spotter in 1946.

53:50 Party line operators were responsible for managing shared telephone lines in the early 20th century, where multiple households had their own unique ring and could eavesdrop on their neighbors' conversations.

59:06 Party line operators became obsolete with the advent of individual household telephone lines and now individual people have their own phone lines.