One is the knocker upper.Which 'extinct ' job might you have liked to do? Knocker-upper A knocker-upper's job was to rouse sleeping people so they could get to work on time. The knocker-up used a truncheon or short, heavy stick to knock on the clients' doors or a long and light stick, often made of bamboo, to reach windows on higher floors. At least one of them used a pea-shooter. In return, the knocker-up would be paid a few pence a week. The knocker-up would not leave a client's window until they were sure that the client had been awoken.
What about the encyclopaedia Salesman ? It always seemed that never a month went by when I was a kid that someone didn't try to sell my mother a set of 'cyclopedias for £1 a month starting fro A-C
Oh, you had those, too? I met them in the early nineties and thought this was just because the internet was coming along and the publishing houses quickly wanted to find someone who they could sell their paper books to? Those salesmen were almost exclusively those who'd been dismissed after the changes in the early nineties.
Not sure: Do you still have TV announcers? I haven't seen them for decades over here but just read that some channels, which I don't watch, seem to reuse them on occasion. Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-F001105-0004 / Brodde / CC-BY-SA 3.0 [CC BY-SA 3.0 de (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en)] not changed