The nature of work has changed so much just in the past 20 years. Let alone the past 60! Asking this question about grandparents’ jobs is definitely like stepping into a time machine. (As an aside, did you know that before alarm clocks, there was a job called a “knocker-upper”? You paid a person to knock on your window at the hour you specified. Crazy!

Source: The Legacy Project’s phenomenal and very complete questionnaire for interviewing grandparents.

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