The best damn buggywhip makers out there

At some point, many professions become antiquated. When we look back, we often think how lucky we are that no one has to do those jobs any more.

But remember that there had to be a last of every one of those jobs...a last television repairman...a last one-room schoolhouse schoolmarm...a last frontier sheriff...a last record collector...

That last record collector hasn't been quite identified just yet, but Brain Pickings has collected seven short films about spectacular examples of people in dying professions. Each of the subjects has a heart-breaking and inspiring story about why they continue to do what they love when the world clearly has less and less use for their job with each passing day.

Check 'em, especially the one embedded below.


The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.