What is the career field that is least subject to changes?

Is there a career or job in this world that is entirely (or largely) free from changes, upheaval, technological reworking, etc? The only ones I can think of (and this is a completely uneducated guess) is maybe "mural painter." Aside from some minor materials developments, this seems like it's probably about the same as it was a couple hundred years ago, and unlikely to change too dramatically in the next hundred years. I'm thinking really long-term here.

Other ideas I had (not necessarily accurate or good):

Sex worker
Street sweeper (or do they just have trucks do this now?)

naw im sure mural painting has changed with new kinds of paints, projectors etc

um...

cobbler?

thatcher

butcher?

baker?

candlestick... shiner?

it's thatcher

I don't know if the field of grave-digging will change too dramatically in the next several centuries

Professional darts player

(not sure that is real tbh)

Beggar (not sure this counts as a "career" either)

masseur/euse?

karate teacher?

Karate teacher seems like a good one!

bartender? besides dealing with computerized cash register. i mean, look at guinan.

clergy?

professional darts players have in recent years had to lay off of the booze while playing. :'( I'm sure there's be some physically undemanding sport that's been basically the same for centuries though.

janitor? will be replaced by robots within 100yrs tho huh.

karate teacher is going to get phased out in a couple of years by mma teacher

i'm gonna go to school and learn to build acoustic guitars. my guess is the biggest changes will be in methods of selling them.

guard/watchman

Poet?

started supergeek response to arby's and then thought better of it.

it's thatcher btw

Thatcher's career changed a lot: she went from working with ice cream to Prime Minister!

starving artist/student

porn actor

hahaha yeah don't frighten me off xxxxpost

feel like porn actors have it a bit differently than they did 300 years ago.

or should i say, get it a bit differently.

porn actor

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actor yeah probably, but pr0n has pushed a lotta (or at least some) new technology iirc? except for high def. i hear they hate high def.

200 years ago actors' jobs were INCREDIBLY different.

in 10 years they'll probably do it all with mo-cap suits.

NEXT!

mime, psychic, mugger, fire lookout (some changes in communication methods though?)

which fundamentally changes the job imo

also muggers have access to advanced new weapons and tactics

market researcher

fluffer

medicine man

champagne supernova

mario brother

cockroach

the universe

Knew I should have got my masters in cockroach

princess peach

Professional historical reenactor.

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a bag of weed

I am a professional bag of weed

a demigod

also demi-glace

Transparent layer image artifacts optional.

something used

desire

runner

ascetic

midwife

I said super mario brother already

drunk

and luigi's the other one

horse whisperer

pikachu

pikachu forever

guillermo del toro

life

ILX regular

internet hardman

fresh milk

the nina the pinta and the santa maria

moss

when is jaymc on jeopardy

masonry?

anyway the real answer is accountant. world's always gonna need accountants.

My dad got into being an accountant on that very premise and has spent most of his adult life not finding accounting jobs, and instead roofing houses and doing odd jobs and housing developmentally delayed adults for a stipend.

I think he's spent 20% of his post-college life in the accounting field. (This includes the time he spends in April filing friends' taxes for a fee.)

xp hah! my mom has had an accountancy job for over 20 years despite, uh, some things which I probably shouldn't post on a public forum

yeah, but the profession changed alot and still does.

My dad quit the IRS to raise ostriches, he is not the best career exemplar.

another answer is darkroom specialist/film processor

turntable repairman

tramp

Sex worker

I feel like humanity is doing a great job in exploring new fetishes

tomorrow you are going to need to seriously learn how to crush a cassette in stilettos

glassblower

I don't know if the field of grave-digging will change too dramatically in the next several centuries

when I worked for L.A. County I would periodically see the listing for "grave digger" come up on the clipboard of county job listings. thought & still think "what a fuckin awesome job classification"

also a dope monster truck fyi

Isn't the bulk of the grave digging done by machinery nowadays?

stand up comedian. (stand-up part anyway, and not the extraneous twittering and starring in judd apatow movies)

Welder

Farrier

^serious as shit answers btw

I don't know if the field of grave-digging will change too dramatically in the next several centuries

Pretty sure that this will change as burial space runs out. Also, people are getting disinterred at a greater rate these days. I bet the gravediggers of yesteryear weren't digging very many bodies up.

and also better 'digging' tools

I just read the part in David Simon's HOMICIDE: A Life on the Killing Streets where they couldn't find some guy's body because it had been tossed into a mass grave down by a creek at the edge of the cemetery and it reminded me of the Burr Oak Cemetery scandal in Alsip (IL) last year. People be gettin' disinterred, for real.

oops it's a YEAR on the killing streets
you know what i meant

Love that book.