Years ago at my first ID internship, I submitted my $15/hour invoice--which beat the heck out of the $9.10 I'd been earning as a short order cook. But my eyes popped out of my head when I saw another bill on the boss' desk: for the project we'd just completed, the modelmaker was getting five figures!
That was then, this is now; the profession of modelmaker, alas, has been listed on Boston.com's list of the fastest declining occupations, as reckoned by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. "Technology improvements will cut into job availability for these workers," say the experts, "[but] there will still be opportunities for those who know how to create and produce designs on a computer."
To say the tables have turned would be ironic, because it was often the modelmaker that helped us figure out how the tabletop attached to the base in the first place.
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