Big Data influence: 10 Middle-Class Jobs That Will Vanish by 2030

By the year 2030, the manufacturing industry will lose 1.2 million jobs, the mining and oil/gas extraction industry will lose another 104,000 jobs and utility companies will lose 59,000 jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

So we've listed the 10 middle-class professions -- in order from smallest to largest in percentage rate of decline -- that may soon face the fate of the milk man, the telegraph operator, the stagecoach driver and the switchboard operator, joining them in obsolete-job heaven.

1. Machinists:
   

2. First-Line Supervisors/Managers of Production and Operating Workers:
   

3. Farmers and Ranchers:
   

4. Computer Operators:
   

5. Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators and Tenders:
   

6. Desktop Publishers:
   

7. Fabric and Apparel Patternmakers:
   

8. Wellhead Pumpers:
   

9. Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors and Processing Machine Operators:
   

10. Semiconductor Processors: