This selection of pictures taken from the Evening News archive illustrates the incredible variety of jobs people do - from street sweeping to ceiling restoration, firefighting to foot massage and mending cars to making crisps.
Scroll through the old photos and get a glimpse of what working life was like three decades ago.
9. Tattoo artist
Edinburgh tattoo artist Bill Hooper working on a client's arm at his tattoo parlour in Elm Row, November 1992. | TSPL Photo: Crauford Tait
10. Chemical call out
Firemen attend a fire at the Lothian Chemical works in Edinburgh in July 1992. | TSPL Photo: Colin McPherson
11. Monktonhall colliery
Miners working at the coal face in a newly reopened Monktonhall colliery in East Lothian, July 1992. | TSPL Photo: Jeff Mitchell
12. Caledonian Brewery
Employees Bill Edmund (with barrel) and Grahame Wood preparing to open Edinburgh's Caledonian Brewery doors to the public during Brewery Month, September 1992. | TSPL Photo: Colin McPherson