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 coal mining to crisp making.
Scroll through the old photos and get a glimpse of what working life was like three decades ago.
21. M&S checkout
A woman pays for her food shopping at a checkout in Marks & Spencer's department store, Princes Street, Edinburgh, May 1993. | TSPL Photo: Jack Crombie
22. Chain-saw sculptor
Children from Burdiehouse primary school watch chain-saw sculptor Nigel Ross at work as part of the Clean-Up and Carve-Up campaign for Festival of the Environment, May 1993. | TSPL Photo: Ian Rutherford
23. Forth Bridge
Track being laid on the Forth bridge in July 1993 | TSPL Photo: Hamish Campbell
24. Highlanders crisps
Some of the former Golden Wonder workers who set up the new Highlanders crisps company pictured in January 1993. | TSPL Photo: Crauford Tait