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.
25. Edinburgh Crystal factory
Andy Anderson uses a natural gas blowtorch making glass at the Edinburgh Crystal factory in Penicuik, April 1993. | TSPL Photo: Ian Rutherford
26. Marketing department
Emma Holland in the marketing department of Scotsman Publications on North Bridge Edinburgh, March 1993. | TSPL Photo: Denis Straughan
27. Harry Ramsden's
A member of staff frying chips at the takeaway section of Harry Ramsden's restaurant/fish & chip shop at Newhaven in July 1993. | TSPL Photo: Bill Henry
28. UCI, Fort Kinnaird
The booking office of the 12-screen multiplex cinema at Craig Park (aka UCI 12, Fort Kinnaird) in Newcraighall Edinburgh, which opened in July 1990. | TSPL Photo: Albert Jordan