Postal Letter

What were the employment opportunities in colonial Pennsylvania?

This is for a project in US History; I can't find any on it in the book and on the internet. Can someone please help me?

Public Comments

1. "Our early American colonists did not have quite the same employment opportunities as we do today. There were no TV producers, car salesmen, rocket scientists, and certainly no computer programmers. The first emigrants to America had occupations concerned primarily with simple, basic survival in the New World. They were, for the most part, skilled laborers, who could make things most of us now only dabble in as hobbies. Some occupational names were self-explanatory such as a blacksmith, locksmith, and gunsmith. Of course there were also occupations with names that are recognizable today - coroner, bookkeeper, barber, cabinet-maker, weaver, baker, brick-layer, accountant, printer and musician." The source has a long alphabetical list of occupations by name.
2. In colonial Pennsylvania they used an apprenticeship system. If you could become an apprentice, then eventually liffe would be good. There was also all sorts of farming jobs. And of course, you could always start up your own business as did Ben Franklin.