Yeah you can see that in this chart from FRED: manufacturing employment pretty much fell off a cliff starting in 2000 (it doesn't look too scary, until you look at total employment over those years and realize that at the peak of US manufacturing employment in 1979, there were 19.5 million people employed in that area out of 89.8 million employees total (total nonfarm employees covers about 80% of all employees in the US economy.)
By 2009, there were only 11.9 million people employed in manufacturing, out of 134 million employed Americans. 22% of Americans to 8.9% in 30 years.
Your experience tracks the employment in those sectors.
