15 Worst Jobs Ever

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5 – Snake Milker,

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  • This is a job still around today, to get your venomous snake to squirt its venom into a cup to create an antivenin used to treat snake bites
  • In fact, one legendary snake milker named Bill Haast survived over 172 venomous snake bites during the whole of his 100 year career
  • This is mostly due to the fact he was a snake milker, so antivenin was abundant and the snake responsible very close by

4 – Plague Burier,

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  • The Black Death which swept through Europe, leaving piles and piles of bodies rotting in people’s houses
  • If you’ve watched some Monty Python, you’ll know about the old quote “Bring our yer dead”, but that really is what happened – someone was hired to go around with a cart collecting bodies to head off and bury them
  • And the employees were then riddled with disease from the decomposing corpse, so not long after they got sick and had to be dumped on another cart moved by some other unlucky fool

3 – Groom of the Stool,

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  • A fancy way to describe someone hired by royalty to stand in the toilet with them and then wipe their grotty ass-crack and clean it
  • But they weren’t slaves, oh no – more often than not you’ll find the sons of noblemen or personal assistants to the King very high up on social standing
  • To be selected to clean the gunk off a royal anus was quite the honour, and it’s a shame we’re today forced to do it ourselves like savage cave-men

2 – Tosher,

1746-1969

  • A person who used to scavenge in the sewers of London, stripping valuable copper from the hulls of ships and stealing tradable treasures flushed down sewers
  • This occupation made you smell like garbage 24/7, so you might imagine they weren’t very popular when encountered

1 – French Beggar

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  • This is barely an occupation, more of a desperate act for homeless people to get by day-to-day
  • It was pre-revolution France and beggar competition was intense, so the idea came up to invoke as much sympathy from donators as possible
  • The worst of which involved something called denatsate, in which the mouth is cut open ear-to-ear in a joker’s grin – gums and nose removed, a disfigured face pleading with you for coins
  • Puts things into perspective next time you complain about your 9/5 job

 

 

 

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