Many of us are probably unhappy with their job or maybe it's too hard or horrible...But I invite you to take a look at the ranking below to see what kind of horrible jobs people had in the past.
Today you will find some of the most bizarre and unusual jobs from the past that may leave you questioning the way people worked in earlier times. Explore these fascinating roles and how they have evolved over the years.
Excrement collector in the Eternal Citadel (Rome)
Will start weirdest jobs with Italy . In Ancient Rome people have had sewage systems, of course, but many of the inhabitants were too poor to pay sanitation taxes and others lived in areas where sewage could not be provided.
But ancient Rome came up with an idea. They hired a man to collect twice a day the excrement of the inhabitants in a big bucket.
Then, the excrement collector would load the barrels with excrement and take it to the farmers who pay for it, as it was good fertilizer for vegetables and grain.
You may think that nobody would have done this job but there were a lot of people who wanted this job and some of them paid to have a better chance of getting the job.
Royal butt wipers
You're probably going to say that these people wiped kings' butts because the kings was paralyzed in bed...But that's not quite true, the people who had this "honorable job" were servants of the king who did a good job and were promoted to wiping the king's butt (what a great level ranking...)
It may sound gross to you but this was an honorable job and many people wanted to have it (including generals and lords,for exemple).
The strange thing is that kings chose sport people (dwarfs) to wipe their asses...why?Because it was not acceptable for the king to bend down to a man of his stature,even if it was the other guy job...
In a late time, the short people got rid of this dirty job that was still honorable.
But who was still wiping the kings' asses?this job fell to the king's secretaries who were also quite close to the king and could talk about almost anything.
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