Now these professions are out of date.
Most of our contemporaries seeks to find the perfect job. For some it means serious and influential a position in a prestigious company, someone is experiencing considerable satisfaction when his / her qualification, abilities and talents fully in demand in his chosen profession.
In short, we are very spoiled lately. You probably don’t even know what strange and terrible position and profession of getting people throughout centuries of human history. Now we will tell you about the most unsympathetic among them.
The court in the privy
People held at this disgusting post, officially called “court of his Royal Majesty its own restroom” was responsible for assistance to the monarch at the time of departure of natural needs the add-on.
Do not think that this dirty work was considered demeaning. On the contrary, in the XVI-XVIII centuries are the owner of this post – lucky noble origin – was used at the Royal court incredible respect, power and authority. He had access to important secrets and even had the privilege of wearing clothes from the king’s shoulder.
The thief of corpses
With the development of medicine scientists and doctors have become in dire need dead bodies to perform autopsies, that at the time it was considered completely unacceptable from a religious point of view. To help the doctors from the medical schools would no gosausee people who earn a living by selling excavated in the cemeteries of the dead. This dubious practice has given rise to many heated debates, which reached a critical point in the nineteenth century, when it became aware of the crimes committed by serial killers. Immigrants from Ireland William Burke and William hare could not calmly wait for a chance to steal a recently buried body. They quietly killed people and sold their bodies to the teachers of a private anatomy school in Edinburgh.
Synovial
In Ancient Rome sukkawala not only around the cloth but was doing Laundry in the dirty clothes. Even today, the Laundry is rarely anyone raises a lot of enthusiasm, but we don’t find anything disgusting in this desired profession. It turns out that it was not always so.
Synovial spent their time standing in the tub filled with water and alkaline chemicals, while constantly trampled, scraped and wrung out the clothes with their feet, otstiryvaya the fabric from dirt and grease. All anything, but the most affordable alkaline solution in ancient times, urine was collected by synovium in public restrooms.
The pied Piper
The pied Piper was purified urban areas from rapidly growing populations of rodents – vectors of dangerous diseases. Some catchers have become really famous. Jack black, for example, was awarded the honorary title of “the Piper and krotilova Her Majesty” by order of the Queen Victoria. Writer and contemporary of Jack black described terrifying to others the habit of the pied Piper to play with the rodents that he caught:
“I saw him put his hand into the cage and pulled out as many rats as he turned to hold in the hands. His amazing dexterity as usual drew a loud cry of surprise from the surrounding crowd, especially when people noticed that his hands weren’t bitten. Trembling with horror, the women watched as he allows half a dozen disgusting rodents to climb under my shirt and climb bare chest, and men swore that these animals were tame, as it allowed them, like squirrels, running up and down along my arm. Not atravessa eyes from this strange scene, the crowd watched as rodents, sitting on the shoulders of the Piper, clean paws their faces, or standing on their hind legs like a small kangaroo, rubbed a tiny spouts on his ears and cheeks”.
Whipping boy
What will you do if you need to put in place the presumptuous young Prince, while the right to punish a spoiled heir has only a king? It’s very simple: adopt Prince a new playmate, who can ask a good thrashing whenever the Prince is behaving badly. Prince should be ashamed, after all, is the suffering of the innocent mate. Agree, all necessary formalities are met, and the problem looks exhausted.
Surprisingly, sometimes such a post brought its holder additional bonuses and benefits. The ill-fated king of England, Charles I, executed by sentence of Parliament in the mid-seventeenth century, made his whipping boy, William Murray, 1st Earl of Disertum in 1643. No way, out of guilt.
Calculator
Before the change people came computers, calculators typically called workers or, in most cases, workers who manually processing huge amounts of numbers and information.
The Creator of “Babylon”
You believe, like the modern styling of hair sometimes takes too much time and effort? Then you will be interested to know that the record for the cost of funds for the development of the head complex of buildings, from small swirls masterfully stacked tiers, has broken the ancient Roman women. In Ancient Rome, the maid-slave owning art decoration (ars ornatrix), was responsible for creating the trendy pretentious hairstyles. To meet the sophisticated tastes of the Roman fashionistas, so the maids had to deal with a huge number of poorly treatable ingredients because hair dyes in those days were made of rotten leeches, of the liquid ink squid, pigeon droppings and urine.
The boy holding the powder on a military ship
In the era of seafaring nimble and agile boys who served on military ships “powder monkeys”, stuffed ship cannons with gunpowder.
Factory reader
In order to diversify is extremely monotonous and monotonous labor of factory workers on the Assembly line, there was a post of a reader designed to read a work of artistic literature and the newspaper aloud, however, with the widespread proliferation of radios, the need for such a profession anymore.
Responsible for the boiling water
In the middle Ages noble hosts kept in the state for unskilled workers of the person whose duties included the provision of hot water at home: hand wash, fill a hot bath, drying and washing of dirty linen and clothing.
Barber
Imagine the days when people crossed the threshold of not only Barber to cut my hair or tidy beard. Until the nineteenth century in addition to haircuts and shaving, barbers removed clients lice put a bandage in fractures and wounds, reduce a dislocation, did blood-letting, engaged in treatment of the patients teeth and even had the right to resort to small surgical operations.
The phrenologist
Before the science of phrenology has been discredited and has been recognized as scientifically baseless and even racist, people often used the services of phrenologists in order to form bumps of a human skull to make a detailed description of the nature of man, his psychological traits and intellectual abilities.
Royal taster of food
You would spend time working, testing the quality of food and beverages served to the table your employer? You can understand, although in former times this in demand profession could hardly have generated much enthusiasm among its owners. Freedom from political, love and other competitors using a variety of poisons have become so frequent that I was surrounded by enemies and envious of the strong of this world had day and night to hire the services of servants-tasters.
Need a woman
This profession is not exactly the expected career growth or development of creative abilities of its owner, in addition to the woman responsible for emptying chamber pots every day others had to deal with a large number of sewage. However, at the Royal court for this simple work relied very cute at the time wages, and paid food and accommodation.
The alchemist
Among our contemporaries, alchemy often causes grotesque Association with medieval half-mad scientist, obsessed with the idea to turn into gold everything that comes his way. However, alchemy was not so much a waste of time. The founder of modern chemistry, Anglo-Irish scientist Robert Boyle is very often appealed to the scientific developments of the alchemists to Supplement his own works.
Stalker dogs
Owner of the profession were instructed to drive dogs out of Church during the service. It all certainly raises many questions. Why not leave friends alone? Do dogs have caused people so many problems that to deal with them had to create a special position? And finally, what is needed for this qualification?
Witch hunter
For most people this selfless activity rather involves working part-time than full-time employment. However, the Englishman Matthew Hopkins was not like most people. Neglected legal career, this self-proclaimed “chief witch hunter” destroyed a total of about 230 people, driving between 1644 and 1647 for years in the Eastern counties: Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk.
The installer pins
This profession is quite simple. In 1936, in the halls of the bowling of first mechanical devices used for placement of pins. Until that time, this was achieved by specially hired young people.
Carver ice
It today we did not hesitate, pull out the ice cubes from the refrigerator, and in former times there was a need in the dangerous profession of the Carver – human vypilivaem huge blocks of ice from frozen lakes.
Gatherer of leeches
In those days, when medicine was not yet sufficiently developed and doctors often “heal” patients to death by using bloodletting, leeches were used by an incredible demand. In certain historical periods it even reached the point of pianomania when blood-sucking parasites was considered almost a panacea from any illness. People who called themselves collectors of leeches, spent a lot of time Hiking through the swamps and water bodies, using as bait the feet of animals. Selling leeches to medical facilities has brought them to the collectors of a good income.
Chimney sweep
Everyday life of a chimney sweep little resembled the merry life of fairy tale characters. In those countries where the furnaces were heated on a significant part of the year, in chimneys during the winter was formed solid deposits of soot, grime and dust. The working conditions of chimney sweep not known for comfort due to occupational diseases rarely one of them worked until advanced age. Sometimes poor parents for money to put their children apprentice to an experienced chimney sweep. Child it was easier to crawl through the narrow sooty chimney.
Daguerreotypist
The world is not changing: today, everybody is obsessed with selfies, and in 1839, after the presentation in Paris of the first in the world of technology for the production of photographs in Vogue daguerreotypes. Despite the low quality of the images, the process created a furor. Images on silvered plates was made in the secret photographers daguerreotypist.
Alarm clock
Have you ever wondered how people managed to get up in the morning to work in those days when alarm clocks were not in sight? So they used a special person who at the appointed hour was banging on the door or was thrown through the window of the sleeping client of a pea. I want to believe that this solution was effective, because people have alarms’t delayed re-call.
