Thought the first round of horrible jobs was bad? Well there’s plenty more where those came from, thanks to some deep Googling and helpful user suggestions. From more jobs that involve the unwanted handling of feces to literally having your blood sucked, they just get worse and worse…
4. Ancient Egyptian Servant
For most of their lives, being a servant to a higher born individual such as the Pharaoh wasn’t too bad. Other than the whole “slavery” aspect of it all, really it was the average life-of-subservience type of existence. Things got real bad when their master’s would die though. In many cases the common custom of the time was to construct elaborate tombs to be sealed for all of eternity…with the servants inside to keep their recently deceased bosses company in the afterlife should their services be required.
5. Leech Collector
Throughout the 19th century in the UK, medical advancement was largely non-existent. If you had chronic migraines, odds are you were probably burned as a witch. That being so, the cure for most other ailments was covering the body in leeches to suck the sick out of you. But before they could be used to cure your imbalanced humors, someone had to gather them. Typically this work was done by poorly paid Scottish women who would wade knee-deep into leech-invested waters. The parasites would latch onto their legs, where the collector would have to remove them before the they would cause you to pass out from either infection of massive blood loss.
6. Groom of the Stole
This last one really takes the cake. Dating back to the early 17th century, the Groom of the Stole was, for lack of a better term, the royal ass-wiper. Whenever a royal felt a bowel movement coming on, the groom would throw up some sheets around the nearest hole in the ground and undress the royal so as to expedite the process in a dignified manner. Once the business was finished, the groom would then clean, fragrance, and re-clothe the kingly buttocks.
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