BANGALORE: Hate your job? If so, you can console yourself with the fact that no matter how stressful or boring or annoying your job is, it could always be worse. Very few people wake up excited to go to work every day. Even if you’re well paid, doing what you set out to do and have a fair degree of autonomy, you can’t help but just think that the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. If you’re eager to take a note, here is a list of 5 of the worst jobs in the history, as listed by Eli Zwillenberg of the Richest.
Groom Of The Stool: The Groom of the Stool is just how it sounds. The man who held this position literally ensured that there were proper facilities for the monarch’s defecation, and assisted in washing thereafter. By today’s standards, this profession would be the most humiliating job available; however, due to the understanding of the job’s duties and responsibilities, the Groom of the Stool became a trusted advice-giver to all sorts of private information. Over the decades, the Groom of the Stool’s position evolved into one of great political influence. Several of those that served under Henry VII and Henry VIII became knighted and oversaw national fiscal policy.
Gong Farmer: Next on the list is gong farmer, which is nothing but a sewage worker. Even though it’s a pretty secure job, the gong farmers are usually forced to work only overnight. They are not allowed to live in decent areas of the city and they very often found themselves neck deep in human excrement. Gong farmers job involves high risk as the cleaning process contains fumes that could choke workers to death. Even with the technology coming in these days with the sewer job, not many people want to be at this profession because it involves lot of risk and job hazard too.
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