Some of the more repulsive or dangerous jobs included fuller, executioner, leech collector, plague burier, rat-catcher, leather tanner, gong farmer, and sin-eater.
The worst job of the Industrial Revolution was a dibbler on a farm. Firstly, dibbling was back breaking work with long hours. This was because a dibbler was expected to poke holes in the ground to plant seeds from sun up to sun down which was physically demanding. It was also work that was very boring and dusty.
A fuller's job was to place freshly woven lengths of wool cloth into a tub, pour in stale urine, and then stomp it with his or her feet. As if that weren't bad enough, the urine used for this process came from multiple people — as many gallons were needed.
The chaufournier, or limeburner, was a lime kiln operator. In French, the lime kiln is called a four à chaux. In the construction of buildings with very thick walls that were meant to be resistant to gunfire or cannonballs, the mason had to bind the stones to each other with a mortar made of sand and cement.
Ditcher: Dug moats, foundations, mines, etc. without any of the modern day machinery used today.
Chimney sweep
Inhaling the dust and smoke from chimneys meant many chimney sweeps suffered irreversible lung damage. Smaller sweeps were the most sought-after, so many were deliberately underfed to stunt their growth. Most had outgrown the profession by the age of 10.
Poor people could work in mines, in mills and factories, or in workhouses. Whole families would sometimes have to work so they'd all have enough money to buy food. Children in poor families would have jobs that were best done by people who weren't very tall.
In 1871 over 4% of the population was employed 'in service', the majority of them being women. Roles included butler, housekeeper, valet, footman, lady's maid, house maids, under housemaids, laundry maid, cook, kitchen maids, scullery maid, house boy, coachman, groom and stable boy.
The study went on to list some of the loneliest jobs in the world, which included night-shift jobs. It said that tech-driven industries, including package and food delivery services or even online retail, are some of the loneliest jobs and hence, the unhappiest in the world.
Story outline. A Harvard University study found that the loneliest jobs were also the unhappiest. These include remote jobs as well as jobs in tech, food delivery, and the online retail sector. The study was conducted over 85 years.
The top three jobs without job security are cashier, photographer, and actor. Job security refers to the solidity of a role, regardless of external factors that limit less stable positions.
Telemedicine Physician
Ten years ago, the word "telemedicine" didn't exist. Now you can be a telemedicine physician. Telemedicine Physicians consult with patients over video conferencing and advise from there.
Wood patternmaker
What they do: Being a wood patternmaker is the rarest job in the world. Wood patternmakers create wooden molds that are used by metalworkers to cast molten metal.
What work did Victorian children do? In the 1850s one in nine girls over the age of 10 worked as domestic servants for wealthy homes. Poor children often had to work instead of going to school. Many worked with their parents at home or in workshops, making matchboxes or sewing.
This is due to many factors, including low wages, the growth of cities (and general population growth), and lack of stable employment.
The children of the poor were not thought to be a blessing, but often a burden on the family. With no laws to protect children, this meant they had few rights and were badly treated. Seen as simply the property of their parents, many children were abandoned, abused and even bought and sold.
The most familiar images of Victorian life are bleak indeed: impoverished children working long hours in factories and mines; blankets of smog suspended above overcrowded cities; frightening workhouses run by cruel governors; violent criminals lurking in the shadows.
The Victorians liked to have their social classes clearly defined. The working class was divided into three layers, the lowest being 'working men' or labourers, then the 'intelligent artisan', and above him the 'educated working man'. In reality, things were not so tidily demarcated.
Those suspected of heresy and other religious crimes received the severest punishment of all: being burned at the stake. This not only meant a gruesome death, but no less terrible was the fact that due to the total destruction of one's body, one could no longer hope to undergo resurrection.
A common punishment for adulterous women – whipping, head shaving, and parading the adulteress through the streets resembles the entry procedure before enclosure. The husband could take her back or leave her perpetually enclosed.
Many historians believe that children in the Medieval Times were barely noticed and treated as small adults. Boys were forced to do hard labour on the fields, to enter military training or to learn their future occupation already in the early childhood, while girls of all classes had to help their mothers in household.