A grotesque career that ever existed on Earth.

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A grotesque career that ever existed on Earth.

1. Knocker-upper:

Before there was a cheap alarm clock. In England there was a "window knocker" profession. He would walk holding a long stick to knock on a customer's bedroom mirror in the dark morning to get up to work. Or someone would use a "pea seed blower pipe" to shoot at the glass until the customer woke up waving. This profession disappeared when the alarm clock became widespread in the 1940s.

Reference source: BBC News - The human alarm clocks of the industrial revolution

2. The aristocrat who oversees the "shit bucket" king (Groom of the Stool):

This is an honorable (but perhaps illustrious) career in the British royal family. The main function is to help the king take off his clothes and "clean up" after excretion. But believe it? This is a very powerful position because he is so close to the king at the most personal time that he often becomes a confidant counselor who holds the secrets of the land.

Reference Source: Historic UK - The Groom of the Stool

3. Resurrection Men:

In an era when medical education began to prosper, but the law did not recognize the donation of bodies, "diggers" became a huge-grossing profession, and they would secretly dig bodies from cemeteries at night to sell them to medical schools to dissect the principal, until relatives had to build an "iron cage" to cover their graves to prevent theft.

Reference Source: The Lancet - The business of body snatching

4. Leech Collector:

In the past, "leeches" were all kinds of drugs used by doctors to suck blood out of the body. Most of them were poor women who would walk into the mud marshes and use their "own legs" as bait for leeches to come to the island. When the leeches were full of legs, they would come out in bottles to sell them, which of course they regularly faced severe bleeding and infection.

Reference Source: Science Museum Group - The grim life of a leech collector

5.Human Calculator (Computers):

The word "Computer" originally meant not machines, but "employees" (mostly women) who worked in large rooms to calculate astronomical and military numbers purely by hand before the first digital computers emerged. These were the ones behind the orbital calculations that successfully sent humans to step on the moon.

Reference Source: NASA - When the Computer Wore a Skirt

"The career you're doing today...It may seem ordinary compared to what our ancestors did for money.

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