Worst Jobs in History/YMMV

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  • Squick: Stepping around in stale urine to prepare wool cloth, crushing rotting shellfish to make the colour purple, anything to do with sewerage, but the worst is tanning (which involves scrapping hair, fat and sinew of dead cattle skin and then soaking it in warm dog droppings).
  • Values Dissonance
    • Being a nude model for artists was considered lower than prostitution for women; men, though paid little, got away with it.
    • Acting was considered just as evil, and punishable by having the offender's ears cut off.
    • Children were regularly used in situations where you needed either little hands, little bodies or just someone who would work for less
    • Because women couldn't be musicians, castration was necessary to have vocalists with high voices.
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