The 10 Worst Jobs in History - How History Works

[@alpmarangoz]

What is the deal with the numbers in brackets coming up?

[@weidergonga2997]

Those are sources

[@vincentmiller420]

The Nomenclators Job still exists actually.

[@cchutney348]

You know shit is for real when galley slaves are number four.

[@patrickbueno3279]

Eh, most of his list aren't even that bad.

[@surfergurlzrock]

Dishonorable mention: dial painters of watches in the early 1920s during the era of Radium paint. Lip pointing brushes to get them fine enough to paint numbers meant that they would have ingested small amounts of radium with every single stroke of the brush. All of these women ended up dying horrible deaths due to radiation poisoning, actually mirroring the symptoms of phossy jaw in most cases cause of the method of radiation exposure. Great vid.

[@lifeisshort.9869]

Yeah I saw the pictures, I wish I didn't.

[@victoriousness]

How is matchmaker not #1? Lower jaw amputation sounds absolutely horrifying.

[@user-nu8in3ey8c]

I think the Galley slave is still probably the most unpleasant and brutal, during the period where they were kept as galley slaves for their entire lives. It is right up there with the matchmaker one I think. Those two seem like top competitors for the number one spot as worst career.

[@TheBeriney]

And the real reason these jobs don't exist anymore? Technology, and Unions. We'd all still be in the coal mines 14 hours a day if it wasn't for unions.

[@Septimus_ii]

Remember that many of these worst jobs were chosen over remaining a subsistence farmer, something that hundreds of millions of people are still stuck in to this day

[@gray3589]

Ye, they coulda just chosen the default job of the time....

[@luisfilipe2023]

Better to be a subsistence farmer then any of these

[@faiq026]

No, people who didn't do the farming possibly don't have the land. You're lucky if you born to a family with big patch of lands, not just any land but those who strategically placed in a good irrigation and road for the ease of logistics, that if you don't have to get involved into a fierce fight with your siblings to get your parent's heritage

[@danielhale1]

Honestly, there's so many worse jobs. Miner and peasant infantry don't make the cut? Their jobs were horrific.

[@the11382]

Don't forget about jobs done by children. I'm glad we have child labor laws.

[@cupidsfavouritecherub9327]

Man I am so glad I was born in the 21st century

[@luisfilipe2023]

Me too

[@ryanrigley]

I thought salt miner would be the worst job.

[@mattcollins4550]

Mike Rowe is calling.... and I made the mistake of watching this while eating breakfast

[@cristhianramirez6939]

Anything involving industrials ovens is a bad job, worst if it is in poor conditions or in the past, and worst yet if it includes glass making

[@patriciaa4451]

Nomenclator was like Gary from 'Veep'.

[@earthsteward9]

Groom of the stool had a crappy job

[@RobVI]

Why did I think dating coach when he said match maker

[@boowiebear]

Source references are distracting.

[@sourabhmayekar3354]

Wow

[@zaco-km3su]

I can tell you that galley rowers were not slaves at least quite often.

[@scuttlebum]

Love the "Perfume" reference

[@behrensf84]

Groom of the stool sucked…

[@maybe8650]

Puddle furnace worker? Brakeman? Dude do some research it works with you’re other channel

[@maybe8650]

@@bill_the_butcher but clearly not enough