The A-Z of worst jobs
Can't find a particular job? Here we list in alphabetical order all the jobs contained on this website – just click on the name and you will be taken to the job. Jobs in bold are featured in the second series of Channel 4's Worst Jobs in History.
actor, boy
arming squire
asphalt pounder
barber-surgeon
bath attendant
bog iron hunter
boot boy
bridge builder
buffer lass
burier, plague
castrato
chaff-box boy
chain-mail maker
charcoal-maker
chimney sweep, child
climbing boy
coin producer
corn grinder/breadmaker
crossing sweeper
dead, seeker of the
dock porter
dog and cat killer
engine cleaner
executioner
falconer, royal
featherie maker
fen digger
fighting woman
firefighter
fireworker
fish wife
flying man
food taster
fuller
fumigator
fur processor
fusee-chain maker
glass blower
gold miner, Roman
gong scourer/farmer
groom of the chamber
groom of the stool
guillemot-egg collector
gut girl
hermit
hurrier
knocker-up
labourer, rural child
lance maker
lead whiter
leech collector
legger
lifeboatman/woman
lighthouse builder
lighthouse keeper
lime burner
link boy
loblolly boy
match girl
messenger, royal
midshipman
mill scavenger
model, artists
monk, Saxon
navvy
nettle-string maker
nit picker
oarsman, Saxon
painter, dome interior
petardier's assistant
pin-maker
ploughman, Saxon
pottery worker
powder monkey
pugger
pure collector
purple maker
rat catcher
reddleman
riding officer
sailor/warrior, Viking
sailor, Tudor
saltpetre man
scavenger
sedan-chair bearer
sedge harvester
sin eater
shepherd
soap boiler
spitboy
steeple jack
stoker
stone worker
surveyor's pole man
swabber's mate
tanner
thresher
toad eater ('toady')
topman
treadmill worker
turnbrooch
under-sawyer
violin-string maker
washerwoman, royal
water caddy
wattle-and-daub applier
whipping boy
wise woman
woad dyer
wont catcher
workhouse inmate
