00:00Think your job is the worst?
00:01Trust me, it's not.
00:03Meet the Gong Farmer.
00:05His job was to empty the castle's toilets by hand, one bucket at a time.
00:09The fumes could be lethal, and he was only allowed to work at night.
00:12One slip, and you drown.
00:14Or how about a plague doctor?
00:16That creepy mask wasn't just for show.
00:18It was filled with herbs to block out the bad air they thought caused the Black Death.
00:24Their cures were useless, and their job description basically included a 99% chance of catching
00:29the plague and dying in agony.
00:32But the most terrifying job might be the Sin Eater.
00:35When someone died, this village outcast was paid a few coins to perform a ritual.
00:40They would eat bread and ale from the corpse, symbolically taking all the dead person's
00:45sins onto their own soul.
00:47They saved the dead, but believed they were damning themselves to hell for eternity.
00:52Suddenly, that spreadsheet doesn't look so bad, does it?
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