4 Worst Jobs in History (#1 Paid Surprisingly Well)

Think your job is the worst in the world? This hand-drawn Cave Notes story sends you back to Victorian Britain to try four real jobs for one day each: the human alarm clock, the dog-poop collector, the leech catcher and the sewer treasure hunter. We score every job for gross, danger and pay, and one of them paid surprisingly well. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN THIS VIDEO How knocker-uppers woke whole streets with long poles and pea shooters before alarm clocks were cheap, and who woke the knocker-upper. Why "pure finders" collected dog poop by the bucket, and how tanners used it to make soft leather for gloves and book covers. How leech collectors waded into ponds and used their own legs as bait to feed a leech craze that saw France import about 33 million leeches in a year. What toshers found in London's sewers, why their work was so dangerous, and why they were among the best-paid of the working poor. How the Great Stink of 1858 changed London, which job we vote the worst of all, and the one job that still exists today.