Comments on: 10 Jobs You Didn’t Hear About on Career Day

By: Katie Rose

Katie Rose — Thu, 13 May 2010 14:56:23 +0000

I never heard any little kids claim they wanted to be a plumber.

I would have substituted “ballerina’ in there for the ladies.

By: Jim Rowan

Jim Rowan — Thu, 13 May 2010 09:30:24 +0000

I once read that another job in Olde England was referred to as “Fart catcher”. This old boy was to walk behind his master doing his bidding like carrying packages, knocking on doors and laying his jacket over puddles in the streets.

By: jessie

jessie — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:57:54 +0000

how old are rat catchers?

By: Joe Brush

Joe Brush — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:29:12 +0000

I was a Sin-Eater once in seventh grade. Sort of. Around that time the infamous storyline in the Spider-Man comics dealt with a character Jeanne DeWollfe (sp?) being murdered by a villain called “The Sin Eater”. I was deep into that story at that point, “It’s the quiet, unobvious ones you have to watch out for” is still one of my life rules (along with “Don’t play cards with a guy named ‘Doc’, Don’t eat at a place called ‘Mom’s', and never ever sleep with anyone with more troubles than you”)

During an English grammar class, we had a quiz, and I wrote “Sin-Eater” at the top, as a word doodle, not as a name header or anything. But I forgot to put my name on the quiz.

Hence I was known as a “Sin-Eater” for a brief (two months) time.

By: Jennie

Jennie — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:58:42 +0000

In reference to the “knocker-up,” it reminded me of a phrase like it, something also called something like “woman-getters.” I think I learned it from a Victorian novel (not Dickens, but something around that time). They were called “woman-getters,” or something like that–their job was to impregnate women who had received the death sentence, thereby extending her life. It didn’t last very long, though. The women were still executed after the baby was born.