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The worst jobs in history

If you are currently “suffering” at some uninspiring desk job with what you consider to be long hours and pitiful pay, this chart should put your situation into perspective—and you will probably feel better about your lot after reading it. 

History quarterly magazine has created this interesting matrix that highlights some of the worst jobs in history—ranked by how difficult, disgusting, treacherous and tedious each job is, the featured jobs were undertaken at some point in a time period that stretches from the Roman Empire era to 2010.
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