I, Lynn Haman, make it my duty to find the strangest jobs just to make us feel a little better about our own jobs.  And we are back with the strangest jobs in history.
 #3 Fuller
According to Wikipedia, Fulling, also known as tucking or waulking, is a step in woollen clothmaking which involves the cleansing of cloth (particularly wool) to eliminate oils, dirt, and other impurities, and making it thicker. In days gone by, the fullers were often slaves. In Roman times, fulling was conducted by slaves standing ankle deep in tubs of human urine and cloth. Urine was so important to the fulling business that urine was taxed. Urine, known as ‘wash’, was a source of ammonium salts and assisted in cleansing and whitening the cloth. By the medieval period, fuller’s earth, a clay material that has the capability to decolorize oil or other liquids without chemical treatment, had been introduced, pretty much eliminating the need for urine in the process.
Man after reading about Fulling, I am so glad I only have to clean the bathrooms!
~Lynn~

I, Lynn Haman, make it my job to find the strangest jobs just to make us feel a little better about our jobs.  And we are back with the top ten strangest jobs in history.
 #4 Toshers and Mudlarks
According to Wikipedia, A tosher was someone who scavenged in the sewers, especially in London during the Victorian period. The word tosher was also used to describe the thieves who stripped valuable copper from the hulls of ships moored along the Thames.  It was a common sight in 19th Century for whole families to whip off a manhole cover and go down into the sewers, where they would find rich pickings. As most toshers would reek of the sewers, they were not popular with the neighbors. Mudlarks would search the muddy shores of the River Thames at low tide for anything that could be sold; and sometimes, when occasion arose, pilfering from river traffic.  They would have to wade through unprocessed sewage and even sometimes dead bodies in order to find little treasures to sell. In a kind of weird twist, this is now the popular hobby of some middle class Londoners who travel the banks to clean up trash.
 ~Lynn~

Haman’s Highlights
Good day everyone.  Lynn Haman here, and it is my job to surf the world wide web and find the dirtiest, rottenest jobs just to make us feel a little better about our jobs.  Haman High Lights brings you “Just Another Reason to Love Your Job”.
We are back with the Top Ten Strangest Jobs in History, brought to you from Listverse.com - #3

Whipping Boy:  A whipping boy, in the 1600s and 1700s, was a young boy who was assigned to a young prince and was punished when the prince misbehaved or fell behind in his schooling. Whipping boys were established in the English court during the monarchies of the 15th century and 16th century. They were created because the idea of the Divine Right of Kings, which stated that kings were appointed by God, and implied that no one but the king was worthy of punishing the king’s son. Since the king was rarely around to punish his son when necessary, tutors to the young prince found it extremely difficult to enforce rules or learning. Whipping boys were generally of high birth, and were educated with the prince since birth. Due to the fact that the prince and whipping boy grew up together since birth, they usually formed an emotional bond. The strong bond that developed between a prince and his whipping boy dramatically increased the effectiveness of using a whipping boy as a form of punishment for a prince. The idea of the whipping boys was that seeing a friend being whipped or beaten for something that he had done wrong would be likely to ensure that the prince would not make the same mistake again.  Tune in next time to find out the next strangest job… same Success day, same Success time!

Until then, good day everybody!
~Lynn~

Haman’s Highlights
Good day, everyone!  April is here, and summer is on the way.  My name is Lynn Haman, and I make it my job to surf the world wide web and find the worst jobs in the world just to make you, no us, the everyday average Joes and Janes, feel a little better about our jobs.  Haman’s Highlights brings you “Just Another Reason to Love Your Job”.

To start out the month of April, I am bringing you the first job from a list of the Top Ten Strangest Jobs in History.  These jobs no longer exist in our time, but were real jobs in the past!

Funeral Clown:  Funerals are depressing.  Clowns can scare the heck out of some people.  From Listverse.com: The funeral clown was paid to dress up as the dead person, wear a mask of his face, and dance about acting like him. The Romans believed that this would placate the spirits of the dead and bring joy to the living. As the funeral processed, the funeral clown would run alongside the corpse with other clowns making jokes and mimicking the dead. Some clowns were very highly regarded and even got to mock the emperor at his funeral. They were well paid and an oddly happy diversion from the clowns regular job as the head of a mime troupe.  I don’t think this would go over very well today!  Who would hire a clown for a funeral anyway?

Have a great day everyone!
~Lynn~

Haman’s Highlights
Hello there.  My name is Lynn Haman.  I make it my job to surf the world wide web looking for the worst, nastiest jobs out there in the world, just to make us, the plain average Joes and Janes, like our jobs just a little bit more.  Haman’s Highlights brings you “Just Another Reason to Love Your Job”.

Window Cleaner in New York City:  In the ‘Big Apple,’ cleaning windows on the tallest buildings in the world might look like a high, but hanging at least 100 feet in the air is no walk in the park. You better strap on that bungee cord because one wrong move and you will go splat on the pavement like cherry pie.  Man, I don't know about you, but I am staying on the ground washing windows.

Have a great day everybody!
~Lynn~