Gong Farmer (Worst Jobs in History)

A job as disgusting as it was dangerous, until the development of modern plumbing the gong farmer filled an important role within Medieval / Tudor communities.

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Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage, Volume 1
By Carl A. Zimring

Archaeologies of waste: encounters with the unwanted
By Daniel Sosna, Lenka Brunclíková

Encyclopedia of the Medieval World by Edward D. English

[WhiteSpermWhale]

That feeling when you get promoted from hole-man to rope-man.

[gaiusjuliuscaesar]

And this is why we should thank humanity for a proper plumbing system.

[BigslattYSL]

F in the chat for that 14th century worker 3:38

[dr.snowman]

Pick your class:

Knight 2.99$
Squire 1.99$
King 5.99$
Queen 10.99$
Gong farmer free

Credit to EA

[rainmanslim]

I sincerely hope Gong farmers were treated well by their local towns. It was a dirty, miserable, largely thankless and disgusting job, but an absolute necessity.

[Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access]

I always thought gongs were made out of like brass or something

I never knew they were grown on farms

[Iasher]

I used to be deadly afraid of drowning in a lake or ocean, that fear is gone now.

I have a worse one now.

[radjadawamindra]

When you dissatisfied with your job, you just need to see this video to make you grateful on your job

[crissreznor]

Bless the “Nightmen” “holeman” “ropeman” and “Tubman”

[davimatias]

When you eat that expired burrito
2:32

[NameTheUnnamed]

*is eating food*
Simple history: I'm about to end this man's whole career

[ImKarl]

This job probably used to be one of the most important jobs back then.

[teddyn]

2:33 That guy must have just eaten from the ye old taco ball.

[jaridkeen]

I'm shutting while watching this...

[UCSPanther]

Gong Farmer would make a hilarious RPG class. As perks, a gong farmer would have bonuses to disease resistance, endurance, climbing, digging and two handed weapons (Shovels and pitchforks). However, they suffer a penalty to any charisma, appearance or speech checks due to the nature and perception of their profession. Gong farmers would also have class powers, such as inflicting disease on a successful hit and creating clouds of stench that incapacitate foes with eye-watering sewer aroma.

[BigBossXCV]

"Modern plumming"
Romans already had the sewers

[thenetwork]

Thank god we have technology today. Be thankful.

[TU-mfut]

In an RPG system called Dungeon Crawl Classics, this is one occupation a character could receive. I always wondered what that bag of "night soil" they get is.

[NewbyTon]

And they said gongs don't grow on trees






They were right they don't grow on anything.

[ayyjayy]

*looks at thumbnail* I’ll save this one for next week...