5 Dream Jobs that Used to Really Suck
In case you ever wished for a more glamorous career
Have you ever sat down in your dimly lit cubicle and longed for a more glamorous job? Maybe you wish you had never given up on your dream to be an actress, singer, or professional athlete. If only you could go back in time.
But not too far back in time. Because if you time-traveled to another century…the following dream jobs would have really sucked.
Actor/Actress
Today, you might wag a finger at actresses who fly their friends to island paradises for birthday celebrations. You might even call them “hypocrites.”
Twenty-five hundred years ago in Ancient Greece, that is exactly what actors were called. In Greek, the word “hypocrite” means “stage actor, pretender or dissembler.”
Typically, one ancient hypocrite could play as many as thirty roles in a day, and they were on stage from morning to late evening. These ancient actors were compensated well, though. In the first century A.D, Roman actors were paid five hundred sesterces per performance — about six months' pay for a soldier.
But by the sixteenth century, actors could barely afford a leg of lamb on their day’s wages. These actors were called “players” but were not the heartthrob…
