Knocker-Up
Want to be hated by a large number of people for simply doing your job? Perhaps a knocker-up would have been your perfect job. The job was invented in 1847 with people being hired to shoot peas through a pea shooter or knock on windows with long poles. Basically, the knocker-up was a human alarm clock. After the alarm clock was born this job quickly fell by the wayside. You might have ensured some people didn’t lose their job for oversleeping but you weren’t making any lifelong friendships with their neighbors.
