Think your job sucks? Well, consider yourself lucky to be pushing that pencil, or even performing the odd menial, mildly degrading task or two. You could have been a Viking Egg-Collector in Scotland circa the year 900, where you probably would have died long before you ever got promoted to Viking Egg-Manager. Or you could have been a factory worker in China, you know, last year. [via Lapham's Quarterly]