Weird Work

Hackers

• work with trees

• cut hair

• are surgeons

• are doctors

A Gandy Dancer

• danced for a living

• worked on the railroads

• was a servant

• worked in theatre

A kneeler was a man who

• swept roads

• cleaned chimneys

• prayed professionally

• cleaned shoes

Computers were women who calculated figures for companies like NASA

• True

• False

Billy boys were young apprentices in training that would make lunch for the other men at work.

• True

• False, they made tea.

• False, they made coffee

• False, the Billy Girls made lunch

A Pinsette

• sets up bowling pins and a bowling ally

• makes aprons (pinnies)

• makes pins for sewing

• trims bushes

A chandler

• looks after horses

• makes chandeliers (big lights)

• makes candles

• tests food for the Queen

A costermonger

• sells fruit

• sells meat

• sells fish

• sells flowers

A peruker makes

• wigs

• plates

• saddles

• shoes

A ripper

• cuts materials

• operates on patients

• sells fish

• kills animals