A Few More Interesting Jobs

Amanda spent a month or more in Spain, France and North Africa a few years ago and came home with many interesting photos. Here are a few more that I thought were some unusual Jobs.


This is in Africa. He is the village "Water Boy". If you didn't bring your own water with you then this is who tourists had to go to, to purchase a drink of water. Don't you just love his outfit?

Sevilla, Spain this is the Moores house, the Muslim rulers of Spain, summer home. They traveled to Spain every summer to take in the Bull fights. This man stands on his ladder 10 hours every day. It is his job to Clean and Polish every square inch of this massive cathedral. He is not painting he is polishing! He is the only one that is allowed to do this. He learned this skill from his father who also spent everyday on this ladder polishing this cathedral and now his son is doing it. This job will be passed down to his son. Apparently this is a very prestigious job. The arch he is working on opens up into...



...a court yard that is home to this thousand year old tree. Isn't it beautiful! Not a job I know but very beautiful.

These are the tiles in the courtyard. This floor tells the Moorish history. It was somebodies job to "Journal" that history. A new tile was added anytime there was a change in their status. Such as wars, who they faught, why they faught, peace time, health, births, weddings etc. Not quite the golden plates but a journal none the less. And I can barely keep one with a computer that lets me type as fast as I can. I don't have to go out and chisle it into the cement or on a golden plate.


This is a father (sitting along wall) and son (standing far left),in Africa, and they are weaving a fancy suit for a business man in America. The boy is holding the woolen threads I'm amazed that he is weaving a suit not a square/rectangle rug but a suit with lots of curves. Now that's hard work and very impressive!

Okay this isn't a job but just interesting. This is in Sevilla, Spain and those four statues are holding up a coffin which is the final resting place for Christopher Columbus! Amanda was nearly jailed for taking this photo. Apparently you are not allowed to use a FLASH in ANY of these old places because the flash destroys the artifacts. Especially the rugs and painting on the walls. So she snapped this photo and almost had MY camera confiscated and herself jailed. They realized they hadn't told their group the rules! Anyway we are forturnate to have this photo because the others are rather dark.

This last one is my favorite job! This is the village cat in Morocco,North Africa and he is a celebrity there. He literally sits on his butt all day long! He doesn't sit like a cat but like a human would, that's why he is so popular...too funny. Now that's the job to have!