The Vizier

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The Vizier is the pharaoh's right hand man.
The job is usually handed down from father to son so that means that you are very unlikely to land this key position.
Potters scrabble in a field with your clothes caked with mud, or work at a rickety potter's wheel with clay spraying everywhere.
A weaver will slave all day in a gloomy stuffy weaving room on your knees all day.
If you are a weaver and you take the day of you will get lashes off the whip 50 times.
A soldier likes facing his or her mortal enemy armed with only a club or sear and wearing just a ron on your body.
Some jobs for girls and women are stay at home and look after family but you could be a weaver.
Most people like to be a scribe because you get to be your own boss. You are well paid, and you don't have to pay taxes.
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If you wanted to be a scribe you would have to be one of the few that knew how to read and write.
Being a scribe is a difficult job because there were hundreds of different hieroglyphs to remember.
It took 12 years to train as a scribe.
Only boys went to school to learn how to be a scribe.
Scribes used paper called papyrus which was made from reeds.
The scribe wrote about everyday life and extraordinary happenings in ancient Egypt.
Their job was to write letters for fellow villagers who couldn't write.
Recording the amount of crops harvested
Calculating the amount of food needed to feed the tomb workers
Keeping accounts and ordering supplies for temples and the Egyptian army

Craftsmen were the ones who created necklaces, bracelets, collars, earrings and more from gold, stones and glass.
The work of a jeweler was divided among many people. To make the necklace one person would make the beads, another would drill the holes in the beads, and a third would thread them onto papyrus

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