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Prostitution.
Either hunter or gatherer, depending on how our original ancestors fell on the carnivore-omnivore-herbivore scale.
The standard answer is prostitute... even primates are likely to give out more readily in response to gifts
I would say, prostitution would have to be.
prostitute and carpenter
I know you always hear that it is prostitution, but that isn't really a profession. I think banking is the oldest profession, strangely enough.
There was not many but maybe slightly more choice than there is during the economic recession!
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Merchant. profession is described as "Anyway in which you earn money to live" and money wasn't even used, it was around 5000 BC that metal objects were used as money. In the old time people farmed and hunted to make food to eat but then merchants from Mesopotamia started to buy food from the farmers and setup markets to sell it so people who cannot grow or hunt their food they were able to get their food. So technically the oldest profession in the world is the profession of trade.
Parenting
Prostitute maybe, but if you can classify "Guy who beats/kills other guys and takes their stuff" as a profession (Mugger?) then maybe that. Gotta be one of the two.
Food Production
Pimping
Loan shark
Rancher/Farmer??? +5
Farmer or Shepherd.
Professional apple eater. Adam was the first employed to do something.
Everyone keeps repeating the old adage and saying prostitution, but I have to disagree.
I think soldiering is the oldest profession.
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Actually, prostitution is the second oldest because you gotta have something to pay with. Farmer is the oldest, traditionally. As soon as there was wealth, then there were people using their first "dollar" to buy sex, see?
by PaulD1600 on August 1st, 2009
And there had to be an egg to hatch to produce that first chicken :D
by MarthaStewart on August 17th, 2009
I tried lol thanks!
by Autism Knows is finally Maestro on November 23rd, 2009
lol...Thanks
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