[Super Mario]

Is tool making, not the other one. There was no money for the other one for thousands of years later. Everytime the news says a crime ring has been smashed they always say prostitution is the oldest job. Where do the media get such stupid ideas from?

[- - e r i k - -]

Hehe. I thought of the same thing when I clicked the topic. It was arrowmaking, not prostitution. It is also mentioned in one of the Terry Pratchet Discworld novels I read lately.

[ManOfSteal]

Prostitution.

[mitchell_pgh]

Why do you think they were trying to make the tools?

It's prostitution.

[Ghoser777]

Haha, you said "tool."

[The Windozer]

If chimpanzees can trade sex for food or other services...

[Super Mario]

Silliness.
First job was sitting in the tree looking out for lions.
Second job was making a tool to eat ants with.
Third job was banging wife. Not a prostitute unless you feel all women are whores
Fourth job was making a better tool to kill animals with. More people need more protein.
Fifth job was chef.
Sixth job was using a tool to dig caves or chop trees.
Seventh job was being a story teller which became a priest.
Eighth job was a village leader who became kings and presidents, ministers, asshats.
When population rose too high there were not enough jobs for people.
Ninth job was welfare officer!
Welfare wasn't enough so prostitution became the tenth job.
Prostitutes main clients came from jobs seventh and eight.

[TubaMuffins]

i always thought thievery was the oldest proffesion in the world

[deomacius]

Originally Posted by Super Mario

Silliness.

Fourth job was making a better tool to kill mother in-laws with.

Fixed!

[tavilach]

Fools. The oldest profession was serial killer. Picture a little bacterium floating around, swallowing up a family of bacteria. Sick bastards!

[Randman]

Hunter would be the oldest.

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by Randman

Hunter would be the oldest.

That's what I was thinking too.


Super Mario: I don't think they had marriage back then...

[The Godfather]

Originally Posted by Super Mario

Is tool making, not the other one. There was no money for the other one for thousands of years later. Everytime the news says a crime ring has been smashed they always say prostitution is the oldest job. Where do the media get such stupid ideas from?

When the media can't admit that the police did their job right, they defend the busted whores.

[mitchell_pgh]

Originally Posted by Randman

Hunter would be the oldest.

More like "scavenger" if you ask me.

[rozwado1]

How 'bout Gatherers. Pre-hunting. No tools nece.

[Randman]

Scavenger wouldn't be a profession. Hunter would be. Gatherer would be.

[esXXI]

Originally Posted by Super Mario

Is tool making, not the other one. There was no money for the other one for thousands of years later. Everytime the news says a crime ring has been smashed they always say prostitution is the oldest job. Where do the media get such stupid ideas from?

Payment !== Money.

Early woman notices that early man wants to get his stone-age rocks off, woman takes advantage and won't until he gives her something she wants. I'd say that's a pretty old profession.

I agree that 'hunter' would be oldest, since that'd been around since we ate other early organisms for energy.

[Stogieman]

Originally Posted by Randman

Scavenger wouldn't be a profession. Hunter would be. Gatherer would be.

Why wouldn't scavengers be a profession? Are they not the garbage men of the wild?

[wdlove]

I would also say that farming and hunting were the first professions.

[analogika]

farming didn't happen until MUCH MUCH later, wdlove.

[pooka]

Originally Posted by esXXI

Early woman notices that early man wants to get his stone-age rocks off, woman takes advantage and won't until he gives her something she wants. I'd say that's a pretty old profession.

Sounds like marriage to me.

[Millennium]

Money isn't really an obstacle, per se. Other forms of economics, notably the barter system, existed long before money did. Money as we know it is thought to be only about 2500 years old, having come from an empire called Lydia under the reign of Croesus. If you've ever wondered where the phrase "as rich as Croesus" comes from, that's where.

[Oisín]

Croesus was the king of Lydia at one point, but not necessarily the point where money 'emerged'. As far as we learnt it in high school, that was much earlier, and of course also much more gradually. The oldest money-like objects found are over 3000 years old; I think they're polished tortoise shell pieces, or bone pieces, or something like that, with some sort of symbol carved into them to designate their value.

[budster101]

Originally Posted by Super Mario

Is tool making, not the other one. There was no money for the other one for thousands of years later. Everytime the news says a crime ring has been smashed they always say prostitution is the oldest job. Where do the media get such stupid ideas from?

I thought that trade was the first profession.

I have this, you want it, you have that, I want that, let's trade. Even before tools were invented.

On second thougth it is prostitution.

The first couple ever Caveman and Cavewoman( Adam and Eve qualify for this argument) see each other. Caveman will now be referred to as man, and Cavewoman, woman.

Scenario:

Man: He see woman. Woman look good.
Woman: She no interested. Man have nothing she want.
Man: Man see what want.
Woman: Realize man want her apple, and offer apple for trade.
Man: What man can give?, grunt. Man go get water and meat.
Woman: she like very much. Give man apple. Apple is now considered the payment for the 'meat'.

(Hint: Meat not meat. It's meat.)

[Superchicken]

My guess would be gardener and stay at home mom