Pretty cool job

I am now accepting offers to be some rich person’s hermit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_hermit

For more info

Nice

The trend continued through the 1830s, when the idea became less popular as estate landscaping concepts evolved.
- It developed into groundskeeping professions, essentially. Estates built in the 19th century commonly would have a groundskeepers house. They've long been demolished or since subdivided into their own properties but they exist(ed) even in west coast USA.

I remember hearing on No Such Thing As A Fish that one hermit was fired after their patron found them down at the local pub instead of living the solitary life they were being paid for

Wait, so, essentially an actually living, human scarecrow?

Basically a security guard that functions via playing into superstitions as opposed to openly displaying armor and weapons?

I mean, you get a home and food and basically 0 commute along with this job, that's waaaay fucking better than 99% of jobs I've heard of or seen.

Like what would the rough equivalent to modern norms be... the lord doesn't pay you enough to maintain and upkeep both a hovel and a horse, but you are required to own a horse to even apply...?

Sorta not really, a living part of the scenery often with their homes in follies so as the landowner and their friends walk about they see a random dude dressed like fuckin Merlin walking about living in a cave or fake ruin.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_hermit
- So more of a live-in Disney Land mascot.
  
  Still, home and food paid for, your job is basically... rp as a druid at a renfaire?
  
  Sounds like a decent retirement or 'i need a change of pace' gig to me, I know plenty of people that pay to be able to do that.

There's a burnt down and abandoned manor about 10 minutes walk from me, now owned by the Freemasons, has a hermitage carved into the sandstone (or limestone idk) cliff face, as well as a tunnel leading from the local castle to the manor as a means of escape (something like 1.5 miles).

The hermatige is pretty small, about 10x10 foot in the main room, with a super high 15-20ft ceiling.

There's another mystery cave carved into the cliff, which is about 30x15 foot with pillars supporting the ceiling carved out of the rock.

The manor has been used in one form or another basically continuously since the crusades, and then intermittently before then, earliest record is a Roman reference to a spring around the location, there is also a Saxon era water mill

Must have been easier in those days. I've had my listing up for a yard druid for 6 months now and little interest. Is minimum wage and garden hose access not enough anymore? Nah people just don't want to work 😕

I was born too late. That seems like the perfect job for me.

"Although not mandatory, we encourage the participants to dress up like druids"

It was only after I realized this wasn't referring to hermit crabs that this made sense.