The phrase "ancient job" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a profession or occupation that has existed for a long time, often associated with historical or traditional practices.
Example: "The ancient job of blacksmithing has been passed down through generations, preserving techniques that date back thousands of years."
Alternatives: "historic profession" or "traditional occupation".
In the early 13th century, his disciple and nephew, Rāghavāṅka, wrote, in ṣaṭpadis (six-line stanzas), of the lives of saints, in well-structured works such as Sōmanātha Carite and Siddharāma Caritra; his most mature work is Hariścandrakāvya, an unequalled reworking of an ancient Job-like story of Hariścandra, who suffered every ordeal for his love of truth.
The position of lord mayor is an ancient, honorary job that involves riding in a coach wearing a big hat, eating a great many dinners and proposing a lot of toasts.
Our route between Salalah and the Empty Quarter took in vast forests of the Boswellia trees, which yield frankincense, the ancient Tomb of Job (yes, that Job) high above Salalah, and Shisr, the Bedouin village that may or may not hold the millenniums-old remains of a city known to explorers as "Atlantis of the Sands".
IN ANCIENT Rome the job of ensuring competition in the entertainment industry fell to a lanista.
But Morton and co made this a while ago, and if he is a djinn and a seer, he's also a psychopomp: one of those ancient spirits whose job is to lead us benignly into hell.
Significantly accompanied by the circling strains of Philip Glass's Akhnaten – an opera about a monotheistic Egyptian pharaoh that echoes the church/state hegemony of Zvyagintsev and co-writer Oleg Negin's narrative – Leviathan transposes the ancient trials of Job to the modern Kola peninsula via Thomas Hobbes's 1651 book, to which the screenplay directly alludes.
Like so many ancient texts, from Job to the Burmese Pali writings that found Buddhism, Beowulf explores and finally asserts God's providence, and the triumph over evil: Beowulf the King is an explicitly Christian vanquisher, despite the pagan world in which he operates, and the pagan pyre on which he is memorialised by his loving subjects.
I'd imagine that in ancient times those jobs would be specialized.
Our Work: Modern Jobs – Ancient Origins, an exhibition of photographic portraits, explores how cultural achievements of the ancient Middle East have created or contributed to much of modern life.
Distal-less seems to have performed more ancient and basic jobs before being exapted to speckle the wings of butterflies (see True and Carroll 2002 for a review of this example).
