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Dienstbode: Not an occupation that still goes by that name. It's like the maid, including opening the door and passing along messages, like a butler. Often work for young females before they were married, but it was not solely a profession for women. In male diensbodes work may have included caring for the horses as well.
In England many girls in their young teenage years were sent off to work as servants. It was known as "being in service". It happened in most working class households in Victorian times. It helped with the family income and also helped reduce the household overcrowding. They were maids, general domestics, cooks etc. and lived in with the family they worked for. Young men were often sent to farms as farm servants. My great grandmother was in service. She was a live-in maid for a vicar and his family.