Shrine Maiden

While being a shrine maiden is considered in general to be a reputable profession a young woman might partake in, they are viewed as a little more than a casual low servant tasked with the most mundane daily tasks, usually involving any hard labour that the higher priests do not have the time or desire to partake in. They are only considered a little more than an indentured slave just because they serve a temple instead of a noble house. 

Usually it is girls and women from poorer families that decide to join an order as a shrine maiden, provided that they have never been married before and thus have no living child dependants. Most of these girls come here out of their own volition, usually when their own family is pressuring them to marry or threatening them to sell them into service. Once a shrine maiden they usually take on a different name and sever their ties with the outside world completely as running away to a temple is not really seen too kindly by a financially struggling family that maybe was counting on exchanging their female offspring for more money that they could have earnt in their lifetime.

Besides regular prayers, shrine maidens are the ones that keep a temple running - they do all of the cleaning, cooking and laundry for anyone residing within its walls. Occassionally they might get send in groups into nearby villages or towns to run errands, deliver messages or medicine to people who have secured such services with generous donations or cannot easily visit the temple themselves. Shrine maiden would never travel alone on a temple business willingly.

There is not much career progression a shrine maiden might hope for, only a chose few can progress to priesthood, either if they have been educated earlier in life or they do have a significant magical talent that can be further trained. Still most of the women choose to stay in exchange of a safe place they can somewhat call home.