If you were a carpenter in Ancient Rome, then you would be classified as a plebeian. Plebeians were the general people of the Roman citizens that is not a patrician, in other words, a commoner. People get confused with the plebeians and the patricians, the plebeians are the average people, while the patricians are the wealthy or noble people of the Roman society. They were the average workers of the Roman society, they usually work as bakers, farmers, craftsmen, or builders, they were the ones that had to really work hard to pay their taxes and support their families. The plebeians are stuck as plebeians, it is hard become a patrician (wealthy), unless they were adopted into a family of patricians.