Not hard. I accept money and give it out on behalf of my Lords and Ladies, I mean, employers.
Hmm… I’m a cosplayer/erotica model. So a seamstress that gets naked for money? Not too outlandish, but they’d never understand what cosplay was.
“I get paid to make myself clothes that I don’t wear” would probably be the most confusing way to put this
Not so. Plenty of folks liked to dress up like Greek gods or historical figures. And if you think folks in the 1700s didn’t party hard…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellfire_Club
Emma Frost didn’t invent anything, she was inspired by actual events
Someone else makes a complicated tools for teeth doctors to record what they do and helps them keep track of how much money they are owed.
I teach people to use that tool, and fix it when it breaks. Usually both because I’ll try to explain how to do something and realize it’s broken half way through
They had accountants in the 1700s. The principles of double entry bookkeeping remain the same, but the technology difference with computers and accounting software would make the day to day work unrecognizable.
Hell they had accountants in 3000’s BCE, oldest know examples of real writing are receipts. Actually the oldest recorded name we know, Kushim, belonged to kind of accountant.
Do you watch stefan milo?
No, never even heard about him.
oh, he does archeology youtubes and just did a video on “the oldest name”. He’s pretty cool edit: It was a pretty cool video too. he also asked “oldest name we know a lot about” and “oldest name of a non-royal we know a lot about” in that video
“oldest name of a non-royal we know a lot about”
Iirc the oldest royal name we know is Narmer, and Kushim most probably lived earlier than him. We certainly do know more about Narmer than Kushim though.
The question he asked was more like “oldest person who’s life was somewhat documented” so he goes later to find the first person with a recorded history. I wanna say he ended up on someone in an egyptian king’s court
I think it was Imhotep, priest, architect and doctor at the court of Djoser, credited with designing the first great pyramid and later deified for that. Problem is that nearly all sources on him are much later.
Anyone in the history of civilization would understand my job
Prostitute?
Hell no
I test and design massive industrial electrical systems used in steel mills, power grid distribution, space equipment, coal mines, oil & gas, etc etc etc.
They didn’t even figure out electricity at the time
I’m a glorified locksmith for magic wiz boxes. Technically I do other things as well, but mostly it’s just getting past the locks that people have lost the key for.
There are also magical entities that take works from the nether realm and bring them into existence here, only they are all powered by grumpy demons and so I don’t deal with those.
Yes. I’d just say “you know how the Courts have the power to do X, and decide Y? Well the government decided to devolve those powers to an independent office, so that people didn’t have to pay for lawyers and deal with complicated legal processes. I work in that office making the Y decisions.”
Merchants have become so powerful that I, a serf, have been taught number solely to account for every penny they make. For this, I’m allowed to live an okay life. I do it with magic (Excel) because they are so big and don’t want to hire many of me. They still act like the Dutch and East India Companies, with slightly fewer atrocities.
If anyone has any idea on how to explain generative AI to someone from the 1700s, let me know. Maybe we can try explain my job then.
We discovered god. There’s your explanation.
A machine that draws pictures/writes stories. In a way, it’s easier than the more abstract computer related jobs, because its output it, on a high level, similar to that of a human.
I build buildings
why then, are they not called builts when you finish building them?
Sorry I construct structures.
Hehe. On weekdays I go to a building that is owned by a company. I sit down on a chair at a desk, stare into a device and sometimes push some of the 105 buttons on it. Sometimes I also fill out forms on paper. After 8h plus break I leave and go home. In return the company advises my bank to increase a number each month.
yeah because I have a real job (retail) not whispering to the lightning through the haunted frame like yall
Damn apparently you’re a poet too
Working in a shop is a skill as old as civilization.
“Shopkeeper” would be a pretty damn good job title too compared to retail.
‘Shopkeeper’ implies you might actually own the shop you keep. Modern retail provides few such jobs.
I don’t think the people in the 1700s would care
I (programmer and team leader) get requests from the king (management and project manager) and pass them to the peasants (code monkeys), clean after their shit (QA and code review). I get peanuts in return while the king keep most of the loot.
Bob: “why can’t the king just ask the peasants directly?”
I’M A PEOPLE PERSON!!!
I’M A PEASANT PERSON, WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU NOBLES, WHY CAN’T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT
The project manager is your peer, not your king.
It all depends on the project and the team. On some, you work with and along the PM and all is good, and other times you get dictated unconnected requests that you need to fight or ignore.
Thankfully I’ve only ever worked in the first environment.
Ah, so you’re the
grand viziercourt jester.That definitely define my everyday job experience.
I’m a programmer. I think I would explain it as creating and operating mechanical contraptions that help students find books to read and help them write new works and send them to professors. I work at a university and that is basically what our program does.
