I’m a magister, scholar, and merchant. (I own a technology company).
I’m a Linux Administrator. I maintain machines that think.
Silicon techno wizard.
I make rocks solve repetitive problems faster than humans, and they can talk to each other anywhere in the world and group up to solve even more complex problems.
I get paid in pictures of cats.
I solve problems related to how lightning rocks talk to each other. Often there’s an issue with how automatic scribes decide they don’t feel like talking. Some days I must travel more than double the speed of your fastest horse using a metal box with wheels. I will often complain when my metal box picks the wrong music to play.
They’d understand perfectly. When my employers buy something, it’s my job to check that it arrives in good order and matches what we asked for, and then arrange for the sender to be paid.
Sometimes the thing is a piece of equipment for transmitting real-time video of tumours from one part of the country to another, but I don’t think we need to go into that.
Books
I’m in Product management. Even my own family don’t really get what I do
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
“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
Working in a shop is a skill as old as civilization.
Is your dad actually your dad, or is he your brother? Well my job uses your blood to find out these questions and more. We mix your blood with glowing ingredients, and compare the illuminated patterns that we see when we shine light on it with those of your family members, as well as compared to a rough reference mishmash of all blood we’ve collected so far.
Can you offer me your arm, please?
We mix your blood with glowing ingredients, and compare the illuminated patterns that we see when we shine light on it with those of your family members
Wow, learned something today
A witch!!
Bloodmage would be more accurate
I’m a math nerd at the head of a math department for a big company. Pretty sure they still stoned math nerds to death then so I’d lie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle
Great books about math nerds in the 1700s. Surprised you never heard of it, Newton is a major character.
Lol damn, clearly timelines aren’t my jam.
I work for a training department for a large financial institution. I think I could explain it as teaching people how to do their job better. Though I don’t actually do much teaching, personally.
I’m a barista, coffee houses were a relatively new thing in 1700. People from the Middle East and East Africa would probably understand “I make coffee”, and maybe some very trendy Europeans as well (Wikipedia says the first coffee house in Europe opened in 1645 in Austria.)
If they weren’t familiar with coffee, I’d say I make a beverage with the opposite properties of beer. It’s hot and perks you up where beer is cold and dulls your senses.
(Random thought: how did beer refrigeration work pre-industrial revolution? Were our ancestors chugging lukewarm beer?)
Ever hear of the giant insurance company, Lloyd’s of London. It started as a coffee house.
Back in the day, many people used coffee houses as their business office. Houses and streets were unmarked, and inviting a stranger to your home could be problematic. Meeting and making a deal at the coffee house was safer and simpler. Without a central post office, it was a lot easier to send a letter to ‘John Doe care of Lloyd’s’ than to expect it to find your house.
Pretty soon, folks got the idea of setting up companies to invest in ships to the New World. If one guy invested all his money in one ship, there was a reasonable chance that it would sink. If he got together with nine other people they could send out ten ships, and if only two made it back they’d still read a profit.
That was the best read I’ve had all day, thanks Sgt. Awesome!
Look on Youtube for an old BBC series 'Connections."
It’s the history of science, showing how one change can cascade through time. To continue the story; the new insurance companies wanted their ships to survive. They studied the matter and figured out that pine tar was the best way to stop leaks. There were plenty of pine trees in the New World, so they contracted some Americans to make pine tar, promising to buy all they could deliver. The process had other byproducts, and eventually drinking coffee led to the creation of the chemical industry.
Thanks!
I found this, which I’ve only watched a few minutes of but is I suspect what you were referring to?
That’s the one. Enjoy!
From my very small knowledge, yes, beer was consumed at room temperature. In Germany it still is, for example. Also, beer had less alcohol and was much more like bread in that it was nutritious and filling than what we have now.
In Germany, people don’t drink warm beer, if, like anywhere else, they can avoid it.
Random thought: how did beer refrigeration work pre-industrial revolution?
Cellars (and sometimes caves) were both popular and effective, even sometimes still used today.
I visited a brewery in Germany that was mined out of the bottom of a volcano. It was pretty fucking chilly underground there even in the dead of summer, so maybe that’s where they kept it?
Idk, I showed up to the wrong tour and I only know like 3 words in German so I had zero idea what was happening 98% of the time.
Ancestors? My friend, people drink lukewarm beer now.
We have devised methods to allow performers, both thespian and musician, to be heard and seen by larger and larger audiences. These audiences can be several thousand. Imagine if an entire city came out to see the performance.
I am one of the individuals responsible for maintaining and operating those tools.
So you manage online streaming/video software?
Event production manager. Basically I’m in charge of all things sound, lights, and video for live events, like concerts, or theatrical performances.
Yes, my job has a fairly simple explanation. People who feel bad for whatever reason sit on my couch and I help them feel better.
I’m an archaeologist.
Back in the 1700s this wasn’t really a thing. Although there were folk, usually educated people like vicars and wealthy land owners, who called themselves ‘antiquarians’.
This mostly involved them employing the local unemployed to hack away at old burial mounds/tombs looking for treasure. Buggering up the archaeology for us future scientists in the process!
