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I make a long list of things for people to do in order to create a final outcome, and then keep track of the progress and find solutions for deviations.
Project manager.
They never really called it that, but I’m pretty sure the concept isn’t new. Architects and the likes did pretty much the same when building ginormous structures back in ancient Rome and Egypt, so they’d get the idea. Probably wouldn’t understand the project deliverable, but at least the process.
I spend most of the day in a room looking at humorous public announcements from people all over the world until someone breaks the communication system for the organization and exile criminals and bad actors
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.
I work in a trade school and apprenticeship has been around for ages so I think it would translate. I would just say that I help teach apprentices along with their masters, specifically about boats and ships.
I’m a Linux Administrator. I maintain machines that think.
You make sure sand thinks correctly.
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?)
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.
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.
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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.
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I found this, which I’ve only watched a few minutes of but is I suspect what you were referring to?
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That’s the one. Enjoy!
Random thought: how did beer refrigeration work pre-industrial revolution?
Cellars (and sometimes caves) were both popular and effective, even sometimes still used today.
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.
Ancestors? My friend, people drink lukewarm beer now.
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.
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A witch!!
Bloodmage would be more accurate
These days, I’m a residential carpenter in New England - I’d imagine it would be very easy to talk about my trade to people from the 1700s, and I’m sure the builders of that time would be fascinated by the power tools we have now.
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!
I do qa for headsets so uh… Imagine a painting that moves. Now imagine instead of seeing the world, there was a device that makes you only see those moving paintings. I make sure that device and the paintings work well together.
If anyone knows of any kind of animation technique from that era that would help with the description. But even flip books wouldn’t be invented for like 150 more years so 🤷♀️ Maybe I could find a nice painting and give the person a bunch of mushrooms and be like “this but different”
I mean, they know what movement is and what real things look like when they move. I sure you could explain the concept of things on a screen moving to them.
Before the melancholia debilitated me, I worked a long time as an unguilded teamster.
Doug Stanhope, the comedian has a good bit about the mexicans taking your job, then you must not have skills! Learn by pantomime: “Crank Crank?” “Si! Crank Crank” https://youtu.be/FOt03BNPExo?t=2220
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piped is very interesting. thanks bot
I’m a magister, scholar, and merchant. (I own a technology company).
