Do you have a job/skills that you could use 100 years ago?

[katie45]

Secretarial - typing/shorthand plus a variety of clerical duties not requiring modern day equipment.

[BostonMike7]

I'm in engineering and electrical.


If I could go back to 1917, I could make one hell of a car.

[easy62]

Skilled trades will always survive, you need electrician’s to hook up you power supply, tool and die to make the dies so you van have your electronic cases because these things and many more are made from a. Plastic injection molding press with a die, you need plumbers. To run pipes for water and waste systems, you need a hvac to keep your heating and cooling systems going. And a carpenter to build your homes and remodel your living spaces. You need these people to do these jobs, sorry they are more important than many whitecollr jobs because these types of jobs keep infrastructure going and if the infrastructure falls apart who are you going to get to fix it an accountant, or a Doctor I think not. People take for granted what a skilled tradesmen do, some think the water from their faucet just happens, ot the lights turn on and off because they are supposed to, no a plumber made your water come out of that faucet, and a electrician made your lights go on and off.

[MLSFan]

after reading this thread, it should have been do you have skills for jobs that are 100 hears in the future

[Becki in Tx.]

Maybe? I am a social worker, so I don't know if they had that back then or not. Certainly not in a paying role or for women.

[emcee squared]

Originally Posted by Gothick

While certainly there are a lot of different careers/jobs available now, if, hypothetically you woke up tomorrow 100 years in the past; so 1917, would you be able to find a job or career at all close to what you do now? Or have skills that you could use to make a living?

To a degree. While the technology was in its infancy, the physical entity that I'm in charge of exists. The federal agency that regulates my industry wasn't created until the late 50s.