Do you have a job/skills that you could use 100 years ago? (profit, real estate)

[MLSFan]

most people's fields did not exist back then...

or if it did, people would be doing the work themselves instead of hiring someone to do it

100 years ago, most guys would be fighting in WWI

[ohio_peasant]

I write and do math. So I'd be OK in 1917 BC, provided that it was in Mesopotamia, India or China.

[don1945]

Yep, I'm pretty mechanical, so I could find work building or fixing things. I guess I could also find work in a company doing paperwork, as I did that most of my adult life.

[annabanana123]

Nope...IT wasn't a thing back then. I could use my people and project management skills for something but not at all what I do now.

[arwenmark]

Sewing, could have done it then, I even have the machines I own 39 of them many are either hand crank or peddle power so would not even need electricity, that works for the past and also the apocolypse .

[goodlife36]

Yes.

[Neerwhal]

Yes, but I would need to take an abacus and a slide rule.

[artillery77]

The 1917...I could still do accounting...albeit I'd be pouring over tedious ledgers. It may be too boring for me, but there's something satisfactory about closing books on paper. So many opportunities for fraud though.

My wife would be in her hey day. Dry cleaning and alterations at a time when all men wore suits....yeah, she'd be fine, though we'd want fire insurance.

Both of us would need more people though.

[imagardener]

Being female would limit my choices in 1917 but I am a good cook so would start with that and then probably start a cosmetic company or patent medicine because self-employment would be a way to get ahead in a time women barely had legal rights and were generally underpaid (even less than modern times).

[hunterseat]

Probably. Managing facilities might not have been looked upon as a necessary skill but their facilities sure would have lasted longer!