I'm not even sure I can survive with my skills now.
that's kind of what I'm thinking right now lmao
Baking bread goes back pretty far. Think I'd rather just jump of a cliff, though.
Shhhh no talk only bake.
In a modern oven, sure. I make great bread from flour, water, salt. But without the ovens I understand? Without the fine ground flour? I dunno.
Yeah that's what my wife said, she'd be a cook and I said on a fire no stove gutting chickens etc all on your own. Then she rethought it and settled on housewife and not a great one haha
It does, but by how far back does it go as an only skill?
I guess you can only go far as far as there are dedicated bakers in the community and flour available. I guess that only takes you as far back as mills are available?
As a waitress, probably the 1980's.
As a computer scientist / CS teacher, probably the 1960's... without being outed as a time traveler, anyway.
computer scientist / CS teacher, probably the 1960's
I'm not sure how well of a living they've made back then, but surely mathematicians / math teachers were a thing since ancient times.
Someone who knows a bunch of complexity theory, graph theory, and sorting algorithms for large data sets; but not calculus or set theory is gonna be conspicuously unusual the further back you go.
but not calculus or set theory
My computer science curriculum covered calculus - perhaps not as rigorously as the mathematical sciences, but enough for it to be "working" knowledge (personally, I've forgotten 90% of it since graduation).
Plus, I am sure a computer science teacher should be at least familiar with these topics, or be capable of picking them up.
I'm familiar, I could pick them them up (I have before, and like you, forgotten them from disuse), but I certainly don't know them offhand the way I know, say, Dijkstra's algorithm.
i could paint some kick ass cave paintings and field dress a deer.
I can pick things up and put them down, so as long as there’s things that need picked up and put down I’m good.
I hear Sisyphus is looking to train his replacement. In fact, he says it's a pretty cushy job, as there's not need to pick things up, and definitely no putting them down
I imagine I'd make a not totally incompetent blacksmith, or some other equivalent allied trade. In fact, I'd probably have a better chance at that 300 or so years ago than now.
Yes, I do already have my own anvil. Jury's out on whether or not I feel like lugging it with me, though. The fucker is heavy.
Depends on the skillset in question.
On one hand I work with IT/Clusters and robotics for the geophysical exploration sector. 20 years, probably. Beyond that and it gets dubious apart from this one system that actually runs on MS-DOS to this day (because MS-DOS is surprisingly good at realtime stuff if you want it to do something very simple).
On the other hand I do a lot of digital I/O and automation which would probably be very useful in the 60s, maybe even before if I manage to join the pioneers.
On top of that, I grew up on a dairy farm, and learned a lot of that trade from my dad. I can milk a cow by hand, so if that was all I needed to do, I could go back all the way to Mesopotamia.
My computer skills? Not far. My house painting skills? I guess maybe 200 years, but I’m not excited about the prospect of using lead-based paint and wood ladders. As a jazz-trained musician, I guess to the 1940s.
House painting goes back to the 11th century according to this site
https://www.backthenhistory.com/articles/the-history-of-house-paint
Yeah I can go pretty damn far back. (username)
Without all the moddcoms of life? No more electric oven gas stove etc?
When did the cook stop doing the butchering of the animal?
Gonna blow Galileo's mind with an equatorial telescope mount. Even more so when I attach a clock to it and make it automatically track the sky. I'm skilled enough to construct one, assuming I can communicate with other laborers to have the parts made
As far as general labor skills go though, I could make a living just about any time with agriculture. Unskilled labor is timeless
Per the OP's post:
I don't mean go back and show the wheel or try invent germ theory etc.
For all of human history, labor has always been a productive skill.
I can do labor in any era.
I feel like the further back I go, the better I would do. Send me to 65,000,000 B.C. I'll out caveman all the neaderthals.
Just in time for the Chicxulub impact.
There is always a need for dumb labor. I may not be good at it.... yet...
Just don't get involved with any pyramid schemes.
Look, I have a job opportunity, room and board provided nearish to a large river yes it's I will Egypt but...
wait, i have skills??
I am a carpenter so I could probably go back and get drinks after work with Lu Ban in 5th century BC China.
Italian Renaissance maybe? I can paint pretty good
Good enough to be paid though?
Windows 98 SE
I could probably only go as far back as the industrial revolution.
I work in materials testing, mostly for automotive and aerospace, but I could probably put that to work helping design early steam engines and rail systems.
I also play trombone. That design was more or less finalized around that same time.
The day before yesterday with great confidence.
All the way back
Not very. Once you get past my birth the technology is so different most everything I know outside the basics like reading, writing, and math are useless. I don't know how to program with punch cards in assembly. I might do alright in a chem or biology lab for awhiles. Pipetting would be a bitch though. EDITED - just have to say outside of skills I really would hate living before indoor plumbing was common so regardless I would not be very happy before ww1 and even then I would have to live in a city where it was the norm.
How long has Excel been around?
I think Incan knot tying was a bit like a spreadsheet, maybe you could adapt.
maybe somewhere in the greek era where I could be a cynic messing around
I put all my skill points in computers so I could go back to the 70's maybe. The computers made before the ibm pc still seem close enough to be usable by me.
I could also go to neolithic era as rock-on-stick-skull-crusher
I could possibly be a scribe? I took Latin classes ages ago - and most of the ancient scribes’ work was just copying an existing copy of the Bible.
I’m decent at philosophy but terrible at Ancient Greek so that’s out.
I’m pretty decent at basic/intermediate chemistry but that’s pretty modern. Same with basic life support.
I am very good with hair braiding so could probably get work in a rich lady's house I guess. Good with numbers (I work as an accountant) but the past seems so relentlessly sexist not going to try.
Weaving, pottery, gardening, spinning. Yea it'd take a while to adjust to the culture and way of life but I could probably go all the way to Sumer if I wanted and language & diseases weren't a problem.
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