As a support engineer for a proprietary SaaS product I would probably be quite limited. But as I also run a LAMP VM and I think that was way more popular as a skill set requirement a little over a decade ago so that could help. Might even get higher pay...
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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.
ETA: having considered this, maybe the number and letter literacy literacy would be useful in the same position, (though obviously my reading would be limited with the earlier language, I'm sure that would not draw any attention) I think I'd still angle for work as a lady's lady.
Yikes. I've moved from IT tech support to MGMT. I don't really write with a pen, and largely rely on emails/teams. I think if we went back any further than the late 80s I'd be totally screwed.
I'm a chef, so probably back to when fire started to be a thing people used.
Umm, but what if I'm a science teacher? Like, my specialty is history and presentation of science experimentation. The primary limitation is whether I am allowed to bring the tools of my trade (books), which would help me survive in England or Iceland as far back as 900 AD.
There is always a need for dumb labor. I may not be good at it.... yet...
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wait, i have skills??
I don't have any skills so I don't think I could get really far back.
I'm barely hanging on now
Considering the Aztecs developed hydroponic technology without other advanced technology, I could probably go back to the beginning of humanity with my knowledge, even if I only get to bring one skillset and not the whole of my knowledge. And boy would things change from there!
If language isn't an issue I could probably work as an engineer in ancient Egypt or a math teacher in ancient Greece
I haven't practised it in a long time but my formation was in a horticulture school, I could go pretty far back.
at least Mendel times (1800s)
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.
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