I'll go way back and wow people with mayonnaise.
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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.
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My day job won't go far, but my fire expertise and leatherworking skills will take me pretty far
I'm an electrical design engineer but I have a degree in mechanical engineering, so I reckon I'd fit in during the industrial revolution or even the agricultural revolution
The day before yesterday with great confidence.
maybe somewhere in the greek era where I could be a cynic messing around
About as far back as shops went. I work retail, I could work retail in any year I presume
1921.. Did people mess up their Model Ts?
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.
Given a fresh restart, carpenter or blacksmith 1300s probably. Id loathe the lack of food though
No sugar tonight in my coffee
No sugar tonight in my tea
No sugar to stand beside me
No sugar to run with me
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Give me some stone knives and bear skins and I could construct a mnemonic memory circuit. ;-)
I'm a locksmith so any time since the invention of the pin tumbler lock 150ish years ago I will be fine. I don't prefer it but I can hand file keys without any electric key cutting machines. Before that the bit and barrel locks that were used I know enough to get by though admittedly I don't know enough history to say roughly how long ago those were invented.
I'd have to re-remember a lot of stuff I've forgotten, but late 70s, early 80s.
Unless you count "typing" as a marketable skill, then I could probably go back to 1872?
You probably type too fast for the old typewriters and don't hit hard enough, but you'd adapt. And don't forget the carriage return!
I dont know how my skills might translate. But my ex would find work immediately. I mean, being a whore was a living back then. She could suck and fuck cavemen and probably eat well enough. She would probably try to get double teamed by Neanderthals, because filling 1 hole wasnt enough for her.
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