I solve problems related to how lightning rocks talk to each other. Often there’s an issue with how automatic scribes decide they don’t feel like talking. Some days I must travel more than double the speed of your fastest horse using a metal box with wheels. I will often complain when my metal box picks the wrong music to play.

They’d understand perfectly. When my employers buy something, it’s my job to check that it arrives in good order and matches what we asked for, and then arrange for the sender to be paid.

Sometimes the thing is a piece of equipment for transmitting real-time video of tumours from one part of the country to another, but I don’t think we need to go into that.

in 1730 they invented magazines, pretty much most tech and communications jobs are based off of that

We have devised methods to allow performers, both thespian and musician, to be heard and seen by larger and larger audiences. These audiences can be several thousand. Imagine if an entire city came out to see the performance.

I am one of the individuals responsible for maintaining and operating those tools.

Is your dad actually your dad, or is he your brother? Well my job uses your blood to find out these questions and more. We mix your blood with glowing ingredients, and compare the illuminated patterns that we see when we shine light on it with those of your family members, as well as compared to a rough reference mishmash of all blood we’ve collected so far.

Can you offer me your arm, please?

I’m always suspicious of these sorts of posts. Feels like the answers could be used to profile the users who reply. Maybe the internet has made me way too paranoid.

Books

I’m an archaeologist.

Back in the 1700s this wasn’t really a thing. Although there were folk, usually educated people like vicars and wealthy land owners, who called themselves ‘antiquarians’.

This mostly involved them employing the local unemployed to hack away at old burial mounds/tombs looking for treasure. Buggering up the archaeology for us future scientists in the process!

I am paid to perform other duties as assigned.

I’m a math nerd at the head of a math department for a big company. Pretty sure they still stoned math nerds to death then so I’d lie.

I work for a training department for a large financial institution. I think I could explain it as teaching people how to do their job better. Though I don’t actually do much teaching, personally.

For sure they’d understand. My job had been around for quite a while (not a hooker)

I create drawings of the enclosure of machines and contraptions, you know, the knobs and switches and all those things, and then instruct machines to assemble those machines according to the drawings.

No, I’d just tell them I’m a wizard.

Most likely yes, the organisation I work for would have been 200 years old at that stage.

I’m a postie.