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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Before the melancholia debilitated me, I worked a long time as an unguilded teamster.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I'm just going to call myself an artist of new media types and end it there.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I work with a number of shops (all belonging to one family) to try to make sure that we send enough stock from the company's warehouse to them.

Yeah I'd say that's a simple one .

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Someone else makes a complicated tools for teeth doctors to record what they do and helps them keep track of how much money they are owed.

I teach people to use that tool, and fix it when it breaks. Usually both because I'll try to explain how to do something and realize it's broken half way through

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I'm an artist, so probably. I do traditional painting, something they'd get immediately, but my digital stuff would be difficult to explain. They'd probably think my subject matter is weird, but they'd certainly be able to identify my work as art.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

We're not all physicist. I coordinate the movement of goods from one county to the other.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

They probably wouldn't understand what a software engineer is. I would explain to them that we have mechanical devices that are so complex that humans have to write instructions on how it behaves. That's probably not enough, but would be enough for them to ask clarifying questions.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I make machines talk to each other so that people can talk to each other through the machines from really far away. Like, you know that brand new thing called the telegraph? Well now we call those optical telegraphs because ours are made of pieces of lightning called electricity, and I work on even better versions of that. You can talk to anyone you know instantly with the machines I work on, no matter where in the world they are.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I direct a controlled form of lightning down metal wires to power electric candles, and other amazing devices.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

That's a challenge.

The job I do didn't exist when I was in high school, and most of the technology it was built on didn't exist until the early 1900s.

I suppose I could just call myself a general repairman and leave it at that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Ambisonic is awesome man, it makes the sounds go vrooom all around you.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I think so? Libraries certainly existed, so there's that. Workshops existed, even if they were less industrialized/more artisanal. The only novelty might be that the two should be in the same place.

Then again, libraries of old apparently were used for a lot more than just books/scrolls, and trade guilds must have needed written materials often enough... Maybe the modern makerspace is a reinvention of an old concept? I have no idea.

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