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If you got sent back into the 1800s, what would u choose your profession to be?

And yes, an one way trip, after u got to say your goodbyes to everyone you love.

Also how do you imagine your life to look like in like 2 years there?
Graylight · 51-55, F
@summersong Risky profession.
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@summersong risky profession back then
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@Graylight we thought the same
Elessar · 26-30, M
None, I'd just memorize the winning 1871' lotto numbers right before my departure, and then enjoy being the "lucky" winner 🥴

It'd be kind of a sh*tty century over here tho
Elessar · 26-30, M
@Dan193 I'll wait 🤔
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@Elessar niiiice 😂
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Starcrossed · 41-45, F
I'd marry off, have babies and wouldn't work.

I'd die within the year from asthma.
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@Starcrossed damn, I never thought of that
NickiHijab · F
A witch. Let's be real, I'd get killed for being one after breathing in the wrong direction, so I might as well actually be one
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@NickiHijab how would u get your skin all green and a big crooked nose?
NickiHijab · F
@Dan193 excuse me, not all witches are green. Racist
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@NickiHijab thats how they're depicted in books. Thats documented stuff
sarabee1995 · 26-30, F
Privateer under commission to the US government sailing the Caribbean.

In two years time I expect I'd have treasure chests buried on half the islands between Nassau and Barbados and a few hidden-away bamboo huts to hide out in. 😁
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@sarabee1995 so then you wont own the treasure..? The crown would
sarabee1995 · 26-30, F
@Dan193 There is no crown in the USA. And the Treasury would get its fair share. The rest is mine! ;)
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@sarabee1995 ok ok x)
CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
I'd hope to find some impotent or asexual rich guy who needs a woman for his image in society but wouldn't care what I do otherwise. 🙆‍♀️
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@CrazyMusicLover how would u go about that
CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
@Dan193 I have no idea. I'm glad I don't have to go to 1800s 😂
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@CrazyMusicLover haha right
staking out the male predators, luring them back to my place, and offering them drinks with special spice (arsenic). 👀 or just a regular farm hand girl who dies early from influenza.
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@lovelywarpedlemon oof that would be the whole male population probably back then
@Dan193 i would never be bored i suppose. 😌
Dan193 · 31-35, M
There weren’t many options for women. I would probably be a prostitute or own a brothel. Those women made good money in their era and had more freedom.
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@MorbidCynic what about disease? They had no condoms back then
That’s why I would probably lean towards brothel owner. The life spans weren’t thT long anyway, and I would rather have the freedom of a prostitution while alive than die in childbirth anyway. @Dan193
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@MorbidCynic true. Also you could own a brothel rn - same process really
RosaMarie · 41-45, F
Inventor. I could advance technology by a factor of five or ten with current knowledge applied to the 1800s.
calicuz · 51-55, M
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@RosaMarie you could invent sliced bread
RosaMarie · 41-45, F
@Dan193 and canned beer.
Graylight · 51-55, F
Oracle. If I'm from the future, I can predict it and earn a handsome living from others.
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@Graylight yeah but you'd probably know only the major events, you'd have to be a scam artist when others would ask u questions
Graylight · 51-55, F
@Dan193 This is the daughter of a long line of snake oil salesmen you're talking to here. 😉
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@Graylight haha ok
BeJeweled · F
Marry a wealthy man, dress up everyday and live a pampered life.
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@BeJeweled well there was no national system of education back then and only a small section of the children received any schooling.
Road rage - having a horse was expensive, now 4/5 americans have the means to get a vehicle.
Threats of nuclear war is what kept the civilized world from engaging in wars with eachother for the past almost 80 years. Before there were wars in Europe practically constantly.
BeJeweled · F
@Dan193 There will always be wars, civilized or not unfortunately.
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@BeJeweled Idk hopefully the violence will stop one day
DCarey · 46-50, M
Banker. That always got me to Oregon on Oregon Trail.
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@DCarey awesome
DCarey · 46-50, M
@Dan193 Not as awesome as you, Dan-o
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@DCarey haha thank you 🙏
A duchess in Russian royal family 😂😂
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@Soossie but... how? They didnt get elected by choice
@Dan193

I thought this was a fantasy as we dont get a chance to go back to 1800...
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@Soossie well haha u gotto make it a little bit realistic x)
SinlessOnslaught · 26-30, M
Heating & air conditioning.
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@SinlessOnslaught you can engineer that from scratch?
SinlessOnslaught · 26-30, M
@Dan193 I could pioneer it.
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@SinlessOnslaught nice, we'd be way into the future with tech rn, if heating and conditioning was invented all the way back
Patientlywaiting · 46-50, FVIP
A seamstress, making ladies dresses. I love to sew.
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@Patientlywaiting awesome, wouod u make skirts as well and try to make them mainstream?
Patientlywaiting · 46-50, FVIP
@Dan193 well I love steam punk so they would be quirky with a modern twist. I'd probably die from the poisonous cloth dying practices of the time though so not good.
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@BarbossasHusband I said 1800s tho. It's a bit diff
BarbossasHusband · 36-40, M
@Dan193 oh... I'd be in jail for killing prostitutes in the streets of London.
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@BarbossasHusband They'd write stories about u x)
Probably a voyageur/ coureurs des bois.
OnePatheticClown · 51-55, M
1800s? Industrial Robber baron!
And after 2 years I would be swimming in money and planning the New World Order for the next century 🔺
MartinTheFirst · 22-25, M
@OnePatheticClown theyre gonna marvel at your invention and then think you got possessed by the devil as soon as you break out a "yo"
OnePatheticClown · 51-55, M
@MartinTheFirst Nah, they be too busy breakdancing in three piece suits and top hats to my cool beats!
🎩
🧐
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@OnePatheticClown imagine everyone listening to classical music and the you're the only one making beats and stuff. You'll be a innovator, you'll be the elvis of the 1800s
TexChik · F
For women there wasn’t much of a choice then. We were subjugated to what men determined we should do
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@TexChik somebody else answered that they would try to seek out their ancestors to ask for help. I think thats really smart
TexChik · F
@Dan193 mine were River pirates and were all hanged or shot
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@TexChik daamn thats a pretty cool ancetry lineage, something exciting to research
DearAmbellina2113 · 41-45, F
Pampered housewife
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout but you'd have all the knowledge, why hermit?
Jenny1234 · 51-55, F
I’d be a banker. I’d own the bank. In two years I’d own a chain of banks and I’d dress in fancy dresses and have dinner parties and travel to Europe all the time
DunningKruger · 61-69, M
I imagine, in 2 years time there, I would be dead, because I don't have any resistance to the all the bugs going around at the time.
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@DunningKruger maybe you'd adapt?
SW-User
If I was in the 1800's, I won't be allowed a profession. 🥺
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@SW-User what about a nurse?
SW-User
@Dan193 I don't know if I would like some of the things nurses have to do. Healing is my thing but not washing bodies and waste.
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@SW-User true
Freeranger · M
Quite possibly a Highway man, living among the denizens of Sherwood Forest.
Dan193 · 31-35, M
A lighthouse keeper
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@SethGreene531 nice. Very good description, I could imagine it too
@Dan193 Thank you, see you at the shore.
Dan193 · 31-35, M
AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M
I would befriend my ancestors and be an inventor like doc in back to the future .
MyNameIsHurl · 41-45, F
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@MyNameIsHurl cool. What tea do u recommend for stress
MyNameIsHurl · 41-45, F
@Dan193 kava
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@MyNameIsHurl thanks, I'll look it up
SW-User
Horticulturalist. I'd design gardens for the well to do.
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@SW-User sounds interesting
DeluxedEdition · 26-30, F
Unfortunately I’m a woman so I wouldn’t have the freedom to work
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@DeluxedEdition damn, also if u came up with inventions, they'd call u a witch. What about a doctor/nurse? You'd actually heal people. That would be my choise. The medicine back then was trash based on their belief systems. I'd actually help people.
I look up my ancestors.
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@Spoiledbrat then what? Would u tell them anything?
Just that I loved my family. Though I'd ask for help. @Dan193
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@Spoiledbrat thats pretty smart actually. Having like a guide in that world, to know where to begin from
MartinTheFirst · 22-25, M
why are so many of these girls wanting to be witches and murderers...
HannibalAteMeOut · 22-25, F
@MartinTheFirst I could steal Louis Pasteur's idea 😈
MartinTheFirst · 22-25, M
@HannibalAteMeOut You little wench, I knew taking you with me was a good idea 😈
HannibalAteMeOut · 22-25, F
@MartinTheFirst see, you can rely on me 😌 Just being a person who'd do anything for food really
leeloh · F
A white, male cis oligarch
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@leeloh how would u do that
leeloh · F
@Dan193 if I got sent back in the past, ir doesn't say in what form. I'd choose that.
HannibalAteMeOut · 22-25, F
Sultana 😶 I'd try to kill as many people in power as possible
Carazaa · F
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@Carazaa teach what?
Carazaa · F
@Dan193 Any grade, maybe first grade .
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@Carazaa what will be your favourite topic to teach them? You have so much info
What my ancestors were known for. Blacksmithing.
Nimbus · M
Pheasant plucker.
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@Nimbus had to google the meaning, and cool
Gangstress · 41-45, F
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@Gangstress me too actually, I feel like with my basic knowledge of medicine, will be way more effective than the doctors of that time.
Gangstress · 41-45, F
@Dan193 definitely on the same page. Even the basic stuff we know now could make a massive difference back in that era
dakotaviper · 56-60, M
Either a Gold Miner or a Gunslinger.
calicuz · 51-55, M
Bank robber!!!
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@calicuz haha would be so much easier
lumberjackslam · 41-45, M
I'd be a one of those quacks everyone calls doc
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@lumberjackslam 😂 awesome
Human1000 · M
I'd hunt down Alois Schicklgruber.
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@Human1000 whos that? Did they have a bounty on their head?
Human1000 · M
@Dan193 (Hitler’s father…why stop at baby Hitler?)
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@Human1000 I heard dude as an abuser, so definitely
MartinTheFirst · 22-25, M
Oo I wonder... maybe a baker!
Dan193 · 31-35, M
MartinTheFirst · 22-25, M
@Dan193 Yes, I want to see a lot of smiling faces and happy customers
Dan193 · 31-35, M
@MethDozer you're second one to say that. Whats so cool about it?
MethDozer · M
@Dan193 Everything

 
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