If we lived 100-200 years ago, What job would everyone have

kmart6 · 30-05-2008 01:49AM

Cool_CM wrote: »

F*ck that, I just got sponsored a ticket to that "New World" they're on about!

Ah and from your location I take it your getting on that boat outta Cobh!

Kold · 30-05-2008 02:30AM

Um. Same job. Artist.

JangoFett · 30-05-2008 03:04AM

I'd get a ticket to the new fangled "America" I've heard about and become a Highwayman, stealing from the rich English oppressors and giving their wives and daughters a good rogering!!

HAVE ATCHA!! <-- The Irish for "Have at Thee!"

6th · 30-05-2008 09:16AM

Blacksmith. FACT.

Mr. CooL ICE · 30-05-2008 09:25AM

Doctor. One of the last ones who stabs people in the elbow to cure fevers

Gone West · 30-05-2008 09:42AM

realistically either a farmer or a factory worker.

seamus · 30-05-2008 09:52AM

With my gimpy eyesight, probably something mundane like a cobbler or a blacksmith or maybe a watchmaker.

Depends on how rich my family was. If we had money, I'd be one of those science-y types living in a university. If we were poor, one of the above mentioned trades.

If my eyesight wasn't gimpy, I'd probably be a soldier.

KTRIC · 30-05-2008 09:55AM

Assassin and part time murderer for the IRB

That'd be the life what with all the murdering and such :cool:

LouOB · 30-05-2008 09:57AM

married with 5 kids and taking valium to 'know my place' in society
not by choice - it was just society and culture back then

Captain Darling · 30-05-2008 09:58AM

ex-leper.

pedro ferio-vti · 30-05-2008 10:09AM

I've thought about this too. I think i'd be dead by now.... but if I wasn't, i'd be a vagrant, infantry grunt or a stable man workery type person all depending on whether my theory that starting at computer screens for most of my day has in fact made me blind..

Predhead · 30-05-2008 10:13AM

Defo an outlaw with a six-shooter on each hip and a rifle in my arms.

Robbing banks, stagecoaches etc, the cliché kid they'd call me! :pac:

Dr_Teeth · 30-05-2008 10:16AM

I'd be spending my days picking rocks out of fields to grow potatos on the Dingle peninsula (not the job I'd want, but given my family history, the job I'd have had). Mind you, I'd probably be married, with kids, and a house I built myself for next to nothing.. and I'd be able to speak my native language.. so it wouldn't have been all bad.

stevoman · 30-05-2008 10:17AM

court jester!

Rob_l · 30-05-2008 10:19AM

200 hundred years ago hopefully I would have been able to gain employment for the crown guarding the walls of fair Dublin from invasion by culchies

KTRIC · 30-05-2008 10:20AM

Rob_l wrote: »

200 hundred years ago hopefully I would have been able to gain employment for the crown guarding the walls of fair Dublin from invasion by culchies

Traitor :mad:

Rob_l · 30-05-2008 10:21AM

KTRIC wrote: »

Traitor :mad:

No your the traitor the crown was the ruler and talk like that will have you executed, off with his head

Lirange · 30-05-2008 10:25AM

Timelord.

Failing that a punter or a fortune teller.

Sherifu · 30-05-2008 10:25AM

Doctor Quinn, medicine bitch.

Steve_o · 30-05-2008 10:32AM

Sherifu wrote: »

Doctor Quinn, medicine bitch.

lol,

Wouldn't mind being a test pilot for the wright brothers!

SimpleSam06 · 30-05-2008 10:35AM

Itinerant scofflaw and ne'er-do-well earning my coin in the turbulent politics of Europe and the New World.

RedXIV · 30-05-2008 10:36AM

General. Apparently you could buy into that back then. i like that idea :cool:

nice1franko · 30-05-2008 10:50AM

i'd be chief liberator of ireland. first things first, i'd go down to cork and batter the heads of the lot of them so they wouldn't fukin sniper me as im going for a spin through the countryside.

nice1franko · 30-05-2008 10:53AM

Rob_l wrote: »

No your the traitor the crown was the ruler and talk like that will have you executed, off with his head

secondly, take care of the widespread stockholm syndrome

no worries, we can brainwash yous back

token56 · 30-05-2008 10:54AM

I'd definitely be some sort of rebel co-ordinator against the English, but soon enough end up being tortured and Killed

Rob_l · 30-05-2008 10:57AM

nice1franko wrote: »

secondly, take care of the widespread stockholm syndrome

no worries, we can brainwash yous back

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

KTRIC · 30-05-2008 10:58AM

Rob_l wrote: »

No your the traitor the crown was the ruler and talk like that will have you executed, off with his head

And you would be hung for having such bad grammar

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EamonnKeane · 30-05-2008 11:02AM

Phantasm wrote: »

I'd be the giver of birth, maid, cook...etc.

You man-baystards!

No housewives 200 years ago, everyone had to work except the toffs

Rob_l · 30-05-2008 11:05AM

KTRIC wrote: »

And you would be hung for having such bad grammar .

yeah indeed!

watna · 30-05-2008 11:08AM

With my family history I'd be popping babies out and washing men in a big tin bath in the evenings after they worked hard in the South Wales coal mines. I'd have to cook and clean and bake bread and shít and go to chapel on Sundays with a bonnet on my head and pray in Welsh.

I'm very often glad I was born now and not 200 years ago!

If we lived 100-200 years ago, What job would everyone have

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