In the Time of John Adams series What would your Job be

[Buck Rogers]

Hi all

In the Time frame of John Adams HBO series Re: 1800's What would your Job be?
My mom thinks I would be a print shopkeeper.

Any thoughts on this topic

Feel free to explore any type of 1800's vocations that applies to the world of John Adams.

Signed
Buck Rogers

 

[cardinal biggles]

They had libraries back then, so I'd probably be doing what I do now, only by candlelight, and without the Internet.

 

[Endymion]

The King of England.

 

[INACTIVESamusAranX]

A writer and farmer. I'd like a simpler life as such.

 

[T J]

Building the White House!

 

[Ohappydagger]

I probably would have been married off to a poor farm boy as soon as I reached childbearing age. Then it would have been my job to stay pregnant, collect eggs from under chickens, help plow the fields, and encourage my good Christian husband in his aspirations to one day purchase an African slave of his very own. Then I'd reach my mid-30s and die of old age if tuberculosis didn't get me first.

 

[Buck Rogers]

Well it's a start keep it comming

Signed

Buck Rogers

 

[ElScoob]

If we take as given an approximate analogy to my present occupation (hawking office supplies and furniture at a moderately well-known chain whose name rhymes with 'maples'), I suppose I would have been a stationer.

Given my choice of occupations at the time, I probably would have volunteered to serve in whatever occupation they'd have taken me in the Continental Navy (ship's clerk? With bad knees and worse eyes, I doubt I'd have made much of a topman...).

 

[J.T.B.]

Statistically, I 'd probably be a farm laborer.

Given my choice of occupations at the time, I probably would have volunteered to serve in whatever occupation they'd have taken me in the Continental Navy (ship's clerk? With bad knees and worse eyes, I doubt I'd have made much of a topman...).

Ship's clerk was a warrant officer-level job, and you had to have some connections to get it; it often led to the well-paid position of purser. If you couldn't swing that, the navy would still take you: you'd be on deck pulling ropes like the other landsmen. If you were literate and stayed out of trouble, you might have a shot at some kind of idler job.

--Justin

 

[Lindley]

I'd probably work in the Springfield Armory. Or some other proto-factory.

It's a technology thing.

 

[Meredith]

Inventor

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Whatever my ancestors were doing then.

OLD SCHOOL 'MERICAN! REPRESENT!!

 

[Saturn0660]

Shop clerk of some kind i'm sure.

 

[LizFL]

Probably doing what I'm doing right now ... Cook.

 

[Mistral]

I'd be dead. My adenoids swelled up when I was ten and had to be removed during emergency surgery. Not sure they knew how to do that back then.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

They had no supermarkets back then, so I'd be screwed.

 

[auntiehill]

I'd probably be the Old Maid school teacher.

Or, I'd be dead, as I was very sickly as a child.

 

[InklingStar]

Most of my ancestors at the time were farmers. Many were veterens of the Revolution. A few millers too. So probably something like that.

 

[Cicero]

Some of my ancestors had probably not yet heard of Europe, some were living among the cliffs near Lillehammer, Norway, and I have very little idea what the rest were doing. I think I'd choose to be with those in Norway. Generally, life in the past does not appeal to me.

(By 1815, the first of many of my ancestors would have served in the United States military. During the Civil War, my ancestors, despite being entirely Southern on my mother's side, would fight with the Union; one served as an officer in Farragut's armada, one as a captain in the Army of the Potomac - including at the Battle of Gettysburg, and two were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.)

(In case you couldn't tell, I'm more or less dyed Yankee.)

 

[AviTrek]

An engineer working on the early canals.