People who try to work together fail to do it well, so I help them understand why this happens, so that they can do better.

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

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.

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.

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.

I am an IT Technician, I guess I would explain my job as being a scollar and a teacher.

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.

I do qa for headsets so uh... Imagine a painting that moves. Now imagine instead of seeing the world, there was a device that makes you only see those moving paintings. I make sure that device and the paintings work well together.

If anyone knows of any kind of animation technique from that era that would help with the description. But even flip books wouldn't be invented for like 150 more years so 🤷‍♀️ Maybe I could find a nice painting and give the person a bunch of mushrooms and be like "this but different"

I (a software engineer) sit at a table and pound my fingers against an object for many hours a day. That’s it.

"I make money by typing things in modern typewriter."

I'd say, Beethoven on "steroids"

I'm the guy who makes sure the castle is built to keep out the invaders. Only everything is made of captured lightning.

Gets burned at the stake

Doug Stanhope, the comedian has a good bit about the mexicans taking your job, then you must not have skills! Learn by pantomime: "Crank Crank?" "Si! Crank Crank" https://youtu.be/FOt03BNPExo?t=2220

I help shops with their inventory.

Actually, yes. My job title originates from around that time I believe. The specifics of the jobs are slightly tweaked of course to modernize the job.