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If a person from 1700 asked you your job, would they understand your answer, and if not, how would you explain it to them? (lemm.ee)

submitted 8 months ago by JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Gabu@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Even better: "our clocks in the future are very complex and it's my job to keep them working".

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 8 months ago

That would be more a like a sysadmin, though. OP has to introduce new functionality, which I'd want to emphasise.

They could say they're a creator of automata, and the past people would picture basically robots, but that implies a more physical type of building, and also that they create things that are purely decorative or for entertainment.