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Not very. Once you get past my birth the technology is so different most everything I know outside the basics like reading, writing, and math are useless. I don't know how to program with punch cards in assembly. I might do alright in a chem or biology lab for awhiles. Pipetting would be a removed though. EDITED - just have to say outside of skills I really would hate living before indoor plumbing was common so regardless I would not be very happy before ww1 and even then I would have to live in a city where it was the norm.

Weaving, pottery, gardening, spinning. Yea it'd take a while to adjust to the culture and way of life but I could probably go all the way to Sumer if I wanted and language & diseases weren't a problem.

I could possibly be a scribe? I took Latin classes ages ago - and most of the ancient scribes’ work was just copying an existing copy of the Bible.

I’m decent at philosophy but terrible at Ancient Greek so that’s out.

I’m pretty decent at basic/intermediate chemistry but that’s pretty modern. Same with basic life support.

If language isn't an issue I could probably work as an engineer in ancient Egypt or a math teacher in ancient Greece

1921.. Did people mess up their Model Ts?

Umm, but what if I'm a science teacher? Like, my specialty is history and presentation of science experimentation. The primary limitation is whether I am allowed to bring the tools of my trade (books), which would help me survive in England or Iceland as far back as 900 AD.

Yikes. I've moved from IT tech support to MGMT. I don't really write with a pen, and largely rely on emails/teams. I think if we went back any further than the late 80s I'd be totally screwed.

As a kind of generalist (risk analysis-mitigation, engineering and NGOs), I think I could go back some centuries in time as an advisor or leading teams to improve their quality of life.

I'm an electrical design engineer but I have a degree in mechanical engineering, so I reckon I'd fit in during the industrial revolution or even the agricultural revolution

About as far back as shops went. I work retail, I could work retail in any year I presume

All the way back

My day job won't go far, but my fire expertise and leatherworking skills will take me pretty far

Given a fresh restart, carpenter or blacksmith 1300s probably. Id loathe the lack of food though

Considering the Aztecs developed hydroponic technology without other advanced technology, I could probably go back to the beginning of humanity with my knowledge, even if I only get to bring one skillset and not the whole of my knowledge. And boy would things change from there!

Give me some stone knives and bear skins and I could construct a mnemonic memory circuit. ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F226oWBHvvI

I'm a locksmith so any time since the invention of the pin tumbler lock 150ish years ago I will be fine. I don't prefer it but I can hand file keys without any electric key cutting machines. Before that the bit and barrel locks that were used I know enough to get by though admittedly I don't know enough history to say roughly how long ago those were invented.

I'd have to re-remember a lot of stuff I've forgotten, but late 70s, early 80s.

Unless you count "typing" as a marketable skill, then I could probably go back to 1872?

I dont know how my skills might translate. But my ex would find work immediately. I mean, being a removed was a living back then. She could suck and fuck cavemen and probably eat well enough. She would probably try to get double teamed by Neanderthals, because filling 1 hole wasnt enough for her.