Asklemmy

They'd understand perfectly. When my employers buy something, it's my job to check that it arrives in good order and matches what we asked for, and then arrange for the sender to be paid.

Sometimes the thing is a piece of equipment for transmitting real-time video of tumours from one part of the country to another, but I don't think we need to go into that.

My official work title is "Site Reliability Engineer", which means I'm somewhere between a clerk, a tinkerer, and a millwright.

But I'm not recording any transactions by hand and the mills I work on don't have anything to do with grain. Instead, they're simple but very fast arithmetical machines that the moneychangers had built to account for every penny that moves from one bank to another.

Sometimes the machines don't work as they are expected to, and it's my job to catch this misbehavior and identify the cause so that one of the arithmetical millwrights can figure out how to fix it. I also help them them do the fixing and testing to make sure the equiment runs true before we set it back to work.

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'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

Yeah for sure, they had my job then, some advancements have been made is all.

Easily, I think they had a form of food delivery in the 1700's, it's just faster now.

Yes, my job has a fairly simple explanation. People who feel bad for whatever reason sit on my couch and I help them feel better.

Edit: I'm a therapist.

Most likely yes, the organisation I work for would have been 200 years old at that stage.

I'm a postie.

I can barely get my wife to understand virtualization/containerization and she’s very intelligent, let alone someone from the 18th century who couldn’t even comprehend what a computer was.

This likely has more to do with my shitty explaining ability than anything else. 😊

I work with machines to create lessons for other machines to learn how to figure out you're sick before you feel sick.

Yeah... that sounds like bullshit haha

I am paid to perform other duties as assigned.

I'm always suspicious of these sorts of posts. Feels like the answers could be used to profile the users who reply. Maybe the internet has made me way too paranoid.