What would your occupation be in 1200 AD?

Blacksmith, silversmith, engraver...

I could invent rudimental drumming!

OTOH, I could die of some nasty diseases, or get burned as a heretic, as the reformation would be a long ways off!

Tom
 
I'd probably be a bowyer, and find a likely kid to teach fletching (Maybe one of my own). I'd find a smith and have him make a draw knife for shaping bow limbs, and with what I know of backing self bows with snake skin or rawhide, and the basic theory of making composite bows, I believe we could be up and running as a business in short order. When times dictated, we could sign on with a company of archers.......on the side I'd be working on reasonable amounts of gunpowder :D
 
Unless that position is already taken. Then I'd become the resident hermit/atlatlist and have the general public poke fun at me for being generations behind the technology curve.
 
Our family name indicates we grew rocks in Ireland.

But anything that got me fed and not killed that day would work. Being a brewmaster would be good- you can't hate the guy that makes good beer.

Mike
 
I think I would be killed in short order, pretty much as soon as they saw me in my strange clothes, speaking in my strange wizard tongue. I would also be seen as a freak because I smell pleasant and bathe regularly.
 
With my background in military transportation, I'd probably be working in that area. Either as a drover running wagons (Built to MY specs) or as a shipping broker, arranging transportation, or maybe open my own overland shipping company using wagons (again, built to my specs, using modern techniques). It's either that or be an explorer, going to places I know exist, but that many at that time were unaware of. Follow Marco Polo's footsteps, but instead of China, head for Nepal. See what kind of blades I find there.
 
tedwca said:
Errr, there was no Penicillin either. That puts a few things in the same category as AIDS.:eek:
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Syphilis hadn't quite made it over from the new world yet either so maybe we could dally around a bit. Although no bathing + no shaving = Women not so attractive:barf: So maybe the temptation wouldn't be so, well, tempting.

I think I'd probably promptly die of smallpox or plague. I'd have a few hot hints for anyone with a few blue water ships though.
 
I'd live in remote Scotland, there were some places in Scotland that never had the plague. I'd become a farmer and a writer in my spare time.
 
I would most likely be a pilgrim wandering from village to village looking for a good dentist and soft toliet paper.:)
 
Just about any educated person from here/now could be a better doctor than they had then on the basis of hygiene alone. That, storytelling, and my leatherworking skills should earn my keep on the Silk Road. If I can cadge a few coins along the way, I might do a little trading meself.
 
You guys with your marketable skills...Grrrrrr;) I think I would just do what I do for a living now....talk. Well that and the magical doctor thing. I sell wet holes in the ground now, and i'm pretty good at it. Hopefully, I'd charm my way into the good graces of some goodly noblewoman. I have absolutely no problem being a thirteenth century boy-toy:D I mean, I've done a lot of manual labor, but nothing like these folks. I'd be a smooth skinned dandy to them. Probably more of an oddity than anything. A collectable. Once again, it would probably be a short life...but who's wasn't back then;)?

jake
 
I'd probably be some Lord's dependable, loyal soldier. I wouldn't live too long. Maybe I'd be a scribe instead.




munk
 
Royal gigolo: loyal servant to the royal ladies when their men must attend to more pressing matters. The things I do for the crown...:p :rolleyes:
 
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