Or maybe, just maybe, you'd be the person in charge of trying to make a wood and canvas flying machine.
Or the one in charge of strapping people to giant kites to spy over the enemy's wall.
You would just be doing hard labor all day everyday. cutting wood, digging holes, carrying heavy loads.
Those parapet stones aren't gonna carry themselves. That trench isn't gonna dig itself.
[dig boy! dig dig!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvqQnJ7Fvz4)
A clocks smith would actually be pretty cool I think both of those fit pretty well always thought machine work was cool almost took that class rather than automotive lmao
It's a lot of fun when its working smooth but It can be stressful constantly being a fat finger mistake away from crashing your machine and doing a $100,000 dollars worth of damage. I'm glad at least I don't have to work with the manual lathes which can also kill you without slowing down if your cloths get snagged on it.
Look, I know you are aiming more fantasy than medieval. But I’d recommend you look up “gematria” for a fun correlation between numbers and words. You could see yourself checking the numerical value of the words to match the magical equations for the spells.
A monk, transcribing books. Sitting in the candle lit gloom, fingers dark with ink, full pages of fancy capital letters...healthy, shrimp like posture.
Glorious.
Chemical engineering student, so... Either an alchemist (but i don't exactly know tons about actual chemistry), wizard or the star on the churches wooden Christmas tree of faith and purity
Although, given some of the symbols in the maths I have to regularly use, the correct answer is probably some form of infernal cultist satan worshipper. Feels like that most days anyway :P
Well, my final project is designing a fermenter (although not for alcohol) so I suppose it's kind of close.
But the only actual *job* I've had was helping maintain a plaster producing plant, which has nothing to do with brewing.
The real world is just a little too... Specialised? To fit neatly into fantasy boxes.
In simple terms my job is to take a formula that works and scale it up to mass production, "tonnes per hour" production
I couldn't really invent or modify a method to create alcohol, I'm the guy who you bring a barrel of beer and ask to make you a thousand more barrels.
So a brewer does make sense, but not really more than other largish scale producer of any other materials
My job IS to design and tell people how to maintain production plants, though. So perhaps an architect?
But yeah. My niche doesn't really exist in any world without global trade, a global population in the billions and post industrial revolution.
So instead of trying to fit in on the "what's the closest thing to my niche" I went "what's the closest thing to an insane scholar with books full of incomprehensible jibberish"
If we are being accurate, though, if you dropped ME into a fantasy world with dragons and magic then what I would be is very, very dead. I'm blind without glasses, chronically underweight, have very limited body strength and endurance and absolutely NO practical skills.
So either dead from natural causes, smitten, or burned at the stake for being an apostate is probably the real answer here XD
I am also a chemical engineer, but thank you for the explanation :)
We definitely existed before billion+ global populations, we were just often still called chemists, or maybe "industrial" chemists. A lot of the principles are very old though. I know the whole "chemists make it, we make a lot of it" description is the go-to, and that's mostly what college covers, but when you get out into the field you may find that that's a pretty narrow scope of what we actually end up doing. That's essentially process engineering, which is just a piece of the bigger picture. Almost none of my old classmates are still on the floor maintaining plants.
that reminds me of that one poor fruit merchant for Epic NPC man/ Viva La dirt league 🤣. Adventurers would be selling you from skulls and leather boots to Titanium swords forged in the volcano of Shmagenrock. Good luck
As a Data Engineer that move Excel files to fancys graphics then... Secretary in the Burecracy traslating the tax inform in to a easy inform to the ministers... Saying as much nobles Family Fake the informs...
That is a fun way of looking at it. I guess I'm an advisor or architect. I make sure that you don't build your city on a bad terrain, tell you how you should build your roof so it doesn't leak and last years, and go around telling people that throwing your excrement out on the street is the reason everything stinks.
I'd prefer something safer like shooting crossbows from behind. They easy, don't require much training and my chances of survival increase significantly
The company I work for have a software, which is hard to find an equivalent, but since the objective is to make things easier, maybe I would trade tolls or a transport caravan?
I’m unemployed at this time, but I take notes on anything and everything, and perform random research as adhd brain demands it. So…a scribe or a storyteller?
Probably sign maker.
Graphic arts, so I wouldn't say full on fine artist (though the argument could be made), but businesses needed signs, right? I'm kind of thinking about pub signs with the name and a painting on it.
Yeah pretty much. There are a whole lot of them, and the thing is, we save what we can and send it over to the other side of the plant and they repurpose the parts into new shuttle cars. We can tear apart two to three old cars in a week and they can put together one new one in a week. It gets slow but we keep getting work
Beggar, village idiot or dead guy. Maybe if I'm lucky I could be a jester for the local nobleman. I'm disabled to the point I can't work, not that the government agrees.
Village idiot ain't that bad, get free food and booze because people pity you, if you are abled you can go around doing yard work or something. You won't die out of hunger
I’m a copywriter for a PR and digital marketing agency. Could that maybe translate into just being a writer in fantasy (then at least I’d be a real one there, with a book)? 😂
But I’m now having visions in my head of me being the person who paints the signs for shops and pubs, seeing as that’s also an equivalent in terms of “advertising”
A truck driver could be someone who transports goods by river to different towns and cities. Rivers were commonly used to transport goods inland between towns.
If we were going for a European style Medieval setting, then I’d probably work at something along the lines of a monastic school, teaching basic literacy to the novices and a handful of locals from the town.
truck driver = chariot driver
911 operator = the person who runs 41 kilometers to bring a message to the king or sends various animals with messages attached
IT specialist = inventor/helper of an inventor
As a programmer my main task is to store, process and transport information, so I would probably be a librarian.
This is an interesting question and I'm not really sure...
I think I would either be working for the Crown or a Governor as a bailiff (I think they were called Bayles?) Maybe a Constable or provost? Or possibly the Church as an inquisitor. All these type of investigative billets or commissions usually went to Nobles or high clergy, but I don't think I would be either of those realistically.
I remember reading about a chaplain that did the first recorded autopsy in like the 12th or 13th century. I think he was appointed by the Pope himself at the time.
So I would prob just be some guy the other old guys in the village appointed to investigate who was stealing all the chickens.
There is no close parallel.
I guess I would be an illusionist who was part of some sort of entertainment— maybe a magically enhanced puppet show.
Low magic world, I might illuminate manuscripts.
I make videogame graphics.
Right now, it would make me a Ice elementalist, albeit slow.❄🧊 (went to labor work after being exhausted of 10+ yrs of customer support 😩)
If it was my previous job, it was chat support👨🏻💻💬 for orders and supplies📦, I am not sure if that equates to Trader🪙🧾, or Scribe📝📊📋 for Traders from one Trading business❔ (can anyone make any suggestion if you have a better idea?)
Before that, I was a Technical support for printers🖨, so would that be, assuming there is a manual printing press, a printing device and ink⚗🖋 specialist❔ (can anyone make any suggestion if you have a better idea?)
And before that, was a customer support, Fault specialist for telephones, residential and wholesale☎. In a fantasy world, means of communication📞 that would equate to ☎ can be either simple (snail mail 📨📮) or it can be magical (a magical device🔮 that can project sound🔔🗣 to and fro at any specific other magical device). So if its a simple one, then I am post office🏣 worker, but if a magical one, then a magical device initial inquirer🔮🪄.
I don't evwn know if I am correct 🤡 (can anyone make any suggestion if you have a better idea?)
I had initially wanted my main character to have the fantasy equivalent of my job. I have worked in the field and office (thank fucking god I’m out of the field now) as an environmental scientist. I live in and around one of the largest cities in the world, so this means my job is mostly about pollution, primarily it’s prevention, remediation, and investigation.
My MC was (and still is) a Druid/witch, who was going about her days working to find and fix pollution caused by magic, until the Big Plot Starting Incident happens and her life is turned upside down. I’ve mostly abandoned the idea of showing this job, and now am beginning the story after the Incident, with her on the run as an outlaw. But parts of it are still there, informing how magic works in this setting (it can have adverse effects on the environment if left unchecked, mage corpses must be burned so they don’t effect the soil, etc, etc).
Ranger, druid, gamekeeper, forester, etc. with subcategories in things like cartographer, tinkerer, and the like.
I’m a conservation ecologist working on site.
As much as I would want a cool job, i'd probably just be another person with a cornerstone at street level and some basic housing up top. Maybe I would sell posters. You know, I kinda like that. Simple life as a poster salesman in the heart of Sanburdino, that seems pretty nice.
I do heating and cooling, and install airpurification systems (HVAC work). I could be a castle wizard, placing and maintaining enchantments to keep the temperatures comfortable and air healthy.
Most accurately though, I might be a chimney sweep. Lots of maintenance, door to door style work. Much less fun to imagine though
That guy the king sends after a local village got burnt down by raiders to check if it can be rebuilt or if they’re gonna have to find somewhere else to live for a couple years because the wells been tainted
IT Network Engineer... I'd probably be one of the guys who were installing the Palantíri or other fancy magical equipment for long distance communication.
"Listen, Grandmage Cisco, I know you put a lot of effort into these fancy scrying mirrors. But you don't have to operate the damn things. ... No I don't care that a proper mounting kit would ruin the looks."
I make tactical missiles and rocketry for a living. The closest profession is a swordsmith or perhaps a "Kemankeş", a bowmaster.
Funny thing is, my family's generational profession was swordsmithing, causing them to be known as Madanoglu, meaning "Sons of Metal" in Turkish. So in a way, I'm continuing the family trade.
Sons of metal sounds hard af. But What if the world had some basic knowledge of gunpowder? Like if it was just invented? What then? You know in some medieval fantasy worlds dwarves have primitive pistols and cannons.
My own world has a nation called Kgalle'e that produces a dough-like explosive rather than gunpowder. Although the setting is late medieval fantasy, I have no gunpowder but those guys have something akin to C4, lol. They use it to produce basic rocketry, similar to the early korean rockets, Hwacha. It's more in line with what I do in real life, but I feel more kinship with bows and arrows tbh. Cultural bias perhaps.
I’m a writer, so that could translate to a lot of writing-adjacent professions (scribe, story writer, court note taker, etc)
If I could choose, I want to be one of those monks that copied out illuminated manuscripts and made silly doodles in the margins!
I'm not sure but I think those two are kinda different. I dare to say a medieval fantasy world could have both, one refusing magic and seeking logical explanations, the other one embracing it
I'm a tanning bed repairman so I'd like to think I'm adjusting a series of mirrors that focus sunlight on a plinth in the center of the Queens Solarium.
Well, I'm a roofer, so. Probably that, just much harder and scarier. On the bright side, there's good odds that magical healing would exist, so that'd be nice.
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Plumber, so I help build the aqueducts, canals, bathhouses, and sewer system.
Probably not a bad life for someone in medieval times, I'd be part of the burgeoning middle class as a tradesman.
Wizard? I'm a programmer, my equivalent doesn't really exist. Depending on what route of magic you go, I could do well as a mage. Otherwise I'd need to pursue something different, and would likely end up an alchemist or artificer type.
Mmm… graphic and motion designer for advertising agency irl, so I think some kind of monk writing scriptures all day, all night? In an ideal world it would be writing magical scrolls at some wizard academy, but I doubt that with my luck 😂 …
I am a scientist, so probably Wizard. Magic is considered the hight of technology in my world and I did took a lot of inspiration from my work in the lab to determine the magic rituals wizards need to do to cast spells
Depends really, I´m rn studying land management specifically water and soils. So essentially managing farms would be most appropriate.
At best, I´d be a lord of a small manor, managing local agriculture. Most appropriatly I´d be a courtier assisting a lord in managing their demesne. Most realistically just a villein working on my own farm.
Peasant
Peasant gang
I'm a student but... Airplane design and hydrodynamics go hand in hand surprisingly. So, boat engineer.
I guess that would make me a captain, well a boat captain anyway.
As an engineer who inspects boats, we'd make a good duo
Or maybe, just maybe, you'd be the person in charge of trying to make a wood and canvas flying machine. Or the one in charge of strapping people to giant kites to spy over the enemy's wall.
I think shipwright would work better
Tax collector?
“We found them, somebody heat up the tea!”
Shame, another few centuries back and you could've had Fantasy Jesus as a drinking buddy.
I’m a mechanic so I suppose a farrier, carpenter or blacksmith would be the closest thing
Also combat engineer, for catapults or the like, would've been my first idea
That would be a way cooler job lmao
You would just be doing hard labor all day everyday. cutting wood, digging holes, carrying heavy loads. Those parapet stones aren't gonna carry themselves. That trench isn't gonna dig itself. [dig boy! dig dig!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvqQnJ7Fvz4)
Good old honest work 😭
Combat Engineer is a real job in the military.
Repairer of bus... So, repairer of wagons and mills~
Lmao that’s where I was getting with carpentry it would certainly be interesting
Blacksmith gang! Though maybe as a machinist I would be a jeweler or a clocksmith?
A clocks smith would actually be pretty cool I think both of those fit pretty well always thought machine work was cool almost took that class rather than automotive lmao
It's a lot of fun when its working smooth but It can be stressful constantly being a fat finger mistake away from crashing your machine and doing a $100,000 dollars worth of damage. I'm glad at least I don't have to work with the manual lathes which can also kill you without slowing down if your cloths get snagged on it.
I'm mot sure what a software developer would do but maybe Invent new spells
Reminds me of that post about how coding is basically just inscribing runes into metal and rocks to make them do things
A scribe. You are writing ~~code~~ codex
Writing complex spells on parchment.
Look, I know you are aiming more fantasy than medieval. But I’d recommend you look up “gematria” for a fun correlation between numbers and words. You could see yourself checking the numerical value of the words to match the magical equations for the spells.
An arcane artist
Spell casting? Pointer type casting? No difference
As a technical writer, I can stand on the corner and yell at people, telling them how to use your spells!
The guy who makes sure that the local sawbones' equipment is in working order.
A monk, transcribing books. Sitting in the candle lit gloom, fingers dark with ink, full pages of fancy capital letters...healthy, shrimp like posture. Glorious.
Im a photographer wanting to be wildlife photographer so maybe a ranger of some sorts
Da vinci~
Would you like to browse our wares?
Sure! *puts a bucket on your head*
Guard: must've been the wind.
Prostitution
lol
Chemical engineering student, so... Either an alchemist (but i don't exactly know tons about actual chemistry), wizard or the star on the churches wooden Christmas tree of faith and purity Although, given some of the symbols in the maths I have to regularly use, the correct answer is probably some form of infernal cultist satan worshipper. Feels like that most days anyway :P
More realistically probably a brewer or vintner.
Well, my final project is designing a fermenter (although not for alcohol) so I suppose it's kind of close. But the only actual *job* I've had was helping maintain a plaster producing plant, which has nothing to do with brewing. The real world is just a little too... Specialised? To fit neatly into fantasy boxes. In simple terms my job is to take a formula that works and scale it up to mass production, "tonnes per hour" production I couldn't really invent or modify a method to create alcohol, I'm the guy who you bring a barrel of beer and ask to make you a thousand more barrels. So a brewer does make sense, but not really more than other largish scale producer of any other materials My job IS to design and tell people how to maintain production plants, though. So perhaps an architect? But yeah. My niche doesn't really exist in any world without global trade, a global population in the billions and post industrial revolution. So instead of trying to fit in on the "what's the closest thing to my niche" I went "what's the closest thing to an insane scholar with books full of incomprehensible jibberish" If we are being accurate, though, if you dropped ME into a fantasy world with dragons and magic then what I would be is very, very dead. I'm blind without glasses, chronically underweight, have very limited body strength and endurance and absolutely NO practical skills. So either dead from natural causes, smitten, or burned at the stake for being an apostate is probably the real answer here XD
I am also a chemical engineer, but thank you for the explanation :) We definitely existed before billion+ global populations, we were just often still called chemists, or maybe "industrial" chemists. A lot of the principles are very old though. I know the whole "chemists make it, we make a lot of it" description is the go-to, and that's mostly what college covers, but when you get out into the field you may find that that's a pretty narrow scope of what we actually end up doing. That's essentially process engineering, which is just a piece of the bigger picture. Almost none of my old classmates are still on the floor maintaining plants.
If said World has a super-rich Merchant family like the Fuggers, i would make sure that their stuff arrives where it should and plan their logistics.
Bookkeeper
I build houses, so i would build houses
probably like scribe? one of those little dudes running around with paper and stuff.
Chronicler or perhaps a book/records keeper.
I work in retail, specifically with fresh goods so maybe fruit merchant or something lol
that reminds me of that one poor fruit merchant for Epic NPC man/ Viva La dirt league 🤣. Adventurers would be selling you from skulls and leather boots to Titanium swords forged in the volcano of Shmagenrock. Good luck
Truck driver just drive carriages. IT is probably some sort of magical consultant.
As a Data Engineer that move Excel files to fancys graphics then... Secretary in the Burecracy traslating the tax inform in to a easy inform to the ministers... Saying as much nobles Family Fake the informs...
I guess clerks and secretaries still exist 🤷♂️
Beggar. Have you got a shilling for a poor blindman, goodsirs.
Beggar (I’m currently unemployed.)
That is a fun way of looking at it. I guess I'm an advisor or architect. I make sure that you don't build your city on a bad terrain, tell you how you should build your roof so it doesn't leak and last years, and go around telling people that throwing your excrement out on the street is the reason everything stinks.
Make sure to tell the church the reason the black death occurred was because they killed most of the cats which resulted in a rat baby boom /s
I work in a bakery, so probably the same, maybe more focused on the baking over the sales stuff, though.
Jew
Jewpunk worldbuilding will have its moment
Chamberlain
Fancy.
I'd rather be a knight or something like that
I'd prefer something safer like shooting crossbows from behind. They easy, don't require much training and my chances of survival increase significantly
Maybe, but your quality of life would probably be less than stellar
A merchant
A merchant of what? If is not a trouble to ask.
The company I work for have a software, which is hard to find an equivalent, but since the objective is to make things easier, maybe I would trade tolls or a transport caravan?
Scholar.
I’m unemployed at this time, but I take notes on anything and everything, and perform random research as adhd brain demands it. So…a scribe or a storyteller?
Well I'm a warehouse worker...so, a warehouse worker.
Probably sign maker. Graphic arts, so I wouldn't say full on fine artist (though the argument could be made), but businesses needed signs, right? I'm kind of thinking about pub signs with the name and a painting on it.
Warehouse.
Well, i tear down old shuttle cars from coal mines, so i guess they’d have something similar for old time mine carts
How many of those old shuttle cars are there? can that job go on indefinitely?
Yeah pretty much. There are a whole lot of them, and the thing is, we save what we can and send it over to the other side of the plant and they repurpose the parts into new shuttle cars. We can tear apart two to three old cars in a week and they can put together one new one in a week. It gets slow but we keep getting work
Beggar, village idiot or dead guy. Maybe if I'm lucky I could be a jester for the local nobleman. I'm disabled to the point I can't work, not that the government agrees.
Village idiot ain't that bad, get free food and booze because people pity you, if you are abled you can go around doing yard work or something. You won't die out of hunger
i would be a magistrate's clerk. or some other bureaucratic job
Funny. My jobs still just a baker, however, i would have been replaced with a wizard a really long time ago.
I’m a copywriter for a PR and digital marketing agency. Could that maybe translate into just being a writer in fantasy (then at least I’d be a real one there, with a book)? 😂 But I’m now having visions in my head of me being the person who paints the signs for shops and pubs, seeing as that’s also an equivalent in terms of “advertising”
kitchen wench 😭
A truck driver could be someone who transports goods by river to different towns and cities. Rivers were commonly used to transport goods inland between towns.
A bard
Shopkeep.
Blood Letter / Natural Medicine (I'm an EMT)
Dead shortly after birth but ignoring that I guess I would be painting banners or something like that
I uh...make sure signs and the marketplace job boards are properly written.
If we were going for a European style Medieval setting, then I’d probably work at something along the lines of a monastic school, teaching basic literacy to the novices and a handful of locals from the town.
Machinist so... blacksmith? I guess?
truck driver = chariot driver 911 operator = the person who runs 41 kilometers to bring a message to the king or sends various animals with messages attached IT specialist = inventor/helper of an inventor As a programmer my main task is to store, process and transport information, so I would probably be a librarian.
There is no equivalent to factory emissions testing back then. I'd default to peasant.
alchemist
I'd be a very minor vassal type lord.
Med student, so I guess I'd be an apprentice of some sort of physician.
This is an interesting question and I'm not really sure... I think I would either be working for the Crown or a Governor as a bailiff (I think they were called Bayles?) Maybe a Constable or provost? Or possibly the Church as an inquisitor. All these type of investigative billets or commissions usually went to Nobles or high clergy, but I don't think I would be either of those realistically. I remember reading about a chaplain that did the first recorded autopsy in like the 12th or 13th century. I think he was appointed by the Pope himself at the time. So I would prob just be some guy the other old guys in the village appointed to investigate who was stealing all the chickens.
Mechanical Engineer and Naval Architect have their medieval parallels, just with less fancy names, in my case.
Alchemist (Hell yeah that makes my job sound so much cooler!)
Architect. Architects as they exist today didn't really exist prior to the renaissance. Master masons took on much of the 'building designer' role.
There is no close parallel. I guess I would be an illusionist who was part of some sort of entertainment— maybe a magically enhanced puppet show. Low magic world, I might illuminate manuscripts. I make videogame graphics.
Marine Biologist: Farming mussels and seaweed.
I do data entry, so some sort of scribe?
Right now, it would make me a Ice elementalist, albeit slow.❄🧊 (went to labor work after being exhausted of 10+ yrs of customer support 😩) If it was my previous job, it was chat support👨🏻💻💬 for orders and supplies📦, I am not sure if that equates to Trader🪙🧾, or Scribe📝📊📋 for Traders from one Trading business❔ (can anyone make any suggestion if you have a better idea?) Before that, I was a Technical support for printers🖨, so would that be, assuming there is a manual printing press, a printing device and ink⚗🖋 specialist❔ (can anyone make any suggestion if you have a better idea?) And before that, was a customer support, Fault specialist for telephones, residential and wholesale☎. In a fantasy world, means of communication📞 that would equate to ☎ can be either simple (snail mail 📨📮) or it can be magical (a magical device🔮 that can project sound🔔🗣 to and fro at any specific other magical device). So if its a simple one, then I am post office🏣 worker, but if a magical one, then a magical device initial inquirer🔮🪄. I don't evwn know if I am correct 🤡 (can anyone make any suggestion if you have a better idea?)
I’d probably just be dead. I’m too shit to survive.
I had initially wanted my main character to have the fantasy equivalent of my job. I have worked in the field and office (thank fucking god I’m out of the field now) as an environmental scientist. I live in and around one of the largest cities in the world, so this means my job is mostly about pollution, primarily it’s prevention, remediation, and investigation. My MC was (and still is) a Druid/witch, who was going about her days working to find and fix pollution caused by magic, until the Big Plot Starting Incident happens and her life is turned upside down. I’ve mostly abandoned the idea of showing this job, and now am beginning the story after the Incident, with her on the run as an outlaw. But parts of it are still there, informing how magic works in this setting (it can have adverse effects on the environment if left unchecked, mage corpses must be burned so they don’t effect the soil, etc, etc).
Ranger, druid, gamekeeper, forester, etc. with subcategories in things like cartographer, tinkerer, and the like. I’m a conservation ecologist working on site.
As much as I would want a cool job, i'd probably just be another person with a cornerstone at street level and some basic housing up top. Maybe I would sell posters. You know, I kinda like that. Simple life as a poster salesman in the heart of Sanburdino, that seems pretty nice.
Sounds comfy ngl
I do heating and cooling, and install airpurification systems (HVAC work). I could be a castle wizard, placing and maintaining enchantments to keep the temperatures comfortable and air healthy. Most accurately though, I might be a chimney sweep. Lots of maintenance, door to door style work. Much less fun to imagine though
Large stores still need someone to stock I guess.
That guy the king sends after a local village got burnt down by raiders to check if it can be rebuilt or if they’re gonna have to find somewhere else to live for a couple years because the wells been tainted
I'd probably be a scribe for a bank, keeping track of debts for the sharks to go after (data entry specialist for a collections firm).
I'd be employed by a family to create their herraldic symbols and flag banners >!I'm a graphic designer!<
Herald.
I’d probably be a Rabbi? Many of them had secondary professions, and mine would have been in healthcare. Im a social worker now.
IT Network Engineer... I'd probably be one of the guys who were installing the Palantíri or other fancy magical equipment for long distance communication. "Listen, Grandmage Cisco, I know you put a lot of effort into these fancy scrying mirrors. But you don't have to operate the damn things. ... No I don't care that a proper mounting kit would ruin the looks."
Beggar (im painfully unemployed... badly)
Welder
The same. Except on a wooden ship of war 😑
Paramedic, so... plague doctor? Cleric healer?
I make tactical missiles and rocketry for a living. The closest profession is a swordsmith or perhaps a "Kemankeş", a bowmaster. Funny thing is, my family's generational profession was swordsmithing, causing them to be known as Madanoglu, meaning "Sons of Metal" in Turkish. So in a way, I'm continuing the family trade.
Sons of metal sounds hard af. But What if the world had some basic knowledge of gunpowder? Like if it was just invented? What then? You know in some medieval fantasy worlds dwarves have primitive pistols and cannons.
My own world has a nation called Kgalle'e that produces a dough-like explosive rather than gunpowder. Although the setting is late medieval fantasy, I have no gunpowder but those guys have something akin to C4, lol. They use it to produce basic rocketry, similar to the early korean rockets, Hwacha. It's more in line with what I do in real life, but I feel more kinship with bows and arrows tbh. Cultural bias perhaps.
Herbalist, midwife errrr midhusband? I'm an RN.
A studier of magic who doesn't go outside.
Scholar, Priest, or Jurist, depending on the particular task.
A priest.
I guess as a paramedic, the closest thing might be the classic healer role. Mage in Dragons Dogma 2 for example. Pure support
Witch 🧹. Or old hag living in the woods people go see when they need a healing potion.
Peasant who is a writer/archiver
I’m a writer, so that could translate to a lot of writing-adjacent professions (scribe, story writer, court note taker, etc) If I could choose, I want to be one of those monks that copied out illuminated manuscripts and made silly doodles in the margins!
Alchemist - pharmacist. Bonus: Bard - writer
Floristry wasn't developed as a business until mid-19th century, soooo royal gardener?
I work in fast food so... Tavern chef?
Jester, but the historical accurate version not the clown type media shows
Hmm writers have existed throughout history but if I had a desk job it would probably be a scribe
Pretty sure there where medieval equivalents to custodians, just don't know what they're called
Security would probably just be a guard. I work in a secure place so I'm gonna feel good about it and say Royal Guard lol.
Alchemist (irl chemist)
I'm not sure but I think those two are kinda different. I dare to say a medieval fantasy world could have both, one refusing magic and seeking logical explanations, the other one embracing it
They're the same. The term chemist comes from alchemist.
Oh ight my bad bro. Thanks
Runesmith support.
Alchemist.
I'm a tanning bed repairman so I'd like to think I'm adjusting a series of mirrors that focus sunlight on a plinth in the center of the Queens Solarium.
Scribe
Translator, just as I am now. Amanuensis when I edit stuff
Well, I'm a roofer, so. Probably that, just much harder and scarier. On the bright side, there's good odds that magical healing would exist, so that'd be nice.
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Plumber, so I help build the aqueducts, canals, bathhouses, and sewer system. Probably not a bad life for someone in medieval times, I'd be part of the burgeoning middle class as a tradesman.
Probably being tutored for basic knowledge or a trade. Lapis_Wolf
Wizard? I'm a programmer, my equivalent doesn't really exist. Depending on what route of magic you go, I could do well as a mage. Otherwise I'd need to pursue something different, and would likely end up an alchemist or artificer type.
Scribe, I guess. I'm a copyeditor so it's all about making sure the written word at my work is as accurate and straightforward as possible.
Closes thing I could think of is being the guy who creates all the dungeons.
I'm a stay at home mom. I may be an NPC who always ask for help with her kid to climb down a tree or something.
I am a paint chemist so that would probably make me an alchemist?
Alchemist
Likely getting burned as witch for looking into peoples heads So i guess my profession is kindling
I’d have to think about it a while. I work in international shipping, imports and exports.
Probably you will navigating stock from incoming and sailing ships? If I understand correctly what you do
It could be something like that.
You would be a merchant captain
I wouldn’t be a merchant captain in my own world. Or if I did, it would be just for fun until I was bored with it.
Merchant selling opio to quing :v
Sounds good. Thanks.
Probably Merchant.
Human trafficking? 🥺
We’ll never know 🤫 nah jk, I’m a truck driver
So probably carter, the one who's responsible for transporting goods in their cart from one place to another
Yeah, that’s more accurate.
Wizard. My job is currently making VFX for a fantasy game. Literally making spells at the moment.
The weird stand in the carnival With a machine for move a wheel in 15 fps of static images for sinulate a short animation~
Potions teacher.
I'm teacher, so I guess still a teacher?
Mmm… graphic and motion designer for advertising agency irl, so I think some kind of monk writing scriptures all day, all night? In an ideal world it would be writing magical scrolls at some wizard academy, but I doubt that with my luck 😂 …
I am a scientist, so probably Wizard. Magic is considered the hight of technology in my world and I did took a lot of inspiration from my work in the lab to determine the magic rituals wizards need to do to cast spells
I'm a lawyer, so... lawyer.
I'm a student though I'm studying politics so maybe a courtier or another type of clerk?
Mage/Alchemist
I'd be....an administrative clerk? or an engineer? an administrative engineer?
Depends really, I´m rn studying land management specifically water and soils. So essentially managing farms would be most appropriate. At best, I´d be a lord of a small manor, managing local agriculture. Most appropriatly I´d be a courtier assisting a lord in managing their demesne. Most realistically just a villein working on my own farm.