If you were born in 1900s
Imagine that you were born in 1900, and have good enough background to get a degree from a college. What type of career would you pursue?
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If I had been born exactly 100 years prior, I would have, foolishly, but undoubtely, joined all those cheering school boys, students, tradesmen and farmers in their flower-crowned march to the death in some bloody fucking mud hole in Flanders. If you ever want a reality check about your career or your future, I suggest you visit those graveyards, puts things a bit into perspective.
I deliberately didnt wrote about WW1 to see this comment. +1SB.
Small typo - one would needed to have been born roughly 125 years ago to be 18-20 at the time of the battle at Flanders field.
Crazy I remember how world war 1 was less than a century old when I was at school and you could potentially still find some 100 year old vet.
Just imagine stress while being in those trenches for days and weeks. And the only exist opts was running into the battlefield while artillery was firing. People were made of steel literally.
Not really. I was born mid 1990s, so had I been born in the 1890s, I would have finished school by the time the Great War broke out. And being the prideful, dreamhedaded dumbfuck I was, I would have eaten up the nationalistic fervor like buttercakes.
If I was born 100 years before I was actually born I would've been 18 in 1915.
I would want to be an executive in the movie industry. It would be really cool being behind some of the "first" films that spawned certain genres (comedy, action) etc etc. Would just be a bunch of fun in general
I'd probably be part of the bootlegging business and have other lads as the front men. At the same time, have a legitimate business of some sort (logistics/transportation.)
Real estate - didn’t start booming until the 90s. Imagine just owning a handful of properties from the 1900s and holding it until now. Your future generations would always be taken care of.
Yeah, buy up all that good land near US Steel and Ford Motors ;)
For me it would be aerospace. Found a little airplane company in the twenties, have the US gov buy my shit in WW2, and who knows where else I'd go
Railroads probably or steel, some industrial product type back then.
Oil or steel most likely
High finance at one of the banks that were existing around then (prob modern day BB)
Being female it might be even harder to gain a degree back then, so I would assume I must be super wealthy like that french countess who studied female orgasms (she was actually in the time of Casanova so pre 1900).If I was that wealthy, I would have studied whatever I wanted, most likely history, economics, and politics. I am not sure that economics was much of a discipline back then, so likely I would have studied history and archaeology perhaps, gone on one of those imperial digs in Egypt or the Near East if I was lucky enough, aside from the stealing another cultures artefacts, that would be awesome, and being imperial I likely would not have considered it stealing back then.Also a side note: everyone who answered the question assuming they have the hindsight or knowledge they have now from the 21st century, you are misunderstanding the question.It is "What would you study IF you were born in 1900". If you were born in 1900 you by definition were not born now in this era. You would have the knowledge of someone born in 1900. No hindsight. No investing in Apple when it was a start up etc.The comment about WWI is also valid, and I might have decided to study nursing instead.
Interesting answer
Oil or Ads.
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