Highwall Posted February 14, 2020 Posted February 14, 2020 Ever consider what your profession would have been if you were born 100 years before your birthday? For me it would have been 1851 so I would have thankfully been too young for the Civil War or it probably would have ended there. Considering my retail career in today's world and organizational skills I imagine I would have been a shop keeper in a dry goods store in some small town in Kansas. I think it would have been rewarding to have been a train engineer back then. That would be my first choice but not realistic to my actual occupation.
Marshal Chance Morgun Posted February 14, 2020 Posted February 14, 2020 Well, since my families were farmers, I likely would have been one, too.
Yusta B. Posted February 14, 2020 Posted February 14, 2020 1842 - probably wouldn't have survived the Civil War ......
Tex Wilson Posted February 14, 2020 Posted February 14, 2020 1849 - another (young) civil war casualty.
MBFields Posted February 14, 2020 Posted February 14, 2020 1858, probably a farmer as did that for the last 42 years.
Cat Brules Posted February 14, 2020 Posted February 14, 2020 Likely a military officer, a banker, business owner, or even a railroad executive, all of which probably would have taken me West. Who knows how we’d be influenced by situations, educational and other opportunities and surroundings? It would be fascinating to travel back to those times! Cat Brules.
Lead Monger Posted February 14, 2020 Posted February 14, 2020 1857. Defiantly would have been working with or on machinery.
Smoken D Posted February 14, 2020 Posted February 14, 2020 1851 Lawman out West just like the family tree has always been. Guess they would not have been hand-me-down guns. I would have had them as original's. That might have been cool. But would rather been born 1951
Marshal Hangtree Posted February 14, 2020 Posted February 14, 2020 1857, if I was following family trends, I would have been a carpenter. Instead, I chose law enforcement. So I guess I'd have been a law man out west.
High Spade Mikey Wilson Posted February 14, 2020 Posted February 14, 2020 1856 and I probably would have had a gunsmith shop.
Goody, SASS #26190 Posted February 14, 2020 Posted February 14, 2020 1856. Either a bartender or brothel owner.
Rafe Conager SASS #56958 Posted February 14, 2020 Posted February 14, 2020 1862 probably would have followed the family tradition and been a soldier, or bounty hunter Rafe
Rye Miles #13621 Posted February 14, 2020 Posted February 14, 2020 I would have been born in 1847, I would have been 13 or 14 when the Civil War started. My family is all from Italy (except my mom) so who knows? Probably a farmer.
Hendo Posted February 14, 2020 Posted February 14, 2020 1864, Probably a Trooper standing watch on some stupid piece of scrub in the territories, complaining about how heavy my carbine is an wondering what my life would be like if I was born a hundred years from now.
Yul Lose Posted February 14, 2020 Posted February 14, 2020 1854, coffin builder or outlaw ( coffin filler).
Hendo Posted February 14, 2020 Posted February 14, 2020 2 minutes ago, Yul Lose said: 1854, coffin builder or outlaw ( coffin filler). How about both? That way you could always keep your business busy.
Mud Marine,SASS#54686 Life Posted February 14, 2020 Posted February 14, 2020 Half of my family were investment bankers and the others were ranchers. As many on the wire know, the investment banking side invested in the West. I guess that's why I was both before retirement.
Jabez Cowboy,SASS # 50129 Posted February 14, 2020 Posted February 14, 2020 Probably Dead ,,,,, My appendix Burst when I was 8 ,,, Great care in a 1960s hospital in Denmark saved my life .... Moved Back to Canada in 1967...... Barring that happening I would likely have followed along Family lines ,,, Lawman , Military Officer, Buffalo Hunter or Rancher ... My dad's Father did the First three,,, adding Circus Strongman as well ... My mom's Dad was mostly a Rancher ,,, though in latter years he added a Trash ( city garbage collection ) Collection Business to his resume .... Jabez Cowboy
Tequila Shooter Posted February 14, 2020 Posted February 14, 2020 1860, Texas Ranger, Pinkerton or Enlisted Schlub in the military. Of course if I had the life then that I did this time around I probably would've been dead early on.
irish ike, SASS #43615 Posted February 14, 2020 Posted February 14, 2020 Wheel Right/Carpenter no ones going to shoot at ya, you get to live in town, everyone needs you at some point.
Trailrider #896 Posted February 14, 2020 Posted February 14, 2020 1842. Probably an Army officer had I survived a case of scarlet fever at age five, when there were no antibiotics. As it was, a hundred years later, the military hadn't released any penicillin to the civilian population except for sulfa! Had I survived the CW and had the funds to attend college, I probably would have become some type of engineer, possibly building railroad equipment including locomotives.
Brimstone Bill Willson Posted February 14, 2020 Posted February 14, 2020 1877, I would have missed most of the real old west. I would want to see if Henry Ford would hire me in the engineering department.
Ramblin Gambler Posted February 14, 2020 Posted February 14, 2020 World's first computer programmer. Or maybe president.
Highwall Posted February 15, 2020 Author Posted February 15, 2020 3 hours ago, Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 said: OUTLAW Interesting! So if your profession would be outlaw 100 years ago what would it be today?
Hendo Posted February 15, 2020 Posted February 15, 2020 5 minutes ago, Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 said: SAME Is that according to your inlaws?
JP McLintock Posted February 15, 2020 Posted February 15, 2020 1878, most likely the same as my great grandfather, soldier in the Spanish American war, then probably a blacksmith or saddle maker.
Highwall Posted February 15, 2020 Author Posted February 15, 2020 44 minutes ago, Hendo said: Is that according to your inlaws? good stuff here.
Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 Posted February 15, 2020 Posted February 15, 2020 renegade , rebel , and rogue , my high points
Chili Pepper Kid, SASS #60463 Posted February 15, 2020 Posted February 15, 2020 A cowboy working for $30 a month and found.
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