Could you survive?

[HadleyH]

But have you been to the moon lately? It's not like it used to be,...too many tourists. lol

Hmmm....how can I answer that ... Okay. [huh]

 

[Phil]

I would love to do that actually. As much as I do love the internet, I see it as a hassle sometimes. Hey, as long as I have a trumpet, I have a job. I would love to have the chance to play in Glenn Miller's band or Count Basie's. As for the attire, I'm sure it's somehting that I could get used to. I've done marhcing in 90 degree (F) weather, I can do a suit. Finally, as long as I can drive a car and drive it fast. I'll be fine.

 

[pretty faythe]

Since women in the electical union back then were telephone operators, and the only time I was ever an operator was when I worked as directory assistance (411) I'd either have to be trained for, or go back to an older line of work, reception/secretarial. I know how to use non-electric typewriters, (I'd just have to pay attention to what I am typing, instead of my laziness and typos that I am aware of), dictophone, etc.
[huh]

 

[Phil]

I almost forgot. the best part, I could use "dahling"!

 

[CharlieH.]

Could I survive in 1937? Heck, I'd actually be better off then than I am now! (sounds naive, but I have my reasons) Like some have mentioned, I've got skills more fitting to that period, particularly in the field of graphic arts. And if it doesn't work out at that, I could work on a railroad, preferably as a Pullman porter. I've worked out this particular "what if" to great extent, but I shant bore you with details.

 

[panamag8or]

I suppose I could work in radio, or maybe for a newspaper. My grandkids would be rather wealthy, since I would know what coins, toys and knick-knacks would be pulling in the money in 2007.

I would probably miss TV, even though I would have radio. I would definitely miss air conditioning.

 

[Diamondback]

Send me back and I'm dead, if not from the "virtual lobotomy" of being forcibly separated from "mission-critical" computer equipment and reliable communications, then from the Coke-bottles breaking my nose.

Miss N, I think I trump Fletch--IIRC, one of my eyes is 20/400 without corrective optics in place. (As I type this, I have removed my glasses, and on my 17" widescreen at 1440x900, with my nose about 12" from the screen, the only things I can read clearly are my keyboard and the large lettering in the FL logo.)

 

[DeeDub]

Although I've done other things, I owe the majority of my livelihood the past couple of decades to computer programming. So in 1937, I'd have to find something else to do for a few years until I become a pioneer in the field. Fortran was my first language, so who's to say I didn't give John Backus the idea to invent it?

That would leave me about 17 years until the start of Fortran. I've always been pretty handy with a keyboard, so typing or typesetting is in the realm of possibility. More likely, since I studied engineering and electronics before I took up software for fun and profit, I would enjoy fixing radios. That would be a pretty convenient excuse to spend all day listening to some of the greatest jazz when it was new!

 

[akaBruno]

Ah... you would have all been lucky to find a job with the CCC or WPA. Or maybe sittin outside a slaughter house somewhere waiting with a hundred other guys, to be the next body picked. After losing your homes a lot of ya would end up ridin the rails out to Californy to find work as a picker. No worry though. The job market is gonna really pick up for women in about 5 years.

Ah yes... the good old days.

Bruno

 

[panamag8or]

Ah... you would have all been lucky to find a job with the CCC or WPA. Or maybe sittin outside a slaughter house somewhere waiting with a hundred other guys, to be the next body picked. After losing your homes a lot of ya would end up ridin the rails out to Californy to find work as a picker. No worry though. The job market is gonna really pick up for women in about 5 years.

Ah yes... the good old days.

Bruno

You and your darned facts. lol

 

[Diamondback]

OTOH for me, Mac might have had use for a kindred spirit as a protege and right-hand man--I'd like to think I coulda done a better job than Dick Sutherland as Mac's Chief of Staff, although I would prefer a position allowing me a little more time at the front...

 

[HadleyH]

Ah... you would have all been lucky to find a job with the CCC or WPA. Or maybe sittin outside a slaughter house somewhere waiting with a hundred other guys, to be the next body picked. After losing your homes a lot of ya would end up ridin the rails out to Californy to find work as a picker. No worry though. The job market is gonna really pick up for women in about 5 years.

Ah yes... the good old days.

Bruno

One way or another,I bet you'd have survived too! [huh]

 

[Miss Sis]

I trained as a nanny and now work in recruitment for childcare, so I could run an agency - or heck, get married and be a housewife! lol

 

[Cobden]

If I were transported back to 1937 I'd probably be Royally stuffed. Not that I wouldn't be able to survive or get a job, more because I'd be 23 when the world starts doing war impressions

If it were 1920, I'd probably join the Indian Army as an officer. I'm used to wearing jackets in ridiculously hot weather, and it would be easier to live in a lifestyle I'm accustommed to (albeit with servents replacing electric dishwashers, etc.) then in the UK. Plus, there were a few campaigns against the wild Pathans that should keep me from getting bored...

 

[HungaryTom]

Survive

One way or another,I bet you'd have survived too! [huh]

Exactly as even civilians survived WW2 and the Eastern Front and the most miserable situations therein- and others didn't. I just talked with the survivors.

The peacetime? It was a glory days for my grand parents and their generation - they tell about hardship but emphasize how beautiful and young they were - and the few B/W photos of smiling children, young beauties and dashing gents really confirm that.

Quote from my wife's late grandpa: you know I wasn't born with wrinkles and as an ugly old man either.

 

[Harry Pierpont]

Where do we sign up?

I would have no problem surviving, the mechanical skills God has given me work in any time period. I'm sure Bonniejean would make it, heck she'd still have me! lol I don't think our kids would make it very well without technology.

 

[Fletch]

Ah... you would have all been lucky to find a job with the CCC or WPA. Or maybe sittin outside a slaughter house somewhere waiting with a hundred other guys, to be the next body picked. After losing your homes a lot of ya would end up ridin the rails out to Californy to find work as a picker. No worry though. The job market is gonna really pick up for women in about 5 years.

Ah yes... the good old days.

Bruno

Nobody in my family had to Okie it. My ggf got busted from fruit wholesaler to restaurant owner and my gf from salesman to waiter. My great uncles, both in sales, had to go small-time, from feed and seed to door-to-door greeting cards (but not for long). My other gf had to pull up stakes every few years running rural weekly papers, and was a bitter skinflint till his dying day. But everybody had food, clothes, a roof, and usually a car and radio too.

 

[Doctor Strange]

My current occupation as a software documentation specialist wouldn't exist, but I could fall back on my earlier photographic experience. Since I learned in the 60s/70s from my pro parents - who still mostly used the common techniques/equipment of the 30s/40s at that time - I'd be right at home!

 

[MrPumpernickel]

Could I make a living? Of course, and I think anyone with the mind of a 21st century person could make a very good living in 1937. I would easily become an inventor and invent things that hadn't yet been invented but would be before 2007, and I could care less about the historical rammifications. I would invest money in new businesses that I know would become large in the future. Heck, it'd be hard NOT to make a great living.

My current occupation as a callcenter employee would not exist though, I could possibly take a job at a switchboard, but those jobs were largely only for women. Phones would exist, but not to be utilized in the manner I'd need to do my job.

The largest problem would be the lack of computers and a world spanning network of communication, i.e. Internet. I would have to give up things like computer art which I love and work with more low-tech solutions. I would be somewhat bored I believe. Though, on the other hand if I followed what I wrote in the first paragraph I would be rich beyond belief which would enable me to travel and see the world, to go to places before they became exploited by mass market economy.

 

[Twitch]

I could sell anything in those days as well as these so no problem with work, but as far as tech goes I'd miss the PC but not much else. I wore a suit every day in modern times so vintage would be same deal different style.