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Why not be an actor? Then you could be any one of these whenever you wanted.
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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Hmm. I did try for that when I was young but missed out on a great part and went in a different direction.
Moral: try everything you can; what have you got to lose?
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I would be the equivalent of a Dune "mentat," using thought alone to create and shape realities. The fact I was physically confined in a mental institution would not bother me, since I could manufacture transcorporeal freedom any time I wanted to.
I would be blogging about this (of course) by implanting memories in the subconscious minds of millions of people.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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I expected no less of you man! 
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I almost fell off my unicorn reading that...
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I think this is the beginning of a beautiful story line that you will transform into a multi-billion dollar enterprise. It goes without saying - books, speaking event, and movies, oh yes the movies.
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I am a farmer, but I could not farm the way I do without computers. Those machines are best help a guy can get.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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Cramps in the feet and legs symbolize falling victim to an evil attack and being unable to stand, and they symbolize being taken out of the battle in Spiritual Warfare. The person with the cramp cannot stand on the battlefield. A person in the Divine Dynasphere can stand against the devil. Limbs that have cramps are weak and need to be strengthened, corresponding to recovery from reversionism
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Nurse Ratched, he's escaped again!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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DNFTT!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I would be a... lumberjack!
Leaping from tree to tree as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia!
The giant redwood, the larch, the fir, the mighty scots pine!
The smell of fresh-cut timber! The crash of mighty trees!
With my best girlie by my side...
(I would probably have gone into electrical engineering)
EDIT: quote from Monty Python's Flying Circus: Just the Words - Episode 9[^]
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Cabinet maker, I love working with wood. In my younger more foolish days I was a house painter and also made lots of furniture before I discovered computers.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Since I started working before computers were personal. I would be in engineering. Yes, you can do engineering without computers, it just takes longer.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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I've often wondered that. The list I came up with is psychologist, philosopher, theologian, or monk, depending on how far back in time you want to go. Possibly architect.
Then again, I'd probably be dead, having either died pathetically as a conscripted foot soldier in a war or from disease, or at best been a farmer. I seriously doubt I would have risen through any military ranks, but politician might have been possible, though in that case I would have lost my marbles drinking from lead-laced aqueducts if in Rome.
Marc
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I'd be the inventor of the first computer. 
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I would still be a chemist. It was a lot of fun, but I don't miss it.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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A fishing guide, specializing in Musky[^],  oh dare to dream.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I would be totally lost. It's the only thing I know how to do. I hate all physical work (well... almost all  ) and I have two left hands. Perhaps I'd be an artist or a writer, I've done both in the past, but in that case I'd be starving too 
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If computers weren't in existence I think I'd just drive a truck.
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(male) escort first, with some sex work to bump up the income. trouble of starting new again is it takes a while before you can be a bit more choosy. Might also need to shift location unless supplemented with part time construction work.
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Most likely, I would still be in the restaurant business. I worked over 6 years in one before the Marine Corps taught me how to program correctly. It's possible that I would be retired now, having sold the restaurant that I bought when I was 30.
Currently reading: "The Prince", by Nicolo Machiavelli
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A Forest Ranger. It's the only career I ever went out of my way to research in the high school Guidance Office.
It's my "road not taken."
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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Since my father and brother were auto mechanic's I would probably follow in that. I still do alot of my own car repairs and most of the body work. So it is something I could do. Either that or carpentry. It does seem to me that alot of the skills you use in troubleshooting and building stuff in computers is directly the same when I am building a bookshelf or repairing a car. So that I feel is where I would be.
Either that or traveling in Columbia trying to not get killed. But who knows.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Interesting Question.
Without computers, the whole world would look differently.
Assuming we had electricity, and automation was still required.
I would be doing "hard-wiring" of systems to create things.
My skills are simply in analysis and automation. Making peoples lives easier.
A Mechanical Loom. Studying self-playing pianos...
MAYBE an electrician like my father as a fall back.
Kirk Out!
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