Old West Jobs

Flipping channels today and landed on an old western. Got me thinking:

If I were in the old west, what would I do for a job?

First thoughts were Blacksmith or Locomotive engineer.

What would you do?

I'd run a whore house after watching Deadwood.

I'd be selling high end four wheel buggy parts, maybe?

Honestly, I'd probably try to write news media in a small to medium sized town.

Village Idiot.

I would run a stagecoach company.

Dressmaker. Seriously... have you seen how awesome those ladies dress?

I have some real skills with the fabric, I get to make women look good, and they would assume I'm gay which means I get to see them naked.

Stealth. Oh yeah.

Town drunk.

I would be working on the Railroad in some manner. I would like to think locomotive engineer or fireman, but even a station master would be cool.

More than likely, I'd be dead.

(life expectancy and all of that)

My great grandfather was a blacksmith, so I would probably have been working for him by the time I turned eight.

Chuck Wagon cook. I always wanted to be called "cookie"

Rancher.

There was so much land back then and it was soooo cheap, most people just didn't know what to do with large amounts of land.

Till the railroad came...

road agent. not enough law to stop me back then.

toll booth operator

Something railroad/steam power or involving blacksmithing or gunsmithing. Or I'd run a saloon/gamblin'parlor/hoor-house.

I would be a Cartwright. Yep, I loves me some Bonanza!

I actually think I could be pretty good at making and repairing carts.

The town Merchantile. Yeah, I could get into that.

EastCoastMojo wrote: I would be a Cartwright. Yep, I loves me some Bonanza! I actually think I could be pretty good at making and repairing carts.

I would want to be Little Joe.

Blacksmith / farrier. Fire, check. Metal, check. Hammers of all sizes, check. And horses all seem to like me.

That or locomotive & rail equipment repair.

A lot of my ancestors were miners, under no circumstance would I want to continue that tradition.

I'd be John goddamned Marston, and not his berkeley ass kid.

I brew beer. I could distill pretty easily too.

Hangman.

Cole_Trickle wrote: Village Idiot. I would run a stagecoach company.

I've heard they are pretty much the same.

Probably Railroad Conductor. Mostly so I could wear my vest and pocket watch more often.

My kin were farmers, railroad conductors, lumbermen and grocerymen. I would probably be one of those.