Depends on which side of the family. Unlike today, I’m not confident either career path would have resulted in survival to my thirty somethings… Mom’s maternal: Tending to lodgers Dad’s side: Probably subsistence farming (census papers list residence as farms) and/or moonshine runner
RevanEnough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?