If a person from 1700 asked you your job, would they understand your answer, and if not, how would you explain it to them?

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I steer gigantic metal birds pulled by armies of horses carrying dozens of people, to the antipodes... in less than one day... using dead animal juice.

... But I don't see any horses. Surely they can't move on their own! Who is pushing them?

There's a guy, Isaac Newton, he's 57. Ask him about his second third law, hopefully he came up with it already.