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

"You know how we dug out that trench to let some of the river through for irrigation, and then we fill it in for winter? Yeah I do that, but much smaller, and much faster, on sand. Got a shovel?"

Not much different than weirder than meat thinking.

For the uninitiated: https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html