If you had lived in a time before computers, what would you have studied?

Question

Say you were born before modern computing was invented or even though of. What would you have chosen as your profession or field of study? Did you have any backup plan in your life that would be what you would have done, or have you always known you wanted to be involved in software.

Any hobbyist programmers? What would you do with your free time instead?

Answer 1

Possibly Astronomy related, but since that wouldn't pay the bills back then (or now, har), anything creative. IMO developers are a creative bunch who like making new things, so I'd say us "software engineers" would become other types of engineers and/or builders.