baking did exist as far as i know well back into the 1970s

Being a gentleman scholar? Yes, I think so.

Probably couldn't get good weed so opium den here I come!

It's mostly tech related stuff, although not consistent enough to get ant sort of tangible benefit out of it.

I'd likely be working as a blacksmith, or doing hr/getting carpal tunnel writing in spreadsheets for some company, while having blacksmithing as a hobby.

I love working on in-depth puzzle solving, anything from everyday problems, to disassembling computer programs... I think I might have been something involving that sorta thing. Not super math related, more like pattern identifying.

i guess it'd be a book series about an interdimensional... whatever the predecessor of a train is, because steam locomotives would've been just 5 years out. idk, did sci-fi writers talk about alternate dimensions yet?

It work definitely didn't exist, but I might have gotten into clockwork or engineering instead maybe. Anything which has to do with automation and efficiency

Bread, and it would be so much more fun without Wonderbread destroying the industry

Bread.

Most of them did not, although information posters would be the closest precursor to my beloved PIFs and PSAs.

Fall of the Roman Empire for me. Edward Gibbons wrote 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' in the late 18th century, so yes, I could've studied it before that.