Tell me about your characters' professions!

Posted 5 years, 8 months ago by Demonite

I really like when characters have jobs and career that they are starting to/already pursuing! There's so much content where characters are only students, so it's fun to see characters old enough to be doing real jobs.

So tell me about what your character does for a living!

Guardy

*rubs hands*

Equinox (a vaguely early-19th-century-inspired arcanepunk adventure story with political intrigue stuff)
Absalom Hayes used to be a navy captain (on a proper big wooden ship with sails and all) until he had to leave; now he's an airship captain in the service of the Royal Postal Company (also on a proper big wooden ships with sails and all, except this one flies and has opinions on things), ferrying mail and the occasional military missive across the empire. It may not be quite as glamorous, but Absalom loves his job - the entire airship part, yes, but he also appreciates the difference between war ships bringing death and destruction (which nobody likes, particularly) and mail ships bringing mail (which most people do like to get, especially in an era where most correspondence is private conversations between friends and family). On the other hand, he could do without the pirates hoping for shipments of money - which is a valid assumption, yes, but not on a ship this lightly armed.

Severin Lapointe is... kind of a battlemage serving in the army except he's technically retired for medical reason and now mainly trains young wizard recruits fresh from the Magical Academy. People like to forget about the "retired" part, and while he'd definitely refuse going to war again, he gets sent around the empire a lot for menial tasks and other assorted boring stuff. The training is fun, at least, though he absolutely hates how they're trying to turn sixteen-year-old kids into magical weapons of mass destruction, presumed "greater good" or not. It's peace time, for crying out loud! Unfortunately, the kids are going to join up anyway, so he just tries his best to make the experience as little traumatizing as possible for them and tries to keep them out of trouble.

Death Of A Midnight Snack (urban fantasy crime fictions with noobish witches and a terrible vampire, set in an alternate (because magic) modern-day southern Germany)
Jaime Peterson and Augustus von Langenstein are both working for a kind of magical police (technically the organisation is different from a proper police force and it's all rather more haphazard but you get the idea), usually out in the field, doing patrols and such things. It usually boils down to handing out fines for improper storage of magical equipment - read as: some little old lady from the local coven left her enchanted broom on the sidewalk for anyone to grab and wreak havoc with and that's kind of illegal - but occasionally, you get rogue magical duels, spells used for illegal purposes, naturally occurring Undead, and sometimes unnaturally occurring Undead. That last one is pretty dang serious. Gus has been doing that job for the last almost-fifty years; Jaime's been at it for one year of actual work and one year of preparatory training.
(That one-year training period should tell you a lot about the general competence of that wild bunch as a whole; they actually don't have standardized training at all. It's all a bit of a mess.)

Kirbygal

O h b o y that's like all my ocs minus a few XD So I'll put them in a spoiler ^^

Oof for self convenient sake plz find each of em in my gallery because I don't have the energy to link back to every single oc ;; also I'm on mobile lmao

Archer, Derek, and Friedrich are lawyers ^.^ Friedrich is a prosecutor while Archer (who's his son btw) is for the defense. I haven't decided which side Derek would do tbh ;; Friedrich wanted to be one since he got interested in law and wanted to persue it, and he becomes probably the first person in his family/ ancestry to not join the military. Archer was inspired by his dad and wanted to be like him xD Derek really likes to debate and is pretty good at it.
Dallas, Chris, and Bentley are all cooks/chefs ^^ Dallas and Chris would work in the same diner, though Dallas does more of the food while Chris is a great pastry chef who wishes to have his own bakery someday. Dallas seems to have a natural talent for cooking and most of the things he makes end up being really good. Bentley had gone to culinary school and he specializes in Italian cuisine since he is Italian and is used to the food xD
Aliester, Caviar, Joutarou, and Matilda are all waiters/waitresses~ Matilda works in a diner while the other three work in a fancy restaurant. (Aliester is Matilda's son btw xD I guess he ended up in the service industry just like her lol) Caviar tho works some nights in an exclusive club as an entertainer and he's a crossdresser xD
Casanova and Helix are astronomers ☆ I guess they were just both really interested in the subject enough for it to become their career xD
Sebastian is a wall street stock trader and is very good at his job. He was really good at trading on his personal accounts and his coworkers at the time suggested he should do the real thing in NYC. Seb used to be a bank teller so he's already got a good financial background xD (he is Casa's dad btw lol)
Lysande is one of the current co-owner of an Islandic based construction and archetectual company. It is family owned so he take sober his dad's position. He mostly deals with the construction half but for work for both.
Felix is some sort of neurologist~ studying how the nervous system and how the brain works had always fascinated him.
Seraphina is a model ♡ She models clothing and mostly did so for magazines. She did a few for tv commercials though later on~
Crystal is a fashion designer ☆ She likes creating women's clothing, mostly ones that suit her tastes, which is more showy and fancy, sexy looking clothes
Jacob is a pediatrician ♡ He loves kids and likes taking care of them ^^ He's had some experience taking care of his younger brother Dallas
This is prob the only time I'll link back to ocs but Aliesters birth dad is a mechanic and he fixes up cars and motorcycles, maybe trucks. He owns a motorcycle of his own too. Aliester second dad is a middle school teacher, I dunno for which subject yet xD He owns a car
Kyouya, Florian, Mikail, and Vincent are all singers; the first three are an idol group and they sing mainly pop songs, Vincent is a well known opera singer and has been singing for over 30 years ^^
Lucien and Sigmund are talent managers; Lucien is the manager for the idol group, and Sigmund is Vincent's manager xD Lucien also likes to sing opera and is a huge fan of Vincent but things didn't end up how he wishes so he ended up focusing career path towards a manager. Sigmund only sings in karaoke lol
Vax is a writer, mostly for fiction works. He has published one book so far; most of his other writings are just personal things but he is just really good at what he does
Dmitrios's preferred career would be a sculptor, since he loves creating things out of stone. More practically though he is a fisherman, or was, for a period of time.
Yuros and Lloyd are detectives; Yuros is the lead detective for his section/ department, he specializes in missing person cases. Lloyd is his android partner. Lloyd also has a programmes background in regular police work as well
Leroy was supposed to be doing the same thing as Lloyd but ended up being taken in by a politician and becoming his right hand .. "man" lol. Now he does work for him, but Leroy's other purpose is to look for someone who went missing that the politician wants back. Though being in such a environment for a while has crafted Leroy to a pretty manipulative and cunning being, and he seems to have secret wishes of taking over the politician's position someday... :o
Skye helps out in a bar sometimes; she knows the owner and is friends with him, and the owner let's her stay in a small apartment as long as she helps out
Proton is a Pokemon villain lol; he favors electric type Pokemon over all types and wants to rid the world of the other types, leaving electric types to reign :O
August and his dad Shio are Pokemon professors~ August is his dad's assistant until he is ready to take over the lab
Juleon (protons dad) is the CEO of a power plant near one of the major cities of their region. He's always like electric types and is glad to work with and among them. He pretty much lives in the plant now though; he doesn't go back home much, if at all.
Jonathan is a butler/bodyguard for Chrysler. He always has to make sure Chrysler doesn't do something stupid lmao :P
Nitrous is a racecar driver ^^ He loves the fast speed and the thrill it gives. He also drag races on the sides for fun and so far he's been unbeatable~

HowlingCat

I'm going to drop three of my characters because this is all I can muster >.> Hope this makes sense. Knowing me, I might pop back and fix the wording of this though you your arse I will be back to drop more jobs :V

Adrian works as a music professor. He started working at University of Seikatsu a year ago as a part-time faculty member but ended up as a full time one after he got his master's not too long after. He mostly tends to work during the weekdays as well as doing research and administrative/other tasks on Thursday and/or Friday. Saturday and Sunday are only real off days besides holidays and the weird vacations time Japan has. He teaches three courses (Fundamentals of Music Theory/Music Composition (1+2)/Senior Production) and does some use some of the extra time he has during those days to work with students in regards to their music. I still need to sit down and flesh it out more at least in terms of schedule since oh boy that's not going to be fun to deal with >.>

Lewis works as a Host of a Host Club and a Union Member. The former is a bit of a no brainer since the male has nice (tm) charisma..and attract. Attract is always userful. He ended up becoming a Union Member because it gave him a bit more freedom when it came to exploring Union protected areas and the pay is absolutely great :p

Ronin is a amusing one as he's a assassin and bounty hunter. On one hand, he helps apprehend criminals for the Union (despite not really wishing to join them). However, on the other end, he does kill Pokemon that the Union would appreciate he didn't kill. He has a strange moral compass lmao

Ledokol

I'm hesitating to put my bunch of military androids here because, though technically they have a job because they do receive some monetary 'salary' in return for their service, the duty they serve is pretty much the sole reason for their entire existence. Thus I'll only focus on those who have professions that they have more 'choices' over it, i.e their life isn't going to be exterminated if they don't do that job or something.

Shura -- He was raised to become an agent working for the USSR's KGB except that organization was disbanded when he was 14. Instead, his father sent him to the military career path. Due to some circumstance, he found out an acquaintance he knew from his childhood years is now posing a danger to the country so he aimed to work in a special branch within the Russian Army - overseeing security and operations of the state warfare androids program. Basic explanation about his job is to check the security measure of the military bases where androids are deployed to make sure that illegal arms dealing mafia won't get their hands on the androids ever. Sometimes he also checks and helps engineers develop better protection to the androids, using his computer hacking skill to hack into the inorganic brain (the main computer that control the androids inside their humanoid body) to see if the counter measure programmed into the android's inorganic brain can prevent them from being seized control through hacking. And lastly, he's the person who knows security passwords that can manually seize control over an android for every type of androids serving in the Russian Arms Force.
Dragan -- Cabinet maker / carpenter in a small town in a valley in central Bosnia and Hercegovina. This profession he inherits from his father, who lost a leg from landmine during the Bosnian War in the 90's. Maybe he can probably move out of his hometown and search for job in other city but he prefers to stay close to his aging parents and becomes their family's main breadwinner.
Rodion -- He used to serve in the Russian paratroopers unit but was discharged from a severe injury from combat in the Second Chechnya War. After a few years, he was called back by the military to become a test subject in an experiment program that aids the further development of the warfare androids (yep, he's in the same plot as Shura). For that he's given an automaton arm and taking part in being monitored by engineers regularly and even conducts a 'chat' with androids for psychological and data gathering experiments.
Zinaida -- She does several jobs during her entire life time - commerce, fishery, miner, logger...but at this period her main profession is related to building nuclear powered submarines for the Russian Navy. In the AU she shares the plot with Shura and Rodion, she also serves as 'mother figure' for the submarine androids constructed in the shipyard she oversees.
Vova -- My token mafia. xD Well, he's the guy who employs the acquaintance that drove Shura to get heavily involved with the androids' security field. Although right now he's not the 'official' head of their Seriye Krylya syndicate yet, he's pretty much taking over the duty to oversee and mastermind their organization's operations regarding illegal arms dealing.
Krunoslav -- His main profession is a curator in museum. With his degree in art history, sometime he also goes out of town to assist with archaeological excavations to identify artifacts that have been dug out. As a part time, he also write articles about art history for archaeology-related publications.
Rūta -- Freelance writer as main profession, doubles as housewife when she has more free time from writing task, if not the household chores are divided with Krunoslav. She mainly writes for philosophy-related publications.
Morena -- Slavic goddess of winter and death who nowadays is just an office lady. :'D Though she's still mainly dealing with mountain of data and paperwork regarding the population in Slavic countries. She is the person who decides when autumn and winter will roll in as well, by killing her husband Jarilo so warm weather will cease. She can't slack off on this duty because she once did and her desk was flooded with complaint from angry ski resort owners. x'D
Jarilo -- Like his wife Morena, he's also ancient-Slavic-deity-turned-office-worker. His specialized field is the agriculture area and he's also responsible for bringing warm weather and spring to Slavic countries. Still, with how advanced technology is nowadays, sometimes he feels he doesn't need to lend much help to humans concerning the vegetation unless some really bad drought hits the regions under his responsibility.

Lɪᴄɪɴɪᴜs LittleBiit

Little bit has two jobs. Her first one- during the day (and sometimes night) she works as a waitress and sometimes night guard at an 18+ restaurant. At night when she isn't taking a night shift. She is a hitman/ hitwoman + black market dealer (Organ dealer)

Seiden

Al right :D

• Alastyn stopped working due to his depression, but right before this, he was a fisher, sailing the sea with his brother and father to catch some tasty fishes that they would sell on the market.
• Amadeus is doing some various small jobs, especially as a temporary worker or to replace employees that go sick or on vacations. He has no real qualification then he's mostly doing uninteresting jobs, such as office cleaner, cashier, warehouse worker, outside trash picker... Yeah I'm not offering this guy a great life....
• Arthur is the daddy's son. His father is the head of a great international company that produces a good turnover. Trying to responsabilise his younger son, he named him at the head of the French branch of the company. Arthur is now the local boss, sorta.
• Cassandre is an historian, even though most of her peers would not see that as a real nor useful job. She just... tries to bring back some forgotten knowledge about the past of the earthling species.
• Not sure if that counts as a job, but Cherinee is the leader of a whole tribe, in some prehistoric era. That's not a job, but that's a work for sure! He has to supervise a whole bunch of immature and careless lions, to organise hunts and food storage, to take care of the diplomatic relations with the other tribes, all of this...
• Eden kinda failed his life. At first, he wasn't sure whether he wanted to be a scientist or an artist. He tried to major in biology at the university but failed at it. He then majored in multimedia (webdesign, advertising, etc), got his diploma, but failed to find an interesting job, as he's actually not as much of an artist as he hoped to be. He went jobless for a few months, and is now working as a webmaster in Arthur's company. He does not enjoy his job much but he does not hate it at least. The company is nice and treats its employees well (well, being the boss' boyfriend, he sure is treated well).
• Is "trying to conquer the world" a job? No? Well, let's pretend Esteban just leads a scientific organisation, then.
• These guys are gym leaders. I'm sure this would count as a real job in the Pokemon universe! In addition to their gym job, Adam protects and restores some ancient structures (temples and such), Ciel supervises some town infrastructures, Leonard is a fisher and sells fishes on the market (yup, magikarps are delicious), Narcisse owns an theme park, and Steve is a miner.
• Hemiel and Yezel are in charge of the whole humanity (along with other colleagues of course), and damn't if that ain't a job ?
• Hippolyte is a biologist, specialised in genetics but also working on some other useful things.
• Hyrokin is a bard. He sings and dances to get money. Okay, he's kind of a beggar. But still.
• Kyrie works at the communication hub of some University Institute of Technology. Like, she takes care of updating the website, doing some information flyers, responding to mails and phone calls, organising some events...
• Méristème is a biologist too, specialised in botanics, but also working one some other things as he belongs to Hippolyte's laboratory.
• Mildred is a Team Rocket grunt. She's paid for it, then it's a job. Organised crime and thievery is a job.
• Murtagh is a shaman. He's supposed to communicate with the ancestors and deities, and cure the sicks. He actually has no communication nor healing skills at all but he manages to convince the others that he does.
• Daniel is your typical Pokémon professor, helping kids to start their adventure, and researching things.
• Vedel is a policeman. He dreamed of great crime fighting, murder scenes, and saving the world, but he actually gives the fines for speeding or picks up some wasted alcoholic that passed out on the sidewalk.
• Wes will do anything you want him to do, as long as you pay well. Steal something, impress someone, murder someone? Just give the money and it's like it was done already.

Damn why do I have so many characters?

elegy

As I've got a lot of characters who've had multiple jobs, I'll put my post under a spoiler box.

Auric was a lumberjack, hunter and handyman before the war where he became a soldier and a general. After the war he resumed his old jobs, though isn't paid for taking care of his house now.
Seolfor was a scribe before the war where he became a tactician. Post war he became a royal advisor for a century or so. He started writing for newspapers once his royal employment came to an end.
Faron was a knight, and captain of the guard very briefly. After his king and kingdom had fallen, he became a stay at home dad.
Adrian has been a butler for a few hundred years. While he doesn't need the money now, he keeps his position as he's a workaholic, and loves his job.
Eldin became a thief at a young age out of necessity, then became a squire to get out of trouble from stealing from the knights. Once the kingdom was destroyed he ended up a sex worker to try and keep himself afloat. He currently is unemployed.

I have a few other OCs with jobs, but they don't have bios. (Jobs include: alchemist and general troublemaker, monster hunter, and doctor.)
Actually the only characters I have that have never had any jobs are children? I never realized that until now.

Tricksy Thornheartless

He doesn't really do it as what most people see as a job, but Tricksy is an investigator who helps out the police normally. Instead of getting payed with money though, he's generally paid in things like clothes, food and permission to stay in places temporarily.

I've got other OCs who have jobs, but I figured an ex-assassin would have been a little too cliché.

(Not that cliché is bad of course.)

Simon Parsley CrispinAsheYA

Simon is an electrician apprentice! He fininishes his apprenticeship in January 2023 =)