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[bjornwilde]

 What was your character's first job? What is/was their favorite job?

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[damncompass]

Joshua's first job was as a TA in grad school. He plowed through college with scholarships and didn't really do much other than study, so he didn't need much spending money. He'd probably say that his current job at the Warehouse is the best one.

Helena's only true job has been the Warehouse and she loves it.

Valentine has a weekly column had it since before she had a monthly period that pays her, but she wouldn't call it a job per se. Otherwise, she has school.

Fantine worked in a factory. She doesn't really want to talk about that.

Mark had a job when he first got to New York working in a deli. He quit when Roger started getting bad.

... eeesh. Most of mine haven't really had that many jobs.

Me, on the other hand, I've had a million jobs.

[last_kallig]

Ibani's first job was as a slave on Ilum, gathering crystals in the mines there. She actually LIKED gathering crystals, because they 'sang' to her and she found them fascinating. It was everything else that was awful. *sad face* Her only other 'job' thus far is as a Sith Acolyte. Which, uh, has it's ups and downs. It is, at least, preferable to being a slave?

Annabelle went into the family business of working in the circus almost as soon as she could walk. I'm guessing she worked with her mother's acrobatics act first, as that's less dangerous than some of the others. Her favorite 'job' was being a hero with the AEon Society, which she held from age 14 up until her death. Now she's more of a freelance hero, but it's still fun!

I suspect it was a long time before Kreyu had anything we would describe as a job in the modern sense of the word, possibly she was a healer in some small village somewhere. Her favorite job is teaching humans how to use her world's magic, and she still does this from time to time.

[ashen_key]

Natasha's first job was...well, if you define job as in 'gets paid, occasionally', then first job was being a private in the Red Army at the age of fifteen. Before that, she was a vigilante/independent member of the Soviet Resistance with a sideline of part-time mascot because the soldiers were willing to share their food and shelter.

She doesn't really have a favourite job, more aspects of various jobs she's enjoyed. But anything to do with linguistics certainly ranks up there, as does conning people.

[alas_a_llama]

Yugo's first job was as a florist. He kept working at the same flower shop until the Sabbat ritual. Floristry was and is his main passion in life, although he now also holds down 'work' (not that he gets paid for it) as a Kamen Rider, which - roughly equates to 'highly specialised superhero sheriff on a motorbike'.

Sherral's first 'job', which he probably only got paid a pittance for, was messenger and maintenance duty on the wall around his hometown. Mostly running back and forth around the wall to deliver messages to people, occasionally holding toolboxes while engineers mended the Paling generator. He started that when he was about eleven, and continued until he left to join the Archadian Army when he was fourteen. He much prefers the latter of the two.

Wan's first job was as a petty thief. That's not really employment, per se.

[sdelmonte]

Knox: He was in the last generation of copy boys at a newspaper in his high school years. His current job as a columnist is his favorite, for as long as it lasts.

Kirk: His first posting was on the Republic as a trainee lieutenant under the late Captain Garrovick. His best destiny, of course, is starship captain.

Howard Stark started at his grandfather's firm immediately after graduation. For all intents and purposes, he's still doing the same job and still loves it. Even if his portfolio includes CEO.

Gibbs joined the navy as a lad. The only job he's ever liked is pirate. And that's hardly a job.

Cy hasn't ever had a paying job.

Charlie's first job in high school was as a delivery boy in a local deli. The job he liked most was as a crusading reporter, but he found ways to burn his bridges with all his employers and thus the industry.

[1nv1nc1ble]

Mark has had two jobs. The first was a burger jockey for Burger Mart. Shortly after getting his powers, he quit that job because his boss was a Grade A dick.

Mark's second job is superhero. He's having the time of his life on that one, being beaten into a coma notwithstanding. Given the choice of the two, he'd rather not be working the Fryalator.

[varadia]

X's first job was as an assassin!

I think she likes Little League coach best, though. Or coach/instructor of any kind, really.

[kd7sov]

Umm... N/A?

Felix is from a Vaguely Medieval Fantasy setting, and was kidnapped to save the world at age 15, so he's never really experienced employment. Fluttershy may or may not have ever had a job, it's really not clear, though she does appear to have some level of available money. Kain's been literally working toward the same goal since he was five years old.

[camwyn]

Ellen's first job was something assigned at the age of ten, because that's just how Vault 101 rolls. They never say canonically what it was, so I sort of assumed that all the kids were set to various apprenticey tasks starting with sweeping floors and passing parts and supplies to the engineers, and got more responsible duties as they got older/showed aptitude, but nothing that would affect or interfere with schooling until they took their GOAT exam at age sixteen. Obviously things have changed a bit; she's fond of her current job, although she did make a nice pile of bottlecaps running raiders and other criminal types down and turning their weapons in for bounties with the Regulators.

Gordon's first job was cashier at a local pharmacy. It wasn't a job that had anything to do with college or future careers, but the pharmacy was hiring. He misses just being a scientist.

Mordin's first job was probably as some kind of junior research assistant and probably acquired around age six or seven. Salarians have very fast metabolisms and very short lifespans; his nephew canonically achieves university tenure at age fifteen. He seems to have been very fond of his time working on the altered genophage for the Special Tasks Group, although he's since changed his mind about the necessity for the disease.

Varric's first job was probably being paid to be some 'respectable dwarven gentleman's' street informant. I have a feeling his mother pulled him aside when she found out and told him "You know those men you were talking to? They're nice men, but they're not nice men." (This is roughly how my grandfather referred to the gentlemen in the suits who were so popular in their neighborhood; I figure it applies to the Carta as much as to real-world Legitimate Businessmen.)

BLU Medic's first job was also at a pharmacy, although unlike Gordon he was hired to work alongside the actual compounding pharmacist in the back, and he was very very good at it.

Edward Kenway's first job was being paid to look after the family's sheep instead of just looking after the family's sheep. He is not and has not ever been a farm person. He is much much happier now that he is a pirate.

Santo's been a wrestler for as long as he's been an adult. I really have no clue what he might have done before that.

Shephard's first job (other than household stuff and helping Momma with the beehives) was working at the sporting goods store in town, where most of his paycheck went straight into family finances and the remainder was saved up to buy a motorcycle. His houndeye Mrs. Wilson is named after the woman who ran the store.

And Stacker... I don't know what he might have done to earn pocket money while he was at school, but since he was put into the Duke of York's Royal Military School pretty young, he went straight into the RAF afterwards, so that probably counts. He very much liked Jaeger piloting right up until Onibaba.

[bbq_platypus]

Jim's been working for Mel Brooks all his life, and he's a company man 'til the day he dies.

Leela's society...kinda doesn't have jobs in the modern sense of the term. She hunted, she gathered, and she fought. It is what a warrior and hunter of the Sevateem is expected to do. Right now she wouldn't want to be doing anything else but traveling with the Doctor.

Kane...BWAH-HAHAHAHAHA. Yeah, not really applicable. Though he started out as a farmer if you believe some people.

Caius, after doing miscellaneous unpaid or meagerly paid menial work for family or friends of the family, applied to join the Legion (as his father had) at the age of 16. But the Empire saw other uses for him and steered him into training for the Blades. He's been a spy ever since.

The only job Garyn has ever held down was his position in the Fighters' Guild. He doesn't really know how to do anything else at this point, though he was often sent to fetch and gather herbs and mushrooms as a child.

As a child and young adolescent, Marge earned some money mowing lawns and shoveling driveways. She also did some babysitting, but she preferred working outside. She's a lot happier being a cop, though.

And futurewise, while his early life may go more or less unexplored by Hugo, it would surprise me very much if the first money Thenardier ever made came through any means other than theft.

[gavin62truck]

The first thing Tommy ever got paid for was probably shoveling snow off sidewalks and driveways when he was a kid. Other odd jobs most likely would've included bagging/stocking at a grocery store, doing menial tasks at a mechanic's, moving furniture-- crappy manual labor gigs just to get a paycheck. Favorite job is obviously firefighting.

[minkhollow]

Cata and Sam both had official jobs through the Assassins' Guild. Sam's mother, before the Guild scooped him up, was so destitute that you could possibly argue his first 'job' was panhandling for extra money/food, but he doesn't count that.

Claudia fixed people's computers in a freelance capacity up until she started trying to rescue Joshua (her parents left behind a decent-sized trust fund, so this was a viable option). She likes the Warehouse a lot more.

Apollo is a god; your argument is invalid.

Imp probably got pulled along to some of his father's stone-circle-building stuff (druids and all that). He never liked it.

Regulus is a student, and also filthy rich. Your argument would be invalid if not for the fact that he'd get bored. Trying to break the Dark Lord cycle might be enough to keep him busy, if he doesn't end up with some kind of Ministry job anyway.

Red doesn't have a job, or any reason to have one. So after a fashion, her first job is waitress, courtesy of the curse.

Woolly worked for his parents' financial business for a while. He wasn't well-suited to it, and is still very glad that woman with the sword showed up and opened a gateway to something more fulfilling.

[genarti]

Trowa was a child soldier. He has also been a mechanic, medic's assistant, Gundam pilot (guerilla soldier/kamikaze strike pilot/giant robot pilot/etc), soldier ostensibly working for the opposite side, and circus clown. Several of these were simultaneous.

He likes being in the circus best. By far.

Thor, on the other hand, is only and has ever only been a prince. This is a pretty broad title, but he's never had a workaday job. Maybe if he'd lived on Earth longer while depowered he'd've had to, but he didn't. He likes being a prince! He will also like being a superhero on Earth when that job rolls around, but being Odinson will always come first. (Even if the definition of what that means in his life might shift.)

River... maybe had some kind of part-time job as a kid, the kind of thing a rich kid gets for a little more pocket money or to Teach Them Responsibility rather than the kind of thing that really contributes to the family income, but I'm not sure what. She didn't have a lot of spare time for it anyway, what with all her various hobbies. About her only actual job has been being... uh... mascot/sharpshooter/brawler/back-up pilot/psychic/kid-of-all-trades for a crew of space smugglers. She likes it fine!

Regan also had the same kind of part-time job stuff, I'm sure, and then paid internships in college. (Or unpaid. I don't know what's normal in FFverse.) After college, she worked her way up the food chain in the marketing department of some company for a while. I think part of her misses the straightforwardness of that, but she wouldn't really trade.

Enjolras has probably never worked a job in the standard work-for-pay sense. Possibly before university he worked some for his father, whose profession I have not yet decided upon, but it wasn't so much for a wage as "Okay, this is my business so someday it'll be yours; ergo, you should learn it." He needs to acquire one at Milliways; that he hasn't is his mun's fault, not his for not looking.

Whatever it is, he will perform it dutifully and responsibly, and absolutely zero of his identity will be tied up in it.

Clare has only ever had one job. She doesn't like it much, but it beats the alternatives.

[bjornwilde]

Jess: Her first on the job training was assassination but she balked her first hit. I think her favorite job was being a private detective but she also enjoys the spy biz somewhat. I seem to remember her working with a magazine in her first series but I'm not sure to what capacity.

Hank: I think his first job was likely a newspaper delivery boy or just the odd jobs little boys do; raking leaves, shoveling walkways, and the like. He loves his current job. Funny how your own lab and a government budget for your projects can do that.

Anton: I'm having trouble seeing Anton younger than college or high school to be honest. I'd say his first job was something computer related, perhaps IT or database development. He still misses it terribly.

Brimstone was a slave and then a revolutionary. I don't want to say more to avoid spoilers. His favorite job was being a mentor.

Quinlan was being groomed to be a Kiffar guardian, which are police, judge and jury for his people, but then he proved strong in the Force so became a Jedi. I think he likes being a smuggler more.

Mulan has always been a warrior but she was also a soldier at one point. She prefers being a warrior as she doesn't have to follow foolish or selfish orders.

Thalia's was collecting recycling to raise money for food since her mom likely drank most of the budget. She likes being a Hunter much more though she misses her friends.

Val has always been trained and groomed to be the heir to Latveria, she has held no other jobs; though I did have a head canon OOM where she was tasked with keeping a hydroponics chamber.

Andrea has only ever been a knight of the Order and she wouldn't want it any other way.

[inlovewithwords]

Henry: Hasn't had a job yet.

Eriond: Job? Does being himself count?

Lois: No clue what her first job was. Her favorite, obviously, is being the star investigative journalist for the Daily Planet.

Tavi: His first job was being apprentice shepherd to his uncle Bernard. I think probably his favorite job was being Magnus' research assistant at an archaeological dig for six months--defining favorite as 'if lacking in all forms of responsibility, duty, necessity, or reason A Thing Must Be Done this is what he'd choose.'