DE: Professional reorientation

[yakalskovich]

 Your character needs a new job in the modern world. How do they go about it, and what do they end up as?

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[sdelmonte]

Most of my characters are in the present day or close to it, and their skills are still their skills. Though I need to figure what Cyborg will do with his degree.

Poirot would still be a detective. He would accept the new methods of forensics, and still use his brain the same way as ever. (But please, Hollywood, don't try to make a present day Poirot. I know it's worked twice for Sherlock Holmes, but I think Poirot belongs in the past. The later novels with him in the 50s and 60s made him into a bit of a figure of ridicule.) The hard part would be trying to start over. I can't see him taking a PI license exam.

And Kirk...I don't know what he could do in the present. He knows too much about things that don't exist yet and too little about our time. Maybe he'd try to find work as a horse trainer?

[venerable_ibis]

Oh god, most of mine are so lost.

In the process of trying to convince people that he really is the ghost of Henry V of England, Harry Monmouth catches the eye of the media world and carves out a niche for himself as a Personality. The debate about his authenticity rages on, which sometimes infuriates him...but he's not going to say no to the well-paid television appearances. (He and Tom Hiddleston are interviewed together, finally, and so many gifsets flood the world.)

Feuilly may not know how modern paperwork goes, but he damned well knows how to walk the pavement asking in every single business he passes if they need anyone, and eventually he finds some restaurant or house-painting crew or such that doesn't mind paying a weird undocumented French guy under the table. If we can handwave the whole citizenship and tax paperwork thing, la la la, he's able to bust his ass and scrape together the required degrees and certification for working in adult education for immigrants.

Bossuet uses his Milliways skillset to get restaurant work, while charming his way into various couchsurfing situations until he and Joly find their feet.

Ursula is from the not-so-distant past, so this isn't such a stretch; she putters along picking up cash as a street artist while putting together retail and restaurant jobs to pay for rent and art supplies.

The Chief would never leave Acme, but she does make a habit of keeping her CV up to date; she shouldn't find it too difficult to find work in the fastpaced world of international wacky crime stopping.

Gredya disapproves of jobs in the modern world.

[sunbaked_baker]

I... am having difficulty imagining Rae as anything other than a baker (in her public life). At least, anything other than a baker where she would also be happy. Any suggestions?

[bjornwilde]

I keep trying to picture Rollo in a modern world and failing. Like he might end up as a laborer or an enforcer? Then again he's smarter than one might think, maybe he'd end up working his was into mergers and acquisitions?

Ahsoka, Sabine, Izana, and Amelia are from either a more advanced world than ours or the future, so they're out.

Sam already is in an analogous present to ours and has a job.

Selina would like just do what she already does, pickpocketing and stealing from other crooks.

Touji is a student and if he were in a world without magic I don't know what he'd do, tbh. Maybe sales? Or a councilor?

Which leaves Eliot and he'd become a bartender. Although I am tempted to say stage magician as his night job.

[yinyangwizard]

Abe no Seimei would get a job as a security consultant. He does actually know his stuff, and with a couple of Jedi mind tricks he could ace the interview.

YT would be...um, I'm not sure actually. Probably involved in some illegal enterprise. And running it within the next dozen years or so.

[inlovewithwords]

Eriond: What needs-a-job? Pffffft.

Lois: And leave journalism? Neverrrrr. Anyway, she'd stay in journalism, just have to go do something crazy to get a spot at a new newspaper. Freelance is not her style unless someone deliberately shut down the DP and she's freelancing until they can bring it back or something.

Evelyn: I-- hmm. I honestly don't know with her.

R2: Take a vacation in the low-tech before kick-starting all the computing and AI stuff etc.

Anakin: Mechanic, obviously, and pilot. At least to start. Low tech is for wusses. He'd revolutionize the tech by sheer accident while absurdly bored. ...Assuming he didn't try to Jedi it up and probably start more wars than he stopped because let's face it, he's insane.

Tavi: Despite being from incredibly low tech, he thrives very well, in that he immediately enrolls in classes. He'd really love science and mathematics and technology. I don't know how much he could pick up, but he'd learn as much as he could, and find something to make money to put himself through that. If he still has furycrafting, he could do some serious good and make money by playing medic. Also, he enjoys not having an empire to run! ... At least, he enjoys it until he's learned enough about the situation here that he starts getting involved in politics starting at local and then progressively higher levels because Everything Is Terrible And He Wants To Fix It All. So basically "Tavi takes classes until he gets himself into politics and tries to take on the world." Business as usual for him, really.