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Skewbrow:
Several of our friends have at some point expressed unhappiness about their line of work. I thought that it might be a good idea to have a thread dedicated to their work/career related dreams and possibilities. Here's your chance to try your hand as a vocational counselor! Which line of work do you think your favorite QC character would excel in? Which job would be the best match to his/her skill set/education/personality? What would be his/her dream job? Is there a realistic shot to get that dream job? Hilariously impossible and unlikely suggestions are obviously welcome, too, but keep the creepy suggestions to yourselves, please.

Polls? Of course, the plan is to have polls for every character with enough interesting suggestions. I may fumble a poll or two, as this is the first time I try my hand at this, so please be patient :-). The first poll is kinda lame. I apologize for that, but I wasn't sure whether it is possible to add polls to a thread afterwards, so I went with this one to get started. If you feel that an essential option is left out, please let me know! Sven, Dora, Tai and Marigold have been left out of this poll, because they seem to be relatively happy with their current jobs. Dale and Steve were left out, because their current employment status is somewhat unclear.

Enough BS. Let's roll. My thoughts for starters. It's more than a bit on the tl;dr; side, so feel free to skip it.


* Sven. He's successful and mostly happy with what he does, so I really don't see him embarking on another career. Occasionally he feels that his artistic integrity is wearing a gimp mask. May be a little genre experimenting would help? With Deathmole, please!! His reputation would survive even a flop or two while trying something different, wouldn't it?

* Dora. I can totally see Dora ruling with fear the umpteenth generation of sassy baristas 40 years from now. Raising her cane to keep them in line, if necessary. She may want to expand her business at some point, but that road leads either to Starbuckdom or into an "alliance" with HannerMom, so may be rather not? If the tides of fortune ever bring CoD down forcing her to join a chain, then let's go with (dun.. dunn... dunnn....) Waffle House!

* Marten. Tougher. As easy going as our protagonist is, I really don't see him being happy as the assistant librarian until the day he retires. Music is waaay more than a hobby to him, so let's take that as our starting point. He doesn't have a big enough ego to be a star. May be he should put his critical theory education to good use, and start seriously blogging? He might catch the attention of a regional newspaper (with a little bit of luck?), and build from there. Eventually he could end up doing freelance work for Rolling Stone and such. In the worst case scenario he joins the ranks of street musicians of Northampton. Help him out with alternatives, please!! A hilarious alternative would be for him to, if not take over the family business from VV, then at least start giving lessions on Japanese rope binding.

* Hannelore. OCD & customer service?? Come on! Undoubtedly it is good therapy for her, but I don't see it lasting. I was quite impressed with her attention to detail in figuring out what was wrong with her Mom's books. She might make the best auditor/public accountant ever! Wouldn't you love to have someone like her go thru the books of that shady company exploiting the folks in your town (replace that with your least favorite faction of the government, if that's more to your liking). Could she take over Mom's business, when the evil billionaire finally retires/dies? Yeah, right. Donald Duck would have a better chance at the helm of Uncle McSgrooge's empire than our darling Hanners. But remember, she is full of surprises!

* Faye. She has talent for sculpting. Would she need to complete her college degree to really pursue that? I don't know how the art scene works, but I would guess that you can get by without a degree. It is probably a lot tougher to get started without the help of the connections of your college teachers, though? May be that one commissioned Espressosaurus Rex will be her ticket out of service industry? Then again, the Pugnacious Peach is a tough cookie, and could handle many a career. Ranging from a sassy feminist columnist to changing nappies.

* Angus. Well, we just learned what his dream job is :-) He is not unhappy with the strawman gig, but it also sounded like he was just rationalizing it to Faye (and to himself). Stand-up comedy? Needs a lot of luck, but you only live once! Politics? Sounded like his family might expect that from him, but does he really want to become the next actor turned into a governor/president?

* Marigold. She knows computers (incl. AnthroPCs) and programming. I don't see her making megabucks with that skill set, but a secure (trickle of) income is there. In spite of the stuff being outsourced to companies based in Bangalore. If the job as her Dad's webmaster doesn't last, she might not mind Dilbert-like life in a cubicle much. Any reason to try another line of work? Her dream job might be coding and testplaying new versions of WoW, but how to make that come true? Teaching computer stuff as a fall back alternative? How long do you think she would last as a high school teacher?

* Tai. Is it canon that she's in grad school? She just might have what it takes to become an author, but would need more than her fair share of luck to do really well. She also has the career as English lit teacher (college, high school) as a viable alternative to fall back on. Grading stuff like Marigold's slashfic for a few decades might get to her eventually, but it is also (close to) her calling!

* Steve, Cosette, Penelope, Wil. I am mostly clueless here. Steve was doing ok with the Department of KYA, but is that over? Cosette's still in college, so we don't know, if she can get something useful out of that. Penelope and Wil following their current paths of broken dreams makes me a little bit sad, but such is life.

* Raven. Wow! Anything from theoretical physics to water slide test pilot. Most likely to generate more than enough alternatives to start a poll?
* Dale. What are his two other jobs? A bar musician? Newspaper delivery (no time conflict with pizza delivery!)?  A private eye secretly reporting his findings at CoD to Padma?

pwhodges:

--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 04 Feb 2011, 09:57 ---I wasn't sure whether it is possible to add polls to a thread afterwards
--- End quote ---

Just for information: a moderator can do that for you if you ask nicely.

Somnus Eternus:
If Cosette left CoD I somewhat suspect her termination would be involuntary. 

Skewbrow:
Is there a clause in her contract that if she accidentally burns down CoD that is grounds for termination? I guess that would fall under force majeure :-), so we would have 5 unemployed baristas instead of just one.

jwhouk:
Trying to peg a person for a job is a little bit like predicting the weather three months in advance. You can get some general idea of what is going to go on, but you have absolutely no idea what will actually happen.

Oh, and I can say that as someone who did some of his post-grad work as a vocational counselor.

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