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Professions

Postby Ulva » Sat Dec 04, 2010 8:25 pm

I have been racking my brain to come up with potential professions a Human could have that would allow her/him to move somewhere else in the quadrant and keep that profession, but it's not going very well. Please, make suggestions!
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Re: Professions

Postby Brandyjane » Sun Dec 05, 2010 3:02 pm

The main professions I can think of like that are the ones where a lot of people telecommute even in our own time, such as writer (fiction, technical writing, columnist, etc.), editor, accountant, and some kinds of legal work (document review, drafting legal briefs, writing wills and contracts, etc.). The other thing that comes to my mind is that corporate headquarters might transfer someone to another quadrant to represent them in another branch office or to do something like mining or scientific exploration. :dunno:

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Re: Professions

Postby Alelou » Sun Dec 05, 2010 3:34 pm

Or maybe they can avoid paying taxes to the United Earth government if they claim their headquarters is in an office building on Rigel, so they just need someone there to answer the phone and forward the mail...
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Re: Professions

Postby aadarshinah » Sun Dec 05, 2010 4:50 pm

Alelou wrote:Or maybe they can avoid paying taxes to the United Earth government if they claim their headquarters is in an office building on Rigel, so they just need someone there to answer the phone and forward the mail...


oh, that's the greatest idea I've ever heard... some poor guy sitting alone in an office on some backwater planet, licking envelopes.... :lol:

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Re: Professions

Postby Ulva » Sun Dec 05, 2010 9:50 pm

^ :lol:

Late last night (some time around 2 am) I came up with one. Engineer. Infrastructure would still be needed after all. You know, romantic stuff like sewerage and stuff. It's really just calculations. I kind of feel at home with that too since I've studied and done my fair share of landscape engineering. I know what it's like to be an engineer which definitely makes it easier to write.
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Re: Professions

Postby EntAllat » Mon Dec 06, 2010 4:12 am

Wait. Profession or job?

There are lots of professions I can think of that are needed just about anywhere in the world, and that I can thinking of extending to other worlds. Any profession, for example, that a new colony might need: just about any medical professional I can think of would be able to take their skills anywhere in the world. Computer programmers, and otehr technical specialists. Geologists, hydrologists, teachers, farmers, carpenters. I could make a whole list.

If you talking about telecommuting for one specific job however, then I'd say writers, artists, maybe a programmer, perhaps a teacher (via a long distance video feed), etc.

But heck, even nowadays some doctors consult long distance to via video feeds to rural and remote areas. Depending on the futuristic technology (adequate video, audio, shared tools, remote access or remote controls, holographic stand-ins) that list might expand quite a bit.

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Re: Professions

Postby Linda » Mon Dec 20, 2010 3:43 pm

Actually it could be almost any profession! Colony worlds would need every profession. You could just say that colony was short of people in a certain profession as was giving incentives - high pay or tax credits, to attract those people to move to their world.
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Re: Professions

Postby enterprikayak » Mon Dec 20, 2010 10:39 pm

medical/dental/mental anything, including nurses and medics and assistants
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