What is the Golarion equivalent to your modern job?


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Alchemist (Blazing Torchbearer)

I design, shoot, and sell fireworks displays.

My life is a blast.

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Hmm, perhaps a Pathfinder Chronicler with an inordinate amount of influence?

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Pharasma.

Orrrrr...a psychopomp. I guess I'm a psychopomp now.

Given my role in the organized play program, I'll at least pretend that I would be a yamaraj.


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Private tutor to the wizarding elite.

Because I'm literally a private tutor. And if I could legit study magic, I'd be all over that.


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Profession: god of gods

(Game designer)

Scarab Sages

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Hmmm. Website Programmer.

Realistically: Scribe.

Translated into fantasy system: Wizard, possibly Illusionist.


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Expert with 2 ranks in Linguistics and at least one rank in each of these: Profession (teacher), Knowledge (history), Knowledge (planes), and Knowledge (religion).

(i.e, Comparative Literature PhD student)


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In real life I'm a high school custodian, martial artist, songwriter/musician, and self-published author.

Profession: Laborer

Class: Some mix of bard/monk/expert/brawler

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Code Enforcement Investigator in some mid-sized Taldan city.


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Probably an archeologist bard: I'm a mathematician and classicist by education, and something along the line of a programmer (very simple VB work) and administrator by position. Regardless, I get no performance and only occasional luck.

Also, awesome topic.


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I push carts for a grocery store. I'm not sure my job has a Golarion equivalent.

I'm also a freelance writer, so Bard I guess.

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Beast Brewer Alchemist? (Geneticist)

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Bartender. That was easy.


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To be honest I don't see much hope in either of my chosen professions.

1) Construction Foreman, it's a tough job, but honest pay and whipping people is gotta be good for the glamour muscles. Then you get a job building a tower for a crazy wizard, suddenly your workers disappear, you go over bid, etc, a real headache to be honest. Then, just when you're done and celebrating a job well done with the other foremen the crazy f!*%ing a~&%$*~ wizard locks you in a closet until you're forced to eat the other guys, thus damning yourself to an eternity as a ghoul locked in a closet until some dumb f*%* first level Rogue picks the lock. At least I would die knowing I gave the Fighter ghoul fever.

2) Chef, same as above scenario except by now the crazy wizard is a Lich and I was locked in the kitchen and became a Mohrg.

You know what f&#! all that, I'd wanna be a Druid.


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A follower of Cayden Cailean working at a Desnan orphanage.

I work at a youth shelter with a pretty strong butterfly theme.

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As a web developer for a university...

A Rogue with lots of ranks in:

Bluff
Craft: Website
Diplomacy
Knowledge: Engineering
Knowledge: Arcane
Knowledge: Planes
Profession: Artist
Profession: Barrister
Sense Motive
Sleight of Hand
Spellcraft
Use Magic Device


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The Silver Surfer.

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Hmmm...

Server Admin seems like I'd have to be some sort of Wizard. Probably conjurer or transmuter, as I change and/or make things to do what people want. Honestly, some sort of golemancer would probably be close, but it implies that I make things.

Is Technic League member a legitimate choice? :D

If not, probably some sort of assistant at the Arcanamirium (I work at a University). I'd be game for that!


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3D Animation = Illusionist maybe?


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Dentist = Cleric/Alchemist (?)


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I'm the mid-level expert with maxed knoledges you hire when you want to increase (or retrain) skill points. Also avaliable to aid another on knowledge checks or to make the check for the party.


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Currently? Ex-thief rogue, lotta ranks in Profession Bartender and Disable Device. Learned my lesson, though, going straight.
In about three months? Rogue 3/Druid 1, starting up at SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry. Probably with a wolverine companion (my focus program is predatory/scavenging relationships in boreal trophic levels)

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John Compton wrote:

Hmm, perhaps a Pathfinder Chronicler with an inordinate amount of influence?

James Jacobs wrote:
Pharasma.

Orrrrr...a psychopomp. I guess I'm a psychopomp now.

Now I'm wondering about YOUR real job.


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I know the OP said not to put profession: slave, but I do work for Walmart...

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I'd guess that IT translates to logician. With arcane powers, so wizard-classed most likely.


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I'd say Divination Wizard 5 / Cleric of Abadar 3: currently employed by the Church of Sarenrae in Taldor.

(IRL I'm an Actuarial Analyst, building/maintaining predictive models for financial forecasts used in health insurance in the US).

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Well I would be a GNOME (lol) merchant (for my sales) or clockwork engineer.


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dbass wrote:
Dentist = Cleric/Alchemist (?)

I'm pretty sure that you can do Profession (Dentist).

As for myself, I'm an accidental DBA and DevOps Manager for a software development team, so I'd be... uh...

Profession (Scroll Analyst) or something? It doesn't really translate very well.

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Software Performance Tester here.

All you guys that are making golems? I'd be the guy that tests them before you put them on the market.

It is good for you, because if it goes berserk and hurts people you can blame me.

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I am a stable boy who collects the fees for stabling horses. During the slow times of my job I work on freelance scribe work or on assignments given to me at scribe school.

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Multi-class: Witch / Cleric of Abadar.


Oof, this is tough.

A bard (which is a joke in itself, if you knew me in real life) with Scribe Scroll and a focus on Illusion and Enchantment/Compulsion spells, maybe?

I run the creative side of a Video production team for an agency that serves non-profits to help them do better at raising money. A lot of writing and pitching video concepts.


Evangelist of Brigh!

After all, I am an engineer.


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Tacticslion wrote:

What a great idea this thread is!

Hm...

I'd likely be an Erastilian layperson (though perhaps an oracle, or bard) with minor formal training in numerous different fields. I'd currently be working at Prifession (homemaker), which, no matter how high you roll seems not to give you money, with an occasional Profession (tutor) roll thrown in.

I'd spend as much time as possible at the local town center/forum/library, but away from people, until I couldn't resist barging in (or the local entertainment priced unsuitable for my boys). I'd also volunteer at the temple, with my wife, taking care of children twice a month.

EDIT: tutoring is like being a professional Aid Another guy. You make Aid Another checks until your studentevels up and can do it themselves!

Addendum. I'd also be an archavist bard. I know this, because I like to perform for people, but I can easily monologue long enough to fascinate people... and put them to sleep.

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Most of my skills would have just a few ranks (+class skill bonus) and I rely on lots and lots of masterwork tools, equipment, & alchemical items!

Day job I'm a Warrior/Expert with ranks in Climb, Heal, Knowledge (alchemy, engineering), & Profession (clerk). Security contractor in industrial setting: Confinced space/high angle rescue; Basic first aid/CPR/AED; Hazmat, fire protection/ Machine Rescue; paperwork galore

Outisde of work my addition skills are Craft (cartography, painting), Knowledge (geography, local), & Survival. Chalkboard art, photography, illustration; map making, orienteering, navigation (esp cities); basic woodcraft, weather prediction (stormchaser).

--Vrocksmith


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Being disabled with chronic pain and clinical depression, I'd probably be a sad, dirty beggar. Ideally, I'd be an archivist.


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DungeonmasterCal wrote:
Being disabled with chronic pain and clinical depression, I'd probably be a sad, dirty beggar. Ideally, I'd be an archivist.

You used to be an adventurer like me, but then you took an arrow in the knee...

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Accountant. It's amazing how universal that is.

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Soldier = Soldier either full plate on a warhorse or slinging fireballs evoker/admixture style

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Student.

Community Manager

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I'm thinkin'...alchemist? Lots of ranks in Craft, for sure. Kitchen Witch.


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I talk to dirt and rocks. I purify water. I wildshape from an office guy into a well-adapted field scientist.

I'm a druid.

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Craft: glass or profession bottle blower


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I am a Geography Teacher/ Boy Scout leader so I think I would be a member of the Pathfinder Society. Probably some sort of Ranger/Loremaster.


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Aspiring diviner providing arcane scrivening services to a cathedral of Bharnarol.

-translates to-

MLIS working as a schematics digitization volunteer at the Exploratorium.


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As a physics student, I get to claim apprentice arcanist.

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Scribe, fortuneteller and mind-reader.

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I work in mail order for retail. I ship stuff for customer and take complaints and calls from all departments


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I'm not sure, is there a profession that keeps magical energy residue from leaking out from wizard towers and affecting the surrounding environment?


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Squeakmaan wrote:
I'm not sure, is there a profession that keeps magical energy residue from leaking out from wizard towers and affecting the surrounding environment?

abjurer?


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A person who studies history from an anthropological perspective.

Does that make me a pathfinder?

(granted I am not well versed in Golarion)

As for my actual current employment: A prestigious academy needs pot cleaners for its kitchen, no?

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