Spyke

Is the Avatar a job? If so, it would probably have some perks, aside from a perpetual target on your back

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Saving mankind from the Goa'ould and the Replicators by exploring new planets using the Stargate to make alliances and aquire advanced weapons and technology for Earth to fight back with.

23

I get to be a lower deck starfleet commander in a post scarcity universe.

Thats even better then winning the lottery!!

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So... I got summoned to another world with a single power: access to an online grocery store with instant delivery. I'm good at cooking but since my ability doesn't involve fighting, I got expelled from the "hero party". Now a mythical fenrir has made a familiar contract with me and protects me as long as I cook him delicious meals.

It's not a bad way of life I must say.

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Bojack Horseman.

So I guess I get paid to be miserable and destroy my own life... Well at least I will get paid for it now.

13

Olympic figure skater. You may find me in the ER with multiple ripped tendons and overworked muscles, maybe a dislocated joint if we are getting fancy.

12

I just finished an episode of Doom Patrol, and I'm not sure where to begin with this question

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I'm a helicopter pilot for an antarctic military research outpost, and I have a thing for flamethrowers.

I mean... could be worse.

10

An autistic ER surgeon. Even in meme-fantasy world, I can’t escape my neurodivergence.

9

Space station commander… and later captain, but we’re not there yet. (Hubby’s first watch, my second.)

9

Richard Dean Anderson as Jack O'Neill in SG-1. Unless I get the relevant skills we are all fucked

9

I am running a space station and leading a coalition of aliens in a fight for survival in a war against the shadows

8

they're welding me into a submarine please help me I didn't do anything they aren't resupplying my oxygen help me I am going to die here please help

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Pokémon trainer, doesn't sound too bad, I remember fantasizing about that in my childhood mainly because I knew more about that than adults 😁

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I'm the leader of an intergalactic scientific expedition to find out what happened to the ancient friendly aliens that used to live there.

Also, I get to move in to their perfectly preserved, super advanced city! It usually just floats on an ocean, but when it really has to, this baby can fly.

6

....fuck, I really don't want to go back in time 117 times to hold up a diner with a bomb looking for the perfect group of normies to volunteer to save the future world from the dangers of AI.

Shit sounds mentally exhausting and emotionally draining.

6

Crap, I’m a high school student again? (I’ve been re-watching Malcolm in the Middle.)

No wait, this is the season Malcolm starts to work at Lucky Aide. So I’m a high school student and a minimum-wage, part-time drug store employee. Great.

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A supercilious British Secret Agent, tossing off bad one-liners, at women who should have really stayed away.

6

I'm spending a lot of time today yelling things like "Tell me where the bomb is!" and "We're running out of time". My wife and daughter have been kidnapped, and the people who I work with may be involved in both.

This is the longest day of my life...

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In remembrance of Catherine O'Hara we're rewatching Schitt's Creek. So... am I unemployed?

6

Arcane. Best case scientist councilman. Worst case undercity brawler, a psychotic terrorist or a cop.

6

Im watching Bear in the Big Blue House with my daughter right now so...Im ok with this. Looks like a comfy place.

6

Oh fuck, I have to run from mercenaries while being recorded the whole time. Although, I might get a billion dollars if the month treats me well

(The Running Man 2025)

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Fuck, I'm a colonel in a nazi POW camp. Great show, but I never want to live in barracks.

5

I legit don’t know… does being a dragon in another world count as a job? If not I’m as employed as I am in real life.

5

Guess I'm a doctor/medical director

I knew my addiction to medical dramas would one day pay off

5

I am a therapist whose wife died a year ago, and I am crawling my way back into being a functional person again.

5

Starfleet Cadet.

Not bad... Assuming it's in the 32nd century... Otherwise kind of hard to do in the 21st.

5

Life explorer prostitute doctor (Poor Things)

5

I writr books :D

means ill be super poor 'caus I dont know how to write :)

thankfully I won't be harrassed by a hivemind into joining them like the protagonist :)

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I watched an Indonesian zombie movie last night. I thought the whole thing was too easy to predict but I had a good time.

I do not want to be the MC, oh dear...

If anyone's interested, it's called Abadi Man Jaya. I forgot what was the English name for it.

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I've startend rewatching X-Files. So that's going to be interesting. Do I get to do the exact same things (investigate paranormal cases) or would I be a regular FBI agent?

4

I'm either unemployed or a high school student depending on if you include school or not. Luckily, either way I have apt experience

4

Either an FBI agent obsessed with the unexplainable, which I put on for background noise while my girlfriend fell asleep.

Or

A 'cheesecake' photographer taking classy pinup photos in the 50s.

4

Commander of a secret base for defending Earth from low-budget flying saucer attacks while part-time managing a film studio. Sounds like a heavy job that leaves no time for a personal life.

4

I'm a Fry Cook...despite really wanting to be the manager of the Krusty Krab 2.

4

Good news: I work for Angel Investigations. Bad news: I have to figure out MFK for Fred, Cordy and Lilah

4

I'm watching Die-Hard right now, so unfortunately I would be a cop. ACAB, and I'm married, so I would have to kms.

4

I run a castle in Scotland where C-list American celebrities play mafia.

But I get to dress FANCY

4

I’m Wayne from Letterkenny, which means I’m a hick looking after a farm. Pitter patter…

4

I manage a tiny motel in the middle of nowhere where the only guests are the family of a former video rental mogul who lost it all when their accountant committed fraud.

4

Shopkeeper.

Been rewatching still open all hours.

Ironically i am in real life, a shopkeeper lol

4

I guess I work at the PTMC ER now... Good luck Pittsburgh patients, I don't even know how to do CPR

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Le Samouraï was my last movie, do I have to do the job in the same country as the movie? Because I don’t speak French well, so being a French hitman probably wouldn’t work out too well for me. The pay would be good though I’d reckon.

Side note, excellent movie. It’s my third time I’ve seen it now, I’d highly recommend it. Just put on English captions if you don’t understand French, and enjoy. It does require paying attention to, it’s not the kind of movie to have in the background, so keep that in mind.

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Devil Hunter for the Public Safety Bureau (Chainsaw Man). I'm in danger 🥲

3

An author with OCD 🤷‍♂️ was watching as good as it gets

3

Cool, I'm the devil, nightclub owner and fighting crime.

3

Gladiator (Thraex, to be specific) in ancient Rome.

Not looking forward to that, I'll be toast in half second in a match that takes place well before the midday sun (a timeslot for absolute losers).

3

Assistant in Canberra library, where I will help make Australians clevererer.

Could be worse.

3

Prosecuting nazis. I'm more than happy to take that job over my corporate slave job

3

I'm either a Fringe agent working for Fringe Division or an FBI agent working on Fringe cases. Either way, doing some copaganda.

3

The last TV show I watched was an episode of the New Yankee Workshop, so I'm a celebrity woodworker now. mind you I have been thinking of starting a woodworking youtube channel for awhile now, so I guess that's happening.

3

Chancellor of Starfleet Academy! I'll be stuck in the ST Discovery timeline in 32nd century....

3

Guess I’m a child soldier in Iceland, who is likely about to watch his father roll some heads.

(Vinland Saga ep3)

3

It would seem I'm a D-tier MI5 agent with a drunken, abusive, filthy, but lovable boss...okay, maybe he isn't really lovable.

3

A student and/or a professor.

Which I'm happy enough with - I've had a taste of both, albeit with substantially fewer demon-related shenanigans.

3

Apparently I'm a "matchmaker" which is a fancy term for Tinder for rich people.

3

I am a "hero", which means I am a criminal sentenced to undying servitude and sent to the front lines to kill the Demon hordes.

Yuusha-kei ni Shosu - "Hero" is the worst punishment in the world. Those convicted of heinous crimes are sentenced to become "Heroes" and forced to enter the mandatory military service in the war against the Demon Lords. These convicts are not even allowed to die—if killed, they will be resurrected to fight another day.

3

Ex Danish spec ops hiding her identity as a friendly neighbor in an Icelandic condo.

3

I'm a rich guy who learns to be happy and loved without seeking ever greater riches. I throw all my money at saving a piece of nature I previously wanted to exploit for profit

So happy with this outcome, it could have been so much worse. Never been so lucky in my life.

2

Chief suregon 5miles from the korean frontline making booze in my tent.

2

Does Dispatch count? Because if so, I’m a dispatcher/Mecha Man.

If not…I don’t really have a job, I’ve lost all my money and am stuck in a town I bought for my son for his birthday as a joke. (I just started this one, so I’m sure the situation changes somewhat as the show goes on.)

2

Wow lucky me! I got Kaiser of the Galactic Empire. (Legend of the Galactic Heroes; it was an Empire episode).

2

Last thing I watch was Succession. I am the CEO of a massive media corporation.

2

Rewatching Arcane. Really hope I get to be Jayce, otherwise I'm either an actual terrorist, or a cop

2

Zootopia 2 (movie): cop. Trigger (Korean drama series): also cop. ...Well shit.

2

Crooked Politician (Boardwalk Empire).

I am waiting for the show to tell me how it is different from regular politician.

2

The last thing I watched was "Don't Look Up", which means I'm an astronomer, which is certainly a career I'd enjoy. Well, ignoring all the stuff that happens after the start of the movie, I suppose.

2

Depends on who you consider the main character in Fallout TV is.

I would certainly prefer to be a cowboy gunslinger, rather than professionally naive idiot, or immature emotionally underdeveloped idiot.

2

I guess I am an attractive lady AI bot that doesn't really have a profession, but is eager to people watch. I think she drew a drawing once a day. She also killed two human guys.

2

I am a cold hard calculating shell of a man with a drug addiction and a destroyed right leg who is also a genius as a doctor.

2

The last thing I watched was that Secret Mall Apartment documentary. Guess I'm unemployed (an artist) now.

2

The Pitt

Yeah. I'm sorry if I'm your ER doctor. Best I can do is a panadol and send you to the next closest hospital

2

Currently watching Bohemian Rhapsody.... I am the greatest front man who ever lived.

2

Middle manager at a paper making company. Then unemployed, warehouse worker, unemployed again, murderer then automation overseer. Sounds pretty grim

2

Huh, guess rewatching Annihilation just barely was a good call, I’m a professor of cellular biology.

Not my strong-suit (ochem is a mess) but there are plenty of worse jobs in this comment section.

2

I'm a German Shepard travelling from town to town helping people and saving lives, just to receive a thank you and move onto the next place that needs me.

Because maybe tomorrow I'll want to settle down. Until tomorrow I'll just keep moving on.

2

Welp, I'm the last person on Earth, making a vlog while trying to navigate the loneliness of being alone, and avoiding nesters

2

I now work for a secret UK government department tasked with managing all sorts of magic trouble and transdimensional incusions. I ended up here, because i was "drafted" when I almost leveled Wolverhampton when i developed an unadvisable new(to me) kind of software algorithm. This is because Magic is acutally a branch of Mathematics, and after a couple years working at the Laundry, i am quite an acomplished Computational Daemonologist. Also possessed by .. but lets not skip ahead too much. all in good time.

2

Just watched True Romance for the first time. Not sure if that counts for underpaid Comic Book shop job or shitty bulk coke dealer.

2

Rampart, this is Squad-51. How do you read?

I suppose that would be OK.. as long as the 'curse' came with the requisite knowledge and skills.

2

I'm the capitain of a starship trying to get home from the delta quadrant.... great.

2

Mrs Merton was a TV host, right? - I can't imagine working in a pet shop if I have to take Malcolm's job.

2

Being an intern for Anne Hathaway - The Intern. Annoying movie with the skeleton of a very wholesome story, btw. I like Anne Hathaway and Robert DeNiro's chemistry. With a better script it could have been a wholesome The Devil Wears Prada.

Instead it falls into the mid 2010s big tech start up glorification and everybody is a quirky millennial stereotype. Everytime Robert DeNiro has to act in scenes with all these James Corden clones, I feel bad for him. I also feel bad that he had to work with such a shitty script. It's like parts of it was written by a proper writer and the rest was written by a brain dead fratboy.

2

I've been watching Party Down. So, I guess I'm a bar tender for a catering company. But, I'm also about 30 years younger, have a hot girlfriend, and living in the before times, so, yeah, sign me up.

2

Holy shit thats really fun, i just go arround the world do stupid challanges with friends and drive cars. Last show i watched was grand tour for context.

2

The devil as a civilian consultant to the LAPD/nightclub owner.

2

I'm an Expendable. But not the cool action movie kind. More like the 3D printed copy of a person that they use to run experiments on. I die gruesome deaths often... For Science!

2

Olympic Skelton racer. I was watching curling right before though. Which might be safer, but looks like RSI and sore backs for life to me.

1

Apparently I'm working as dream of the endless from here on, a lot of responsibility and family issues but could be fun as well.

1

I'm a super stressed out wanna-be CEO of a tech company in northern California. Every day, someone finds a new way to screw up my plans, often it's me. My best friends are coders and I live in a house run by the most annoying man-child ever.

Could be worse, I guess? Gonna need therapy.

1

Artist I guess? Or grocery store clerk? Not sure which job is worked by the main character of American Animals.

1

I'm either a surly dr out of the Bronx or flying charter planes out of Nantucket....

I watched Becker and wings before going to bed

1

Just finished Netflix's Haunted Hotel. I think I will be fine managing cursed hotel, plus I'll be immortal ghost even if I die.

Also, pls watch, I want more season of Abaddon.

1

Looks like I’m billionaire ceo of Wayne Enterprises, Robert Pattinson edition

1

Accountant for the Navarro cartel. Well I'm okay with math so could at least work out for a few days.

1

Michael Prince from billions. Not bad, not desirable either.

1

I am a hero to my people after hunting one of the universe's deadliest predators with sharpened sticks, stones, and bows... oh, and flowers and mushrooms.

1

Let’s see Gracie’s Corner.

Am I Gracie the person, child star and education advocate/entertainer and NAACP award winner, or am I simply a little girl.

1

I now harvest coffee like an Italian immigrant in early 1900s' Brazil^[Italian emigration inspector Adolfo Rossi undertook a investigation into the conditions faced by Italian emigrants on the fazendas, travelling undercover, disguised as a peasant. Rossi's report painted a dramatic picture of the semi-slavery conditions based on the testimonies collected: women raped, men whipped, discipline that "makes the fazenda look like a colony of convicts under compulsory residence," disease, failure to pay wages or delays in payment, misery. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Brazilians]. Fuck me.

1

Oh shit, oh no. Yautja. So I now hunt the most dangerous game I can find.

1

Either the owner of "The Shop Around the Corner" in new york or the co-owner of "Fox Books"

1

Not descript science person in the last science place a la George Cloonry in The Midnight Sky.

I could dig it. I'd want more drugs than alcohol personally but it looks like a blast apart from slowly dying, but that's literally everything you can do. This come with drugs.

1

Cool. I'm a ruggedly handsome, millionaire, mystery writer who solves crimes with the NYPD and is banging e really hot homicide detective.

1

A recovering drug addict piloting a rapid medical response deep space vessel.

::: spoiler Title Supernova (2000). It wasn't good but I still enjoyed it. :::

1

Priest... Who hunts vampires on a jet powered motorcycle.

I could live with that.

1

I think she is a demonologist. Or a spiritual contacter (dunno the correct word for it).

Hooo boyyy -

1

I'm back in highschool trying to screw my cute teenage aunt, but soon I'll be leaving all of that behind to go on a journey and found a secret society

1

Exploring the universe with the rest of my team using a big ring of shimmering light called a stargate.

1

Spy, but I now have an adopted daughter and a sham marriage to maintain my cover. Also: I keep getting that sinking feeling...

1

I'm a regular person who now has to pretend to be a master criminal in order to not be killed by real master criminals whom I have to work with while the government hunts me?

1

I guess now im a demon general pretending to be a human adventurer in a fantasy world.

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Apparently I'm a Catholic priest in upstate New York that was accused of murder.

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2025-02-17 - Employement opportunities still look bleak as we collectively imagine having jobs from the most recently watched media, when will help arrive?

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