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[cautionarytale]

I'm taking a survey.

What did everybody do for a job before, you know, coming here?


[private to Howie; added later]

I think I had girl talk. Does that count as making a friend?

Comments

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

Ran a business, so to speak.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

What kind of business?

[soundof-drums.livejournal.com]

Ruler of Earth?

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

And how do you get be ruler of Earth?

[lazarusrisen.livejournal.com]

I've told you what I did before the Company, right?

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Um. You lived in Japan?

[accountsettled.livejournal.com]

I was a soldier. Latterly of the Parliamentary Army, before that, a mercenary.

Why do you ask?

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

What's it like being a soldier? Or a mercenary?

Curiosity, that's all.

[requiresssacrifice]

Chief Experimental Doctor for M.A.R.S. Industries. Most of my work concerned the development of advanced nanomite technology.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

What's nanomite technology?

[agent-bly.livejournal.com]

That's confidential.

Private

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Can you give me a hint?

now I get to spam you with my guys.

[pleasesmirk.livejournal.com]

Captain of the City Watch.

Which I think makes me the highest ranking and most experienced policeman on board, but that doesn't count for much.

hurray

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Is being a cop like, a lot of work? What kind of stuff do you get to do?

[triplekill.livejournal.com]

...tech support. For computers.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

You sit in a dark room all day staring at a computer screen? Gee, sounds exciting.

[wichita-kansas.livejournal.com]

Conned stupid men out of their money with ease.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

That sounds like more fun than being a cop or a computer geek. How'd you do it?

[greatlightother.livejournal.com]

I was a doctor and a trainee in the Night Watch.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

What's the Night Watch?

[born-in-blood.livejournal.com]

Forensics.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Fingerprints and DNA and stuff?

[evilbystatute.livejournal.com]

Head of a department at the Unseen University. Which makes me a lecturer too. When people turn up.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Department of what?

[thatlibbychick.livejournal.com]

You know what I did.

Private

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I got it, Good Samaritan and general Holy Jesus of shrinks, when you're not brainwashing people and stalking your boyfriend.

[gotgirlballs.livejournal.com]

Resident physician at a teaching hospital, student adviser and teaching assistant at the nearby med school, blah-blah-blah.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Teaching kids to jab people with needles. What a vocation.

[una_persson]

Member of the League of Temporal Adventurers, politician, and revolutionary. Before that, an actress.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

What were you revolting against?

He's lying :c

[deusexmechanic.livejournal.com]

I captained and piloted a starship. How about you, baby?

So's she :[

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

I worked for a paper company.

What's it like running a spaceship?

[thisanxiety.livejournal.com]

Fuckin badass.

[Private]
Drug dealer and occasionally a student except that bitch of a teacher hated my guts, so I mostly said fuck it.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

That your job description, or what you think of my survey?

[private]

You like being a drug dealer?

[itsyourtime.livejournal.com]

I was a doctor.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Are you fascinated by the science of medicine too?

[namorofthesea.livejournal.com]

I was king of Atlantis.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

The Master was King of the World. Maybe you guys should like, wrestle in the mud to see who's cooler.

[lotoftrouble.livejournal.com]

Would you count 'god of mischief' as a job? Because that's what I was-I still am that, as a matter of fact.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Sure, why not?

[future-games.livejournal.com]

I was a painter.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Isaac Mendez, right? I think I've heard of you.

[wandthief.livejournal.com]

I've never had an official job but I felt that my goal was trying to bring different cultures together.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Were you a diplomat or something? Like... a freelance diplomat?

[villageson.livejournal.com]

I suppose I would have taken over from my father, running the Village.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

What Village? Who was your dad?

[young-idealist.livejournal.com]

I was a law student until the revolution, but after that you could say that being an emigre was a job into itself.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Running away isn't a job. Didn't you, I dunno, fight? On... whichever side?

[parttimejob.livejournal.com]

I was the acting chairman of a private academy.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Large and in-charge. You like it?