Purpose

What is your purpose in life? Figure out what you want to do with your life.

Careers

What role do you play in the world?

People are always asking you the same thing.

Go through an international border, take out a bank loan, apply for national security clearance, adopt a child, run for president, meet your fiance’s parents. Everyone wants to know, “What do you do?”

Like it or not, what you do is often the first definition people have of you.

Your career can take up a majority of your time not spent sleeping (or watching television). There are different kinds of careers.

Call it your life purpose, career, daily grind, profession, vocation, industry, class, trade, type, or whatever.

Your careers do not define who you are, but they certainly shape what you can do. Our capabilities are geared to make us effective in our role because success depends on the appropriate abilities, skills, features and background. Career choice is for many people a most major choice about the kind of life they want to live.

Choosing Careers

The career you choose determines what abilities, skills and features you should prioritize to be successful. Careers are not rigid cookie-cutters. Rather they are useful guides for building profiles quickly and effectively.

Path Minuses

Every career has its dark side. Choosing a career is about tradeoffs.

• Eg. moral quandaries
• financial insecurity
• personal risk
• life?

MULTIPLE CAREERS

The days when a person could expect to live their life working in a single career are over. Many people will pursue several careers in a row or at the same time. Job insecurity and natural curiosity lead people to pursue new avenues and opportunities. Many people go back to school to start from scratch after being layed off in a depressed industry. Others get bored with their job and become inspired to try something different.

Careers are defined by a necessary skillset. If you want to succeed in a particular career, you have to master the professional tools of the trade. This may involve going to school for a specialized education and certification, or you might get by being self-taught.

When you pick up a new career, you broaden your range of skills. Many careers have overlapping skills you may already have to some degree, needing at most to upgrade your skills to a higher level. Spreading yourself amongst multiple careers does divide your time and resources more thinly than if you focused on a narrower career track.

Most people have several overlapping roles at a time. You may think of yourself as any number of roles such as a lawyer/parent, a programmer/hacker, an entrepeneur/activist, waiter/actor or geinecologist/rodeo clown, You may have several overlapping roles or change direction from one role to another (many people now persue multiple careers to stay afloat in an unpredictable economy).

Career Paths

Think about what your goals are and what you want to do with your life. Chances are, it takes a career path to reach your goal. Many careers require education, which means first becoming a student.

Skill Choices

You are an individual who makes your own choices about what kind of person you want to be. You decide what skills you want to learn. Your profile should assign skill points to skills and features as you see fit. You can individualize your capabilities to reflect the exact skillset you want. Be Do Have Be an artist

Career Archetypes

Career archetypes simplify the profiling process by giving you a starting point to develop in more detail. Each career describes a set of common skills that most people in that career learn, including a number of discretionary skills. You to be spent individualizing the character. Recommended discretionary skill point assignments are handy for producing totally “stock” characters on demand.

Incremental Experience Levels

People gain skill points incrementally instead of all at once.

Careers

Working in a particular field.

TRAINING

Being a student is a popular career step. What about your student loan? Almost everyone will be a student at least oncce in their lives.

Jobs

Jobs are actual work for employers involving payment and benefits and duties etc., Jobs are different from careers/classes. A job is a particular employment. A person with a single career may have many related jobs along the course of their professional life. Careers may qualify you for many possible jobs. Your career may be politician but your job could vary from campaign coordinator to president or governor, for example.

Jobs are actual paid employment performing the work your career qualifies you for.

Unemployment

You might be an expert politician, but if you are kicked out of your political party, you aren’t getting salary or resources automatically any more until you find a new base of power to employ you.

Career Options

Summaries of the careers.

Career Priorities

Each career is defined by its ability, skill and advantage priorities.

Major priorities are the things a career relies on most. Major things are given top priority. Minor priorities are things that are useful to the career but secondary in priority. Discretionary priorities are things that are not essential to the career but which are popular choices nonetheless.

Career Descriptions

Activist, Journalist, Politician, Lawyer, Soldier

Activist

Activists advocate and take action for causes they believe in.

Skills

Influence, Organizing, Speaking, Writing, Teaching

Journalist

Journalists investigate world events and report stories through the media.

Training

Journalists come from a variety of backgrounds. Many go to school for a Journalism degree.

Jobs

Independent Journalist, Blogger, News Contributor, Pundit, Foreign Correspondent, , Assignment Editor, Editor, Talk show host, News Anchor.

White House Correspondent: A select few journalists from major media outlets are given white house press credentials that authorize them to attend and ask questions at official government press conferences.

Abilities

Most journalists rely on charisma to question interviewees and to relate messages to their audience. They also rely on intelligence to understand complicated subjects enough to explain them and wisdom to be perceptive enough to pick up clues other people would miss.

Ideas

Curiosity, Journalistic Ethics Abilities

Charisma, Intelligence, Perception, Dexterity, Constitution, Strength

Skills Investigation, Diplomacy, Media (Choose one: Radio, TV, Net, Print, Movie), Listen, Spot, Languages (if you travel), Seeing (Wis), Hearing (Wis), Hiding(Dex), Sneaking (Dex)

Features Employment (choose a news organization), Contacts (Choose 1 per level)

Politician

Politicians are people actively engaged in politics, usually in the framework of a political party.

“You never answer a question, you respond to a question.”

Skills: Politics, Deception, Negotiation, Speaking, Influence

Advantages: Party Affiliation

Jobs: School Board Trustee, City Councillor, Mayor, Governor, Representative, Senator, Party Leader, Cabinet Minister, Prime Minister, President

Activist

Activists are people devoted to furthering a cause they believe in. They tend to champion specific issues rather than just seeking political power.

Student

Students are in school to learn and prepare for a career.

Major Skills Knowledge, Features

Debt (student loans 1d10x$1000), Code of Conduct (Academic)

Corporate

A manager, an executive, a company man or woman.

Engineer

Engineers build physical products that do things.

Jobs: Inventor, Researcher, Product Developer

Lawyer

Lawyers practice law on the behalf of their clients.

TRAINING

Lawyers are accredited professionals who must go through law school and take the Bar examination.

Hacker

Hackers are masters of computer security. Some hackers work within organizations to develop and safeguard information technology, while others ply their art outside of corporate ‘Cuba’ to pursue their own projects free from pointy-haired bosses.

Training

Hackers come by their skills in a variety of ways. While some are self-taught, most learn in colleges, certification programs, and corporate employments.

Famous People

Larry Wall, Kevin Mitnick, Case (Neuromancer), Hiro (Snow Crash), Birkoff (La Femme Nikita). Ideas

Hacker Ethics, Geek Pride, Gadget Envy

Abilities Most of the hacker’s key skills rely on intelligence and perception. Physical fitness is secondary when you primarily exercise your fingers and charisma is non-essential for those who spend more time with machines than people. Str 40% Dex 60% Con 50% Int 80% Wis 70% Cha 60%

Skills: Computing (Int), Security (Int), Knowledge(Int), Profession(Wis), Repair(Int), Craft(Int). Jobs Consultant, Administrator, Developer, Cryptographer, NSA analyst, Cracker, Hacktivist

Doctor

Medics can treat injured people. Doctors usually go through medical school. Ideas: Hippocratic Oath Skills: Major: First Aid, Surgery, Knowledge (Medicine), Profession (Doctor), Minor: Knowledge (Biochemistry) Features: Certification (Doctor), University Degree, Jobs: Doctors can work for private clinics and HMOs or public hospitals.

Teacher

Teachers devote themselves to educating young people. Skills: Instruction Advantages: Employment (choose an educational institution) Jobs: Substitute, Faculty, High School, College, University, Tenure

Professor

Professors teach college students and conduct research. Tech Careers To people are technology focused.

Techie

Techies deal with software tech. Master of pure information systems, ‘software experts’, extends manipulating fingers into nets. Tech Programmer Engineer Open-Source Developer

Slackers

Slackers specialize in leisure. They work as little as possible to make ends meet and focus on having fun and enjoying their private life.

Workers

Workers are people who work hard in mostly unskilled labor.

Parents

Homemakers are people who devote their lives to running a household and raising their children.

Professional

Profesionals make up the majority of skilled workers in society. Major Skills Profession (Any), Knowledge (profession related),

Investor

Investors spend all of their time making money.

Intellectual

Intellectuals are the thinkers

Business Careers

Manager

A manager is someone who tells other people what to do. Business Person Suits are Legal corp social. Master of big business, dealing with the corporates on their own turf, executives, lawyers, governmentals, (knows corp and government contacts, can get info on people only the gov has, can tap into fbi/cia surviellance data via contacts at those agencies, can get some government equipment from contacts there, can gain limited access to facilities where they have contacts), corp social, professional

Artist

Artists are people who express themselves creatively

Nomad

Nomads are Mad maxers, bikers

Musician

Musicians.

Fighting Careers

There are people who deal with violence as a part of their job.

Police Officers

Police have the task of enforcing the law. Jobs Detective, Sergeant Police Comissioner Police involved in

Soldiers

Soldiers are modern warriors trained in use of armed force. They are drilled and conditioned to handle potentially deadly situations and trained to wield the most lethal weaponry without hesitation. Most soldiers work within a hierarchical military organization, but many are independent, retired or serve in less orthodox forces. All soldiers have had one job in common: risking their lives and killing “the enemy”. Famous Soldiers David Hackworth (http://www.hackworth.com/) Ideas violence, self-sacrifice, killing, obedience, loyalty Abilities Most of the soldier’s fighting skills rely on dexterity and strength. Constitution is also useful for enduring the physical hardships of combat. Charisma is not particularly relavent to killing people, and charismatic soldiers more often become commanders. Dexterity, Strength, Constitution, Perception, Intelligence, Charisma Skills Major: Shooting, Striking, Dodging, Reaction, Weaponry. Minor: Survival, Grappling, Hiding, Sneaking, Fortitude, Carrying. Optional: Profession Soldier, Climbing, Hearing, Seeing, Survival, Tactics, Military Knowledge, Armory. Features Weapon Proficiency: Military at 1st. Weapon Focus: Assault Rifle at 2nd. Duty (military service), Toughness, Equipment Assault Rifle, 4 mags, 2 frag grenades, Snipers Snipers are soldiers specialized in taking concealed positions and eliminating enemy with deadly accurate long range fire. Ideas: concealment, patience Skills Major: Shooting, Hiding, Sneaking, Minor: Dodging, Striking Features: Far Shot Equipment Bolt-action sniper rifle (bipod, sling, camouflaged), ghillie suit, camouflage paint, binoculars, compass, maps, field rations.