Personal Trainer Gigs

Wasn’t sure if this would be best proposed via IC means but considering the slightest bit of building required I thought I'd slap it here.

I think two slots for a personal trainer job at The Edge would be neat. I believe it has the infrastructure, just needs a terminal. Someone could just do this on their own time but making it an official job and identity would incentivize both the RP and having midbies translate combat mechanics for lowbies. Would also be a nice half step for a few career paths and give bruisers a place to bruise in the downtime.

Can imagine weekly pay would look similar to other positions where one makes a wage but also charges clients. Job duties would include gathering clients, maintaining SparTek gear, facilitating spars, and just making the gym feel lively with fitting RP. More Mix jobs are always nice in my book.

Conceptually, I think this is great, but I view any centralized training locale job as politically bad.

Ideally, people should be working with their co-workers and literal bosses to provide them training and insight on how to handle more advanced gameplay loops. In turn, that should be fostering RP and relationships between them.

We have a significant number of people racing to all meet in the middle, and keeping people drawing lines in the sand is a key part of the game. However, utilizing these locales (The Edge, Armory, Westun's World of Fitness) with you co-workers and friends is monumentally awesome.

I think I also like this as something for complete non-combatants as a way to learn at least some things about combat. They might have(and would be a better option from an RP standpoint) friends that fight who can teach them some of how to fight, but in some jobs where you're not expected to fight, and don't have other PCs on staff who know how to fight, there's not really options for learning that within the sphere of your employment, but may be of interest to you for any number of reasons(either OOC interest in what SD combat is like, or IC wanting to be able to defend yourself).

I'd still expect that more people would want to learn from those closer within their spheres of interaction, deepening relationships and progressing RP there, and I don't think that having a job like this would push away too much from that kind of RP. I'd almost expect it to add a bit more environment to it, because you can have interactions where the veteran ganger or security guard gives you advice on "stuff the Edge doesn't teach" or similar kinds of things(which can also turn misinformation at a gym to turn into a plot opportunity at work, or vice versa).