Entry Level Jobs.
Outside of Bartenders

Reason I ask is the last few characters haven't been able to get a job outside of the shit bartender ones that pay like 2500-3500 a week. Definitely nothing to write home about or help you claw outta Red.

I'm just trying to get some ideas, because when you do the IDEAS prompt in Chargen, it gives you achetypes but they are all SUPER long term, like Judge, Drug dealer and etc. All things that require items which run upwards of 100k flash with a newbie can't really make to accomplish the task.

I'm looking for something that's entry level as the title says, but not a boring ass bartender.

For the 8k a week "real" job, I had to show up, get bitched out by a receptionist, find some items by making contacts, write a resume, show up again and deliver the resume, wait, show up again and show my character could actually do what they said they could do. In the course of which they got belittled, but hired.

I'm convinced that this was not because of the particular career my character pursues. To use the example from game-help earlier, if you want to play a serial masturbator who has to diddle with robots to get their rocks off, play one. Apply for robotics jobs at corporations. Wait. Do odd jobs. Get told the corps aren't hiring? Seek out people that might need their robots diddled with. Can't find anyone? Come up with some business opportunities that would utilize other peoples' skills in addition to your own, and pitch it. Maybe you met a guy doing odd jobs that wants to start a drug operation. Well shit, maybe he needs to have chemical fires put out all the time, huh? You can diddle a robot right up for that. Or maybe you ran some errands for a guy that manages a gym. Say, what if the gym was the only one in town that had a robot chummers could spar with? Diddle it up!

Obviously, the robot idea isn't exactly implementable in the game. But the point is the same. Yes, it's nice to have a dependable weekly paycheck, and you can get some out of the gate. Maybe not the ones you want, though; so make it happen some other way, and come back when you've got more, and better, skills, and ace the interview then. If you even still want the job.

ShinMojo's right, it makes no sense to employ a PC at most shops.

Thanks for leaking many details of IC information. It's against the @rules to talk about your personal experience with salaries or prices of things.

It's been said before, but it bears repeating now:

It's not a coded game you RP in. It's an RP game with coded support. The code is going to be wholly biased towards that, and NOT towards coded mechanics for your personal success. If you continue to expect it to be biased towards fairness, rapid advancement, and your personal success, you're going to continue to be bewildered by every mechanic and fight the system.

What you've not yet understood is that it's a VERY GOOD system. It's biased towards RP, and it supports that goal INCREDIBLY WELL.

Before you go any further wondering about coded systems and personal advancement, you should stop and learn about what it means to Role Play, and how to do it. Specifically you should focus on how to to remove yourself from yourself, and step into character. These questions that you keep asking, they totally make sense if it was a coded game, but you're going to keep getting the "It's to support RP" answer because you don't seem to understand what RP is about.

There's a ton of other posts on how to RP effectively. I suggest you start there, because understanding that will give you a lot more insight into all these other topics.

I have done what Jinx said, and the admin are failing to hire me for any job I attempt to get icly. So you're telling me to go do shit, I do it, then you guys don't hire me.

Unless it's a shit job, like a bartender, it's always no. I have tailored characters to make a perfect candidate even going so far as to make the make believe @history aiming towards the goals I created with the character in mind.

Their response time isn't horribly bad, it's just their acceptance to anything I want to do that sucks heh.

The point of a job isn't for X chyen per week, at least not my main goal now. The point of getting any of the jobs I'm trying to get is to have a reason to roleplay with you guys.

I'm not just going to walk into X bar and start acting like we are friends. That's not how it works in real life or roleplay.

Say you get a job in Green or Gold and people don't want to leave their squalor. Boom half the people gone.

Not to mention it's boring as shit.

It is by FAR AND AWAY the most 'unlimited' job available when it comes to providing you with RP opportunities. Remember how no one will come to the bar to be your friend? Well when your a bartender, that's all people do. No other job in the game will have people flocking to your location with a reason to talk to you. Period. Now suck it up, buttercup, and start slinging drinks.

You said the point was to give you an excuse to RP. This IS it. This is the moment you've been waiting for, the perfect job, the grand opportunity to have an excuse to interact with just about everyone in the game.

You've missed the point of the game, which isn't to provide you with a fun time. It's to provide a role play setting, and the fun time is strictly optional and entirely at your discretion, but absolutely not guaranteed or even something they care to cater to.

What I said was that the point isn't to provide YOU with fun. It's to provide you with a role playing setting, and the fun is strictly BYO. What you consider not fun (bartending and interacting with all kinds of other people) others do.

Yeah, I've never had a problem meeting people at the SH factory. Just stick around the area and wait for someone. Then initiate some RP in whatever way to you feel is appropriate. The SHI is the most valuable asset a fledgling newbie can have, I think. I just started and I can attest that the game is unfair and difficult. But that's what's so fun about it. It's just some boring hack and slash. You actually need to use your imagination to do something. Here's an adage from my other favorite game - Dwarf Fortress: LOSING IS FUN. Enjoy the ride.

Playing with the web client in conjunction with various translation plug-ins might help to some degree.

Lena's real-life English is fine, that isn't the issue at all.

In my opinion, the whole "entry level jobs" concern mainly serves the entry-level player, not the entry-level PC of a veteran player.

OOCly, we have many players who English is not their first language and this is not a consideration except in very specific positions that may require an a specific command of the English language (IE: NLM content creator, Globe writer). In those situations we do our best to accommodate.

This seems off topic from the original discussion. Please keep to the original topics, both when they are new topics or when you are necroing a thread. Locking this thread.