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* TooProudForLowlyWork: A character thinks certain jobs are beneath them.
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* AbusiveWorkplace: A place of work that is awful to work at for various reasons (including horrible working conditions, low pay and a toxic work environment).


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* DangerousWorkplace: A place of work that's genuinely hazardous to employee health.
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* UnconfessedUnemployment: When a character is fired and they try to hide it.
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* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: A company fires its employees for whatever reason it feels.

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* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: A company fires its employees for whatever reason it feels.wants to.
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* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: A company fires its employees for whatever reason it feels.
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* HiredForTheirLooks: It doesn't matter if someone is qualified for a job; all that matters is that they look good.
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* HiredOnTheSpot
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* CareerNotTaken: "I might like making a living doing X, but I've always wanted to do Y. I'm only doing X because of Z."
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* TheHelpHelpingThemselves: A household servant steals or otherwise uses their master's property without permission.
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* HandyMan: Exactly What It Says On The Tin.
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* TheHelpHelpingThemselves: A household servant steals or otherwise uses their master's property without permission.
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+ ReligionTropes: Includes multiple tropes about priests and other clergy members who are devoted full-time to preaching their religious beliefs to other people.

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+ ReligionTropes: Includes multiple tropes about priests and other clergy members who are devoted full-time to preaching their religious beliefs to other people. Some priests even exploit religious services to make monetary profit.
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+ ShowBusiness: Careers in the media and entertainment industries.

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+ ShowBusiness: Careers in the mass media and entertainment industries.
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+ ShowBusiness: Careers in the entertainment and media industry.

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+ ShowBusiness: Careers in the media and entertainment and media industry.industries.
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+ CountrysideIndex: Includes some tropes about farmers and agricultural laborers.

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+ CountrysideIndex: Includes some tropes about farmers and agricultural laborers.other laborers who make their living through agriculture.
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+ PovertyTropes: Poor people either have very low-paying jobs or are currently unemployed from any (full- or part-time) job.

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+ PovertyTropes: Poor people either have very low-paying low-wage jobs with crappy pay, or are currently unemployed from any (full- or part-time) job.



+ RichPeople: They obviously have very well-paying jobs, often through holding a high-ranking position in their company or organization.

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+ RichPeople: They Wealthy elites obviously have very well-paying jobs, often through holding a high-ranking position in their company or organization.
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+ ASlaveToTheIndex: When they were never given a free choice about being forced to serve their masters, often for little or no reward.

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+ ASlaveToTheIndex: When they were never given a free choice about being forced to serve Forced laborers who are coerced into serving their masters, often for little or no reward.

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+ MakeMyIndexLive: {{Mad scientist}}s who engage in morally dubious experiments, less for the sake of science and more to satisfy their egotistical curiosities.



+ TropesOnScienceAndUnscience: Scholars and scientists who conduct research and experiments for the pursuit of furthering knowledge in some sort of academic field, and who often teach in a university.

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+ TropesOnScienceAndUnscience: Scholars and scientists who conduct research and or experiments for the pursuit of furthering knowledge in some sort of academic field, and who often teach in a university.working for laboratories or universities.
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+ MailAndDeliveryTropes: Postal services and delivery-people who transport goods and communiques.

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+ MailAndDeliveryTropes: Postal services Couriers, postal workers, and delivery-people who transport mail or other goods and communiques.cargo from point A to point B.
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+ RecruitmentIndex: How employers recruit new employees to work for them.
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* TheHelpHelpingThemselves: A household servant steals or otherwise uses their master's property without permission.
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* VeryFakeResume: A character applies for a job with a egregiously fake or exaggerated resume.

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* VeryFakeResume: A character applies for a job with a an egregiously fake or exaggerated resume.
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* VeryFakeResume: A character applies for a job with a egregiously fake or exaggerated resume.
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* PornCreatorGoingMainstream: An adult entertainer or porn creator tries to change careers to mainstream content.
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* SuperCostumeClothier: A fashion designer or tailor who specialises in outfits for superheros [=and/or=] supervillains.
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* UnusualHiringPractices: A company hires based on a set of skills or achievements outside the usual for a job.
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* TechBro: A technology industry professional, executive or founder with a FratBro personality.

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* TechBro: A technology industry professional, executive or founder with a FratBro or MadScientist personality.
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* CrazyWorkplace: Where both the work ''and'' the employees are mad.
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* ObsoleteOccupation
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* UnionsSuck: Negative portrayals of workers' unions in fiction, either by showing them as useless or corrupt.

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