History Main / OccupationTropes

* TheBarber: Someone who trims hair for a living.

* FashionDesigner: Someone who creates new clothing for the latest fashion trends.

* WaitingForABreak
* TheWatchmaker: horologist the one who has to do the minute repair and construction work for clocks and mechanical watches.

+ ClassRelationsIndex: People's ranking in the socioeconomic hierarchy depends on how much income they make from their respective jobs.

+ NewsTropes: Journalists, reporters, anchors, and other people whose job is to write about or discuss current events for the news media.
+ NightlifeIndex: Includes some tropes about bartenders who serve alcohol at bars, pubs, nightclubs, and restaurants.

+ ServantTropes: Laborers whose job is to help assist their employer by doing some sort of unglamorous work for them.
+ ShowBusiness: Careers in the entertainment media industry.

+ SportsTropes: Professional athletes who compete in sporting contests.

+ TropesForSale: Merchants, salesmen, and other workers whose job is to directly sell consumer products to costumers; often in some sort of marketplace, retail store, or shopping center.
+ TropesOnScienceAndUnscience: Scholars and scientists who conduct research and experiments for the pursuit of furthering knowledge in some sort of academic field.
+ WrestlingTropes: Professional/sport wrestlers.

* TechBro: A tech industry professional with a FratBro personality.

* TravelingSalesman: A merchant who visits distant locations to sell their products.

* TheWatchmaker: horologist the one who has to do the minute repair and construction work for clocks.

* {{Yuppie}}: Members of the Baby Boomer generation who were "young urban professionals" during TheEighties.

* FashionModel: Attractive people, usually women, who have to pose in photos while wearing the fashion designer's clothes.

* BusinessAsUnusual

* AcceptableProfessionalTargets: Jobs that are considered okay to mock.

++ TheseTropesHaveBeenPromoted: Moving up a rank in the hierarchy of one's profession.

++ HunterOfMonsters: Someone who specializes in hunting down (usually evil and/or inhuman) supernatural beings and creatures, whether to protect humanity or simply for personal gain.

++ ClownTropes: Those goofy circus performers who wear garish clothes and makeup.

++ PovertyTropes: Poor people either have very low-paying jobs, 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.

++ ConMan: Confidence tricksters (or con artists/men/women) are professional fraudsters and white-collar criminals who fool and scam people out of their money.
++ OrganizedCrimeTropes: Gangsters and mobsters who work for criminal groups that behave like illegal businesses, running all kinds of rackets and trading in the BlackMarket for profit.
++ PirateTropes: Outlaws whose way of living is based around {{pira|te}}cy (whether in the seas, {{sk|yPirate}}ies or {{space|Pirates}}), through hijacking and robbing merchant vessels that pass by.
++ StealThisIndex: Professional thieves whose "income" is derived entirely from forciby seizing other people's money or property.

++ NightlifeIndex: Includes some tropes about bartenders who serve alcohol at bars, pubs, nightclubs, and restaurants.

+ HiredGuns: Mercenaries, security guards, and other private contractors whose jobs typically revolve around being hired to carry weapons and engage in various (il)legal, risky, or violent actions on behalf of their clients; especially to attack or protect people and their property.

++ BushidoIndex: Samurai, the feudal warrior-nobility of medieval and early-modern Japan.
++ SirIndexOfTropes: Knights, the feudal warrior-nobility of medieval and early-modern Europe.

++ RoyaltyAndNobilityTropes: Monarchs and other aristocrats who directly inherit titles of political authority through legally enshrined nepotism.

++ ASlaveToTheIndex: When they were never given a free choice about being forced to serve their masters, often for little or no reward.

++ MovieMakingIndex: Cast and crew members involved in film or television production.
++ MusicTropes: Singers, instrumentalists, composers, and other musicians.

++ WrestlingTropes: Professional/sport wrestlers.

++ MasterOfTheIndex: These people are ''very good'' at whatever they do for a living, if not some of ''the best'' experts in their given field.
++ MentorIndex: Experienced masters who train apprentices on how to do something.
+ TropesAtSea: Includes various tropes about maritime occupations; such as civilian sailors employed to work on private merchant ships, naval personnel conducting military operations at sea, or outlaw pirates who hijack and rob ships for a living.

++ GroceryStoreIndex: Retail workers who are employed at grocery stores, selling food and other household products.

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

* Artists:
** EccentricArtist: An artist whose strange quirks are reflected in their works.
*** MadArtist: An evil and insane artist who engages in grotesque and sociopathic things for the sake of their art.
** SensitiveArtist: An artist who's quite moody and emotional.
** SequentialArtist: {{Comic|s}} illustrators.
** StarvingArtist: An artist who has trouble with profiting from their works.
** TerribleArtist: An artist whose illustrations would fail to impress a kindergartner.

** FlairBartending: Someone who juggles bottles and entertains patrons while serving alcohol

** UltimateBlacksmith

* Chefs:
** AngryChef: A hothead who bosses around their kitchen staff.
*** EvilChef: A chef who happens to be a villain.
** TeamChef: A member of a group who is skilled at cooking.

* Corporate Executives:
** CorruptCorporateExecutive: A ruthlessly greedy businessperson who runs a major corporation, doing evil and unscrupulous acts for the sake of profit.
*** ThereAreNoGoodExecutives: All wealthy entrepreneurs are nothing but amorally greedy, capitalist robber-barons.
** HonestCorporateExecutive: The inversion of the above; a businessperson who is decent and honest, and refuses to do anything illegal or unethical with their company.

** SleazyPolitician

** ChineseLaborer: Chinese immigrants hired to work in railroad construction or other menial labor jobs in the [[TheWildWest American Old West]].
*** ChineseLaunderer: Chinese immigrants working in laundromats.

** EccentricFashionDesigner: A fashion designer with a quirky streak.

** FanserviceModel

** DisposableIntern: An intern or newbie is ordered to do highly risky or undesirable work.

* Journalists:
** DaEditor: The person who runs the newspaper, or at least controlling what gets printed and published.
** ForeignCorrespondent: A journalist who is reporting in another country besides their own.
** ImmoralJournalist: A dishonest reporter who has no problems with bending the facts to get a sensational (fake) news piece.
** IntrepidReporter: A journalist who actively seeks out interesting news stories, even going on risky adventures to do so.
*** TagalongReporter: A journalist who joins in on the hero's adventures to report them.
* Landlords:
** CrankyLandlord: They have little patience for tenants who annoy them or are slow with paying rent.
** DropInLandlord: A friendly or comedic landlord who's always showing up at the main characters' apartment to say hi.
** SingleIssueLandlord

** BadBoss: They won't give any shits about their employees' safety and welfare, and may indulge in cruel methods to keep them in line.

** InexperiencedKiller: A hitman who's never really killed anyone before.

** EvilLibrarians

* Shopkeepers:
** AsianStoreowner: An (East or South) Asian immigrant who works as a shopkeeper.
** FriendlyShopkeeper: A shopkeeper who treats their customers especially well, and always provides goods and services at a reasonable price.

** MagiciansAreWizards: Despite their showmanship, they are in fact capable of real magic.

* SweetBaker: confectioners are nice people

** SentOffToWorkForRelatives

** FlairBartender

** TeamChef

* ASideOrderOfRomance: A character meets his love interest while she is on the job as a waitress.

** SequentialArtist