Occupations

Everyone works, a formal job or simply a means of survival, everybody works. That work takes time, and it yields rewards, some more risk, some with more reward, but they all take time. And anything that can be done, can be excelled at, offering more reward.

Occupations in Bright Future provide you with constant income, weekly in either Slips or units of Wealth depending on your game’s monetary system.

Performance Rating

Tracking a characters performance at their occupation is important for two reasons, continued employment and raises. Performance is checked at the end of each week, and is recorded as a rating from 0 to 5 marked on the character sheet. These ratings effects the profession check made at the end of the month to determine if the character gains advantage or disadvantage on their profession check. A Performance Rating of 0 means a character is struggling to keep their current occupation and a roll is made at the end of the month to see if the character gets fired.

The rating is determined by the players status and allocation of time during the week. Spending a day of downtime working, the character makes a Persuasion DC 10, on a failure they lose their current occupation.

Occupational History

Occupations aren’t permanent, they change. A characters starting occupation is likely related to their background, but could have changed. A farmer who moves into the city would have a rural background would have a more urban occupation. However changing occupations has prerequisites that must be met, even at character creation, based on character skill, income, or ability scores.

Raises

“Those who work, only earn money, those who excel, are rewarded.” -Gavin Smith, Smith & Smith Industries.
Those who maintain their job and performance for a month have a chance to increase their pay. At the end of each month in game, if you are in favorable standing with your occupation, make a Profession check, DC 10. Success results in increasing your monthly salary by $1000 [4W], and weekly by $250 [1W]. If you roll a natural 20, you are immediately paid out a bonus of your full months salary after adjustment.

Result	Monthly	Weekly
Below 10	—	—
10 — 14	$1000 [4W]	$250 [1W]
15 — 19	$2000 [8W]	$500 [2W]
20 — 24	$3000 [12W]	$750 [3W]
25 — 29	$4000 [16W]	$1000 [4W]
+ 5 — + 5	+ $1000 [4W]	+ $250 [1W]

List of Occupations

Prerequisites: Conditions that must be met to get hired into this occupation, unless selected from the list of Starting Occupations for the characters background.
Salary: Starting salary for this position when hired. Some will have a + 1/2 denotation, this means starting salary will be Lifestyle base plus a half (rounded down), for example Modest has a starting pay of 21W, Modest + 1/2 would be 31W.
Guaranteed Downtime: Gives you the amount of paid time off work without having to request time off.
Downtime: Rules for if the occupation can be practiced during off hours.
Occupation Feature: While you hold this occupation, you gain access to this ability.

Academic

Librarians, Scholars, Teacher, Professors, and other educational professionals who spend most of their time in buildings and or behind desks.
Prerequisites: Age 23+, Investigation and either History, Arcana, Nature, or Religion.
Salary: Poor
Guaranteed Downtime: 2 days a week.
Downtime: Can not practice profession during down time.
Occupation Feature: Research: Advantage on Investigation checks when using School, College, University, or Public libraries during downtime.

Blue Collar

From the service industry to factory work, this covers a lot of jobs but usually not ones held behind a desk.
Prerequisites: Age 15+
Salary: Poor
Guaranteed Downtime: 2 days a week.
Downtime: Can be practiced during down time.
Occupation Feature: Familiar Face: You see a lot of people come and go, there’s an odd chance you’ll recognize someone you’ve never officially met before. (Roll a Charisma Check when you meet someone new, DC 10 and you’ve met them before through work)

Celebrity

Fame can strike anyone for almost any reason, but after the fifteen minutes are up, a person is a Celebrity based on if they’re still remembered and active, if they’ve survived it. Usually Actors, entertainers, newscasters, and other personalities.
Prerequisites: Age 15+, Renown 3, Proficiency in Performance.
Salary: Modest
Guaranteed Downtime: 3 days a week.
Downtime: Can be practiced during down time, however an event or public appearance must be organized.

Criminal

There are a long list of ways you can end up on the other side of the law. Cat burglars, muggers, swindlers, organized crime, gangs large and small, bank robbers and other “career criminals”.
Prerequisites: Age 15+
Salary: Poor
Guaranteed Downtime: 2 days a week.
Downtime: Can be practiced during down time, however anytime a character does, roll a Stealth DC 12, on a failure gain a level of Heat as the crime went bad.

Dilettante

Your money is likely old money, most Dilettante have no job, and don’t need to care for many things. However they find one driving passion to keep themselves from going mad; ranging from a charity foundation of their creation, perhaps a personal ideal or cause they believe in, or sometimes selfish desires to just enjoy all life has to offer.
Prerequisites: Age 16+, 150,000 Slips [600W]
Salary: Comfortable
Guaranteed Downtime: 5 days a week.
Downtime: Can not practice profession during down time.
Occupation Feature: A personal cause, gain a Bond while you have this occupation.

1d8	Bond
1	Personal Philanthropic Foundation
2	Charity (Water)
3	Charity (Food)
4	Charity (Standard of Living)
5	Charity (Education)
6	Ideal Freedom (End Slavery)
7	Ideal Justice (Uphold the law, provide proper representation)
8	Personal Experiences

Doctor

General Practitioner to specialist.
Prerequisites: Age 25+, Proficiency Medical kit, Surgical kit, Medicine.
Salary: Modest + 1/2
Guaranteed Downtime: 1 day a week.
Downtime: Can be practiced during down time.

Emergency Services

Medical professionals, firefighters, and other on call professionals.
Prerequisites: Age 18+, Proficiency Medical Kit, Medicine.
Salary: Modest
Guaranteed Downtime: 1 days a week.
Downtime: Can be practice during down time.

Entrepreneur

Self-made individual, prefers to be their own boss, highly motivated, determined. Owning their own business is their passion and keeps them busy, but it’s also made them well known in their local area.
Prerequisites: Age 16+, 40,000 Slips [160W], Proficiency in Persuasion
Salary: Modest + 1/2
Guaranteed Downtime: 1 day a week.
Downtime: Can be practice profession during down time.
Background Feature: Local Business: Own and run a local business, with zero to five employees who work for a living. These employees will not do extra work outside of their job without proper compensation, and most won’t even then.

Field Academic

A rough and tumble Archaeologist and other various field scientists.
Prerequisites: Age 23+, Proficiency in Athletics and Proficiency in either Arcana, History, Nature, or Religion.
Salary: Poor
Guaranteed Downtime: 2 days a week.
Downtime: Can not practice profession during down time.

Investigative

From Journalists to private eyes, police detectives to crime scene technicians.
Prerequisites: Age 23+, Proficiency in Investigation.
Salary: Poor
Guaranteed Downtime: 2 days a week.
Downtime: Can be practiced during down time.

Law Enforcement

Patrol officers, riot cops, SWAT members, military police, special agents.
Prerequisites: Age 16+, Proficiency in Personal Firearms and Athletics.
Salary: Modest
Guaranteed Downtime: 1 days a week.
Downtime: Can be practiced during down time.

Military

Armed services, from basic grunts to special operations.
Prerequisites: Age 16+, Proficiency in Personal Firearms.
Salary: Poor
Guaranteed Downtime: 2 days a month.
Down Time: Can not practice profession during down time.
Background Feature: All Savings: The military provides food and housing for their personnel, they have no living expenses.

Mercenary

Skilled in the art of combat, you sell your skills as a soldier of fortune.
Prerequisites: Age 16+, Proficiency in Martial Weapons or Personal Firearms.
Salary: Job Variable.
Guaranteed Downtime: Job Variable.
Downtime: Can be practiced during down time.

Religious

Everything from a cleric to a theological scholar.
Prerequisites: Age 16+, Proficiency in Religion.
Salary: Squalid + 1/2
Guaranteed Downtime: 3 days a week.
Downtime: Can not practice profession during down time.
Background Feature: Discounted Services: you only need to provide the components for divine spells and your temple will cast the spell if they’re capable.
Alternate Feature: The Temple Provides: You don’t have to pay for housing.

Rural

Those who haven’t come into the walled cities, or those who work closer to nature. Farmers, hunters, and others of the like, they know how to defend themselves since most live in locations without law enforcement.
Prerequisites: Age 14+
Salary: Poor
Guaranteed Downtime: 1 day a week.
Downtime: Can not practice profession during down time.
Background Feature: Self-Sufficient: You don’t pay for food, you grow/hunt your own, and can provide up to ten meals a day on days you work or in Downtime you spend being self sufficient.

Scavenger

Turning societies discarded trash into useful items, earning money off of selling things you find and made.
Prerequisites: Age 14+, Proficiency with Mechanical Kit or Electronic Kit.
Salary: Squalid
Guaranteed Downtime: 0 days a week.
Downtime: No down time.
Background Feature: Trash to Treasure: Pay a quarter the normal price when crafting, but items made carry a -1 penalty to any skill check, attack bonus, damage, or armor class.

Student

Still learning, College or University students, Undergraduate or Graduate students.
Prerequisites: Age 16+
Salary: Squalid
Guaranteed Downtime: 2 days a week.
Downtime: Can not practice profession during down time.
Background Feature: Skipping Class: You can always skip work, succeeding an Intelligence check DC 8 ensures you keep up with class.

Magi-Technician

Magi-Tech Science and Engineering jobs.
Prerequisites: Age 23+, Proficiency in Arcana.
Salary: Modest
Guaranteed Downtime: 2 days a week.
Downtime: Can be practiced during down time.

White collar

Office Workers, Middle Management, bank personnel.
Prerequisites: Age 23+, Proficiency with Computer
Salary: Modest
Guaranteed Downtime: 2 days a week.
Downtime: Can be practiced during down time.