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cyclonus743:
The Day Job quality came up recently in my group.  Specifically what about modifiers based on education qualities.  Since for the most part the day job pay is one sizes fits all.  And some think that level of education should count.  I was just wondering what thoughts there are on this.

My thought on is was that its likely the way it is because a range based on education is not needed because people whole get payed less would probably quit their day job when to go into the shadows and big executives who would be payed more that the rate in the book probably wouldn't quit their safe jobs to go risk life and limb as a runner

Critias:
It really depends on what the Day Job is, what sort of business it is, how the player and GM communicated to define it.  I know a guy with a Master's degree who's waiting tables, IRL, y'know?  An education isn't a guarantee of a high paying job.

Irian:
It's a negative quality. If it was a "You have a great job where you earn lots of money", it would COST points. :-)

cyclonus743:
The question was about a character who's day job is a doctor.  We've since come up with that she's a street doc or some such.

Critias:
Illegal Day Jobs are the easiest ones to explain away, concerning their pay rate.  She's an illegal, black market, back alley, patch-up artist.  She's got to pay off local gangs for "security" and "protection," has to pay some local hackers to rig up power and running water, has to pay off Knight Errant to look the other way, has to have some muscle on-hand to try and get payment from the two-bit razorboys and wannabe gillettes that pay her to give 'em new muscles, has to bribe at least one legitimate medical supply company to get parts in stock, and might even still be throwing nuyen hand over first at med school student loans.

Sure, maybe she's a full-on trained MD, and could be getting carted around town in a stretch limo Mercedes, doing cosmetic surgery for superstars and high roller executives...but she's not.  She's a grimy, dirty, two-bit, illegal, street doc.  Of course she's lucky to make ends meet and still bring home a couple bucks here and there!

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