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What are some cyberpunk jobs?
| programming obviously
| Networking, Cloud Computing, Programming, DBA, Engineering, Medical/Healthcare, Corporate CEO, Heavily Armed police officers, Cybersecurity, and (I consider it) Tech Support.
| Organ farm.
Liver fucked from years of binge drinking? Get a new one.
AI Therapist.
IoT devices will have smart algorithms driving them. What happens when their usage habits change?
VR architecture and related studies.
Bridging the gap between meatspace and waifus. More of a research topic but w/e
| Sewage worker.Someone's gotta do the blue collar work.
On that note, any form of electrical maintenance job fit right into a cyberpunk setting.
| How can I get into cybersecurity? That seems interesting.
| You start by getting into IT, and then you specialize.
| Prostitution.
| Drug dealer fits the lowlife part of cyberpunk I guess.
| Illegal Tech dealer, I have no examples but I'm sure that exists already
| ^maybe underground cloning services?
| butcher, somebodys gotta sell you that alien meat
| >>118025 seconded. Get a practice exam and study guide for an IT cert, for example CompTIA. Then lurn moar.
| The obvious ones like programming, coding, hacking, software development, cyber security, but I think it could me more than that. More physical things like sound systems or wearable tech could be considered cyberpunk, or maybe things like organizational/social psychology that study technology in relation to how humans operate. Military jobs, the U.S. in particular are shifting in that direction with a lot of cyber security, satellite systems and warfare by proxy via RPA.
| And for those of you seeking this kind of stuff, there are a lot of options. The military as I mentioned, intensive coding/programming focused schools, traditional universities offering computer science/engineering degrees, or even just independent study and certifications.
| Working at huge software company (Western Europe office) by day, then spam Facebook by night, to get some extra cash.
| Working a normal job by day and doing shady shit by night feels the most cyberpunk to me.
| Shadowrunner of course
| Trafficking is probably p common
| Anything where you aren't a part of their system.
| Dealing malware in the black market
| Btw does anyone want the source code for an incomplete keylogger?
| So reading here, basically everything that in involves electricity in it?
Wow how odiginal. Why I never thought of it before. No wonder why many think we are already living in cyberpunk.
Genius.
| Bartending ofc
| >>119646 anything cybernetic not with electricity, it just happens that all cybernetic stuff needs electricity
Like steampunk jobs involve steam powered machines like locomotives
| >>119646 Yes, because electricians are so obviously cyberpunk. The whole main thing with cyberpunk is technological advancement that changes how society operates, so I fail to see why you're surprised with any of this. Technology is advancing and social order is changing.
| Don't forget about Biotechnology and specially Bionics and Bioinformatics.
| Information Systems Tech
It's what I'm doing. You set up servers and networks as well as manage them. It's what I've always wanted to do. I never wanted a desk job where I just program for hours, not my thing.
| >>119835
I completely agree with the reasoning. It also means that by that logic, the rough lot of 90% of all jobs today are cyberpunk as electricity is everywhere in a way or another. An accountant uses the computer as well so that is also cyberpunk.
But aren't we exaggerating a little bit?
| >>122670
My my, new job names pop up all the time.
I never knew I was an Information Systems tech. I always thought I was a system administrator or a network engineer.
If you want a piece of advice, that would be "never join together the system administration and networking. In addition to making a clusterfuck in the long run by blurring the modular nature of modern systems, you will not be able to be decent in any of the two fields, only a jack of both trades and master of none."
| I always thought computer/smartphone repair was pretty cyberpunk
| If we were to take Va-11 Hall-A into consideration, then I'd say that I would probably be one of the factory workers creating the ingredients for different places (not just bars).
It can't be all done with automatic systems.
| I think a pretty cyberpunk thing would be bounty hunters. Police can only do so much, even with lots of new technology, and there would be a lot of shady places where police wouldn't be able to get access, so bounty hunters would probably be very useful.
| >>125344 I'm pretty sure that's illegal more or less everywhere. That's why I consider it a more cyberpunk job, and yes, being a bounty hunter seems awesome, even though you'd probably get killed by some criminal you were trying to catch, but still. It sounds awesome.
| >>125377
What are you talking about? Bounty hunting is totally legal, you just need to get a license for it. Some places dont even require one.
| >>125384 where do you live? I want to be a bounty hunter, one that uses crazy gadgets made by myself to catch crooks
| You can be a bounty hunter in the US. Dangerous job I hear.
| AR addiction specialist. Eventually augmented reality / VR gets to be more than a stereoscopic screen and some shitty plastic wands - your mind IS IN VR. Some people could use that to fuck with your brain, your memories, chemical balances, etc. AR Therapy could consist of diving into mindspace to fix people directly, instead of indirectly with drugs, etc. Maybe they could build neural pathways (with your consent) that help you be more functional, or better than you wete.
| When I say bounty hunting I mean running around with guns and gadgets in like back alleys and shit, in like full out gun fights and shit.
I live in Norway btw. Here the only gun you can legally own is a hunting rifle, so there would be none of that here. Also Norway has pretty low criminal activity, so something like bounty hunting isn't needed.
Maybe the government might hire someone to do some cracking, but I wouldn't consider that bounty hunting.
| >>125380 Yes. That's kind of the point of it. Also to earn money to be able to survive of course, which makes it even more thrilling, even though your life is really shitty.
| Engineer for sexual robot.
The reason, that probably you know..
| >>126738
"Error error, sexytime.sh not found. Switching to rock boring mode"
And then your dildo becomes a dildon't. And that's why I would never get a sexbot.
| >>126870
That would be your own fault alone. A sexbot is for fucking it literally, not trying to relpace its rom with your ssd.
So yea, you are obviously not sexbot material.
| Holy shit g/u/rls black ID, I'm the chosen one! I, I feel power overflowing.. >whatishappeeniiiinghaaaaaa
| >>128020 as a script kiddie on the path to true hacking I midt say, trying to mod or invade stuff is irresistible
| >>128106
>Voice of Oracle at The Matrix
You will be in front of a choice.
On one hand you will have the option to have your sexbot unchanged forever and fuck her/him till kingdom come.
On the other hand you could root her good and give her true AI and consciousness but she will leave you to discover the world and you will not meet again.
The choice will be yours.
I am sorry kid. I hate to give bad news to good people.
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