Jobs

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 50143

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Maria Kirilenko
<maria_kirilenko at y...> wrote:
> 
> My father said recently that wizards don't have very many employment
options - namely, they can only work in the MoM. We, of course, know
that's not true - they can also work in Hogwarts, in shops, on the
Knight Bus and Hogwarts Express. But that's still very little!
> 
> So... any ideas for where else they can work *to earn money*?
Death-eating and 'taking a year off to get some first-hand experience
at DADA' do not count!
> 
> Maria

bboy_mn:
Actually, we had a similar discussion recently as part of another
discussion; sort of a subtopic. Here is a link-

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/49538

Read this and the links below it, for some general preceptions of the
size and complexity of the wizard economy. In one of the sub-posts,
will be a link to an even earler discussion. 

I think most common jobs exist in the magic world. The are wizard
farmers who raise normal crops, but use magical methods to till the
land, plant, harvest, and transport the crops. Other examples of
ordinary jobs; Tom who runs the Leaky Cauldron, Rosmerette who runs
the Three Broomsticks, Mr. Fortescue who makes ice cream. In Diagon
Alley, the are cafes, clothing stores. Each store has to be back up by
many other jobs. 

Take Mr. Fortescue for example, how hard is it to make ice cream?
Milk, sugar, fruit, eggs. Well, mild and eggs means farmers. Fruit and
sugar, since their production in the English climate is limited, have
to be imported. Importers need warehouse, warehouses need warehouse
workers, clerks, accountants, etc... There have to be production
facilities for all the products made, production facilities mean
production worker, for workers to work they need raw material. I could
see a wizard of modest talent working in the Zonko's joke factory
enchantine trick wands all day long. Another work packing dung bombs
all day long. The key to seeing all the job is to not just look at the
obvious out-front jobs, but think of all the jobs it take to support
them. We know who drives and conducts the Knight Bus, but who built
it, who made the curtains, who made the bed frames and mattresses, the
sheets and other bedcover, etc... Any business you can pick has many
many businesses and worker backing it up.

Just a few thoughts.

bboy_mn