[HPforGrownups] Jobs

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 50186

>    Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 14:17:35 -0800 (PST)
>    From: Maria Kirilenko <maria_kirilenko at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Jobs
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> 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!

Some of the other posts have covered part of this already...

As you say, the largest employer certainly appears to be the Ministry, who
are involved in everything, to the extent that one could wonder out loud
exactly how the wizard economy can stand the financial burden!

Of the others that we have _seen_ in the books:

Education of course, but also ancillary jobs - Hogwarts has a groundskeeper,
a caretaker, a librarian, and so on.

Transport - the train and the bus.

Catering - the various taverns in London and Hogsmeade

Retail - shops ditto

Media - the radio, newspapers, magazines, not to mention wizards like
Lockhart who appear able to support themselves as full time writers and self
publicists

Sport - Quidditch is a professional game with a number of teams

Finance - Ron's brother works for Gringotts as a treasure finder.

Going beyond this is of course purely speculative but leads to some
interesting speculation. I think the correct term for most of the wizardly
economy is not mediaeval or 19th century but pre-industrial. There would
have to be some industrial processes - otherwise how would they get hold of
metal - but I would feel that most of those would be susceptible to magical
processes (which would almost certainly be less toxic both to the
miner/smelter and to the environment than their muggle equivalents). Most
other commodities mentioned would be able to be produced in a craft
environment.

Cheers

Ffred

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