Jobs

[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 50202

Maria asks;

> >>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!<<
> 
> Very sound reasoning that the only real job opportunities are in either the 
MoM or in the wizarding world's "service economy". But there are at least a 
few other options. 

One can join the cabal (Which I am convinced exists) of wizarding "importers" 
and deal in comodities from the Muggle world. (Wizards may often have their 
own vegetable gardens, but I doubt they grow their own wheat and grind their 
own flour. And most staple comodities are more cheaply produced by Muggles.)

Or, one can take an aprenticship and learn a wizarding craft. Ultimately 
working in a crafts shop producing the sort of inherently magical products 
which are sold in the shops of Diagon Alley, Hogsmeade and other wizarding 
specialty stores.

The wizarding world also has a considerable publishing industry, if the 
different publishing house names on the various books we've come across in 
canon are anything to go by. There is also the Daily Prophet, and various 
magazines, like Witch Weekly which seem to be in wide circulation. Someone 
has to create content for them, as well as handle the production and 
distribution. 

There is at least a rudimentary entertainment industry, although the 
Wizarding Wireless may be ru by the MoM.

And that "service industry" is prettry extensive, too. I would suspect that 
St. Mungo's employs rather a lot of people in a full range of capacities.

Overall I'd say that the Wizarding world has an economy that resembles a 
rather skewed version of the middle or late 18th century (which was certainly 
viable and self-sustaining) with a heavy, and more recent overlay of 20th 
century style bureauocracy in its regulations and priveliges.

-JOdel


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