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from you paper round at "only the news we want you to see" your local systems friendly newspaper... you were paid 3 IC p/h

your 17 years of age and have been let go from your first job. you dont know a trade and the planet is having an economic crisis.

the only jobs available to you are as follows:
Local regiment of guard - 8.3 IC p/h
serf for the AdMech - 4 IC P/h
Cadet at the AdArbites 3.3 IC p/h
Apprentiship at a local amunition factory (with an outstanding....ly poor safety record) 5.2 IC P/h
Crew Serf aboard the Almighty justice an imperial naval vessal 3.8 IC P/h
Trooper in the PDF 6.6 IC P/h
Eccleisarchy 0 IC P/h you do it for the love of the god-emperor

current exchange rates

1 Imperial credit (IC) =
1 GBP
1.68 USD
1.2 EUR
1.7 AUD

Loaf of bread =3 IC
Pint = 6 IC
Bowl of soup = 1.5 I
Average inside hive = 420 IC P/m

which do you choose and why? think of promotional prospects and simplicity.. look into it get some decent answers going!!!

EDIT!!!

Lets throw it in the mixer a bit...

War is coming. In the next system along word has spread of a cultist uprising... your 22 and have been working in your chosen field (as above) for the last 3 years. do you continue with you post or swap to the next one? Conscription is now in place for anyone who does not belong to one of the above. do you stick with it or do you swap?? May the God-Emperororer be with you.

TOP COMMENT SO FAR!

 Sir Samuel Buca wrote:
£6 a pint?! I'd rather become a servitor.

Admech serf. Least risk of dismemberment and death.

Id say admech was more risky if anything. spesh a serf and for 4 credits an hour? couldnt be doing with that. no chance of promotion and no chance of living out your days in peace

Trooper in the PDF. Worst thing I'll most likely ever deal with is a local rebellion.

Living out my days in peace as a mere AdMech production worker is exactly what I chose. 40K is a hellhole, may as well take the least bad.

I will survive, unlike many others.

Guardsman. Feth this planet, if I get eternal life at 'Emp's side, then I can be happy.

Besides, I don't know better.

 TheCustomLime wrote:
Trooper in the PDF. Worst thing I'll most likely ever deal with is a local rebellion.

Which will most likely get you all killed to a man so that the Ig can show up and get slaughtered so that the SM can show up and take the credit.

Trooper in the PDF. Loads of cash and I don't have to go offworld or get shot at by a Commissar.

Admech, it may be shell hole but it's a safe hell hole and you may get some cool servo limbs if lucky.

Least your far less likely to be eaten by a tyranoid or a bolter shell to brain.


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+ Admech is a stable one, there's always a need for a hull painter in tank factory district 17 bravo, factory sigma

 TheCustomLime wrote:
Trooper in the PDF. Worst thing I'll most likely ever deal with is a local rebellion.

Said the Mordian Guardsmen on their home planet just before a chaos invasion nearly destroyed the whole thing.

But yeah, I'd still go PDF route.

Trooper in PDF

4 IC for servo arm or implants!!! no way

squidhills wrote:

 TheCustomLime wrote:
Trooper in the PDF. Worst thing I'll most likely ever deal with is a local rebellion.

Which will most likely get you all killed to a man so that the Ig can show up and get slaughtered so that the SM can show up and take the credit.

Yeah... At least Id get a Laser Gun.

 TheCustomLime wrote:

squidhills wrote:

 TheCustomLime wrote:
Trooper in the PDF. Worst thing I'll most likely ever deal with is a local rebellion.

Which will most likely get you all killed to a man so that the Ig can show up and get slaughtered so that the SM can show up and take the credit.

Yeah... At least Id get a Laser Gun.

If your lucky the tyranoid will kill you before it eats you.

Eh, chances are I'll never see a nonhuman in my life.

PDF trooper. I'm completely safe untill an invasion in which case I'm dead anyway.

I'm gonna start a Slaanesh cult.

Knowing myself Id join the guard, just to get away from the montous hell of my home world.

pm713 wrote:
PDF trooper. I'm completely safe untill an invasion in which case I'm dead anyway.

Sounds like a pretty good deal to me!

Crew serf because to boldly go where no one has gone before and navy chicks. Its 40k. I'll die horribly regardless so may as well have fun

Probably apprentice at the Munitions factory. Just because making ammunition sounds fun. Plus the pay seems decent. Not too worried about dying. It's the Imperium, you won't get anything done by being scared of dying. And dying is my only option, I'm not letting myself live if I'm missing an arm or leg.....or if my member doesn't work anymore. Munitions factory sounds very much like a reasonable choice. If thats not whats expected, I doubt the Guard will turn down volunteers any time soon. PDF sounds extremely boring. Arbites is paying too little. the Ecclesiarchy. Crew serf also sounds boring, and there's no way I'm listening to the Mechanicus, they might get someone to replace my body parts for better efficiency.

The local regiment. Keep fit, probably get fed, if things go to hell im more able to defend myself and Im also prolonging the lives of the people around me, possible saving them etc etc.

If im sent off planet, then its an experience many people will never have. Plus there is room for career advancement if I manage to live.

Assuming I get fed and have to stay at the barracks I should be rolling in the cash.

Ecclesiarchy, hands down!

Screw fighting, feth money. All I need, my parish will provide. And I'll get the chance to shake off this tolerant, PC, moderately liberal non-practising Catholic pose once and for all and finally unleash the hidden Taliban in me! YEAH!

Join the guard. Cross my fingers I end up in a regiment where the commanders aren't too dim or bloodthristy. If I do then I cross my fingers I outlive either of those traits.

Pray you end up in an Armoured regiment. Might not be too comfy in a Russ, but at least you're not running out there in a T-shirt.

Local IG regiment. Free rations. "Fair" pay.

Only a 99.999999% chance of death before the age of 20.

Best odds of profit overall

Eclisiarchy. If it's like the actual church, my life is assured.

As a PDF you wouldn't live inside the hive I imagine, so that's a decent income

You probably would have to live in the hive. Admittedly PDF barracks are probably better than regular digs.
Though you'd also have to go around the gakky parts of the hive when there are riots and stuff.

Probably Cadet in the Adeptus Arbites. Low pay to start, potential for promotion (Judge, Repressor Driver, etc), least likely place where you'd get yourself in trouble. Don't have to do much apart from join the occasional snatch squad, go on parade, lecture the occasional noble or quell a riot. Pension will probably be quite nice, and there's probably a load of benefits to being the Emperors local police. There's also enough scope for getting sequestered into an Inquisitors Retinue if you fancy travel as well...

 zedmeister wrote:
Probably Cadet in the Adeptus Arbites. Low pay to start, potential for promotion (Judge, Repressor Driver, etc), least likely place where you'd get yourself in trouble. Don't have to do much apart from join the occasional snatch squad, go on parade, lecture the occasional noble or quell a riot. Pension will probably be quite nice, and there's probably a load of benefits to being the Emperors local police. There's also enough scope for getting sequestered into an Inquisitors Retinue if you fancy travel as well...

Don't forget all the grimdark paperwork that the administratum layers upon everything, and that you must appease the mechanicus every time you use your equipment to kill someone.

At least in the IG you're considered too unimportant to do paperwork

Arbites because I still get a small wage boost in addition to the it being the least fatal career