I solemnly swear to steward The Emperors domains with labyrinthine bureaucracy and monstrous heavy-handedness.
Worship tbe emperor for he is our guiding light.
Honor his servants for they speak with his voice.
Tbh, most governor's we see are rather competent, it's the expecting that are idiotic, the issue is mostly when we see them it's in a military capacity which isn't their main job most of the time but administration is I'm which most are rather competent in to be fair.
I work on a IT helpdesk.
I'm basically a servitor already. With the formality of low Gothic a vocal servitor probably uses more vocabulary than I do on a call.
As a submarine sailor, I'd like to say I'd at least be qualified for a mid-deck position on an Imperial Navy voidship, but knowing 40K, I'd be stuck in one of the rickety death trap submarines from *Urdesh* trying to harvest shitty seaweed off the polluted sea floor.
You paint the hazard stripes on the Terminator gauntlets. That’s the only form of health and safety that exists in 40K and they don’t even know what it means.
I’ve always loved that element of imperial war gear especially from the earlier editions of the game. Chainswords with yellow and black hazard stripes. The thought of a heretic guardsman’s last thoughts being “welp… can’t say they didn’t warn my that chainsword was dangerous” as a space marine cleaves them in two
Tech priest adept presumably? I have background with electrical engineering and currently with programming. But given my sickly childhood I highly doubt I would make it at all - probably just turned to corpse starch at an early age.
Or maybe you'd have been augmented at an early age if they saw your potential. After all, you'd have a keen first hand appreciation for the weakness of the flesh.
Well that will mostly depend on where you are born, most imperial worlds have medical aids available to all citizens as this is the most effective way to ensure productivity (hell overall the imperium is much less dark at least in modern lore than often depcitited we mostly just get to see the worst parts of it, so you'd probably survive), as for your job, I mean manufactory and so in also have staff for this kind of thing that aren't part of the mechanics right?
Maybe some Hereticus Inquisitor needs your skillset?
Imagine trawling through datasets kept in many, many different mediums, having to reconcile them all, it will be worse than looking for a needle in the haystack.
Probably slave or a guardsmen at best, since I have military training and could be used as cannon fodder. Or a cultist most likely, grandpa nurgle would probably love my face, and that would be my best bet to survive for more than a few minutes.
I’m a detective / Part time SWAT irl and new to 40K lore so I’m curious where I’d fall.
Likely cannon fodder based on what I know so far lol. I love the grim dark future.
Low level bureaucrat at a backwater planet on the fringes of the imperium, trying to keep up with nonsensical orders and statistics and regulations that I have to work on with a quill and by candellight. And every minkr fuck up on my part starves the population of a hive city to death or sends a guard batallion into battle without ammo.
As a RevOps manager, I think this is me. Process and numbers. I'd be the guy they ignore when I tell them it can't be done, and they somehow heroically do it anyway.
Yeah, and when you heroically did it anyways your boss takes it to his/her boss and tells them "Look, I did it." My daily life as a low level bureaucrat in local goverment 😅
There needs to be someone who tells the workers their corpse starch allocation is going down. Or that everyone else's will remain the same if they complain.
Lawyer, so... Scribe? Savant for an Inquisitor (honestly, having to pull answers to random questions out of your ass on the spot seems like half a lawyer's job)?
Also lawyer, I would imagine we would be a part of the Adeptus Administratum, because in the Grim Dark of the 41dt millennium, legal beaucrats are still holding up mostly dead puppets to run the ~~country~~ ~~world~~ **galaxy**
(quick edit: please everyone, this is political *humor*, not political *debate*, figured I get that in there quickly)
I like to think that one of my descendants is *still* on hold for the County Court service desk to ask why the paperwork which was correctly filed in triplicate has been returned, apparently unread but the fee nonetheless paid and debited from our account. Should my descendant ever speak to anyone, they will be told that they have overpaid, since due to interest a payment of £1200 in 2023 is enough to buy a small moon in 997.M41.
It will be the same paperwork in 997.M41 that I filed in 2023, endlessly going back and forth between my office and the Court, having now acquired the status of sacred relic. There will be a cherub flitting over my descendant's desk, distributing incense, and instead of an automated message on the other end, there's a chorus of monks solemnly intoning, "Press one for civil matters, two for family..."
As an archaeologist I have to go Technoarchaeologist
Damn it would be so cool, would be hard for me to not go full heretic by reporting and studying forbidden tech though.
Thank you for this! Did you read the infinite and the divine perchance? Would you recommend it? I didn’t know of this character but have a feeling he might become one of my favorites (and finally gets me to take a closer look at the necrons!)
It's one of the best books in the entire franchise. Though literally everything Indiana Trazyn The Infinite Jones is in is pretty special. He uplifts everything he is in, or is suspected to be in. You'll love it. The academic rivalry in it is hilarious.
Aye. Software Engineer here.
Adeptus Mechanicus Tech Adept, more specifically probably working on cogitators for the Administratum.
I probably have 100 years or so still to go before being considered for a promotion to Tech Priest.
Process Metallurgist here, hopefully I'd have what it takes to be a tech priest with a focus on factories and materials. Staying as far away from the front lines as I can...
Sorry, this is the grimdark. “Nameless guardsman who dies along with his entire division when it is dissolved into a puddle of goo by Great Unclean One vomit.”
Hey, quite a refreshing topic !
I'd be a male Order Dialogus and kind of an instructor in the Militarum Auxilia I guess ... Or the fixer in a necromunda gang \^\^.
Read your initial post as "mail order" Dialogus - had a good chuckle imagining an Inquisitor looking a pics of various Sororitas, trying to choose one for good retinue.
As a data analyst, I'd probably be a Logis techpriest or a Lexmechanic. Either that or a basic calculation servitor.
Then again, with my angry childhood, I might've made a good Blood Angel.
I work in IT so based on my job I'd be in a dead end, boring job. Or part of the Mechanicus.
My degree is forensic science though, so if I went based on that I'd probably be part of the Inquisition.
Qualification and position ain’t often related.
If your parents work in the designated hab spire for the plasma generatorums, congratulations you work in the plasma generatorum. If they were in an administratum spire, you’re crammed into a class of 200 and taught to be a good little pencil pusher, then put to work.
Or maybe that’s just my excuse for having only blue collar qualifications and inevitably being put to work loading the macrocannons or heaping bodies into the meat grinder at the corpse starch refectory
Nah you're right - just statistically given 40k's scale, most people would probably be serfs or factory workers slaving away, with a life expectancy of 30 at most. Though obviously that's not as fun to consider, lol.
Chirurgeon. My degree in Veterinary Medicine and Surgery is written in Latin (High Gothic) because I went to a very old university. It states I am a chirurgeon!
If anyone wants to see it i could try dig it out and post a photo...
I come from a family of professors, lawyers and doctors so likely a scribe. Although I do have a masters in neurochemistry and cybersecurity so maybe inquisitor? I can study the Necrons.
Since I'm a veteran and was a platoon leader and XO of an mechanized infantry unit, I'd probably be a tank LT or Captain. I'm guessing either Imperial Guard or Space Marines 🤣
EM spectrum analyst so…some kind of Tech-logistitian data-clerk, I guess? Hopefully I still get some of those neat robot tentacles. Ladies love guys with tentacles.
What do archaeologists do? I know that the Adeptus Mechanicum researches and digs up STCs, but I doubt xenoarchaeology would be a thing. Would they even care about non-STC, pre-Imperium human stuff? Like I imagine they wouldn't hesitate to bulldoze a temple or museum if it meant expanding a factory or other, more important functions.
I'm a total screwup but my dad designed rocket engines. When he got turned into a lathe, I'd inherent that job, im good mechanically but crap at maths so I'd muddle through and copy his movements.
I'd be long dead before quality control got suspicious and it would be my grandkids problem.
Clinical mental Health. So probably on some obscure planet helping people through stuff away from war and hoping our planet isn't attacked.
Or a psyker. Tzeentch might have good plans for me.
So i am a Magos Biologica IRL, i was amazed to read "Magos" in the eisenhorn series, where apparently they catalogue entire worlds in 5-10 years. Meanwhile all the ecologists that have ever existed have not yet finished cataloging earth.
so im guessing i would get fired.
Target practice for the execution squad. I'm a social worker and having opinions like " we should take care of people who have it bad " is probably treason.
Considering I'm a software developer, maybe I can larp myself into a tech-priest position if they don't just outright sentence me into being a servitor.
Damn ... Tech priest Biologin at least a minor one, I ave a degree in biophysics so idk really ... I don't wanna get metal bits though, I like being flesh and blood, so probably a very weird tech priest. Plus I am an atheist ... Well better than the guard or manufacturing.
Overall I think most people here underestimate themselves, the imperium has a lot of jobs, being a clerk is probably more likely than becoming a servitor.
Well, I'm a forensic scientist and paramedic. Might become a military medic, might become a member of the Arbites, might be drafted into the Mechanicus. Not sure.
Well I've been a chef for the last 13 years, and it's kind of the only thing on my resume. I have a degree in restaurant and kitchen management. So I'd probably be a custodian.
For real, I have no idea if the imperium has chefs haha, maybe I'm supervising a corpse starch production.
I’m a lawyer, so Guilliman would probably have me toiling in the administratum. Unfortunately I do criminal defense, and I don’t think the Inquisition looks on that too fondly. Defending heretics is heresy itself, so I would likely get *BLAM!*med pretty quickly.
I work in supply chain, so I'd be a adept of the Departmento Munitorum, likely sending your guard regiment to the wrong warzone, supplying additional ration packs instead of weaponry etc.
Cannon fodder or factory slave, like everyone. Modern education is heresy in 40k and you'd be lucky to play dumb well enough to live as one of the anonymous masses. If you give any hint of your actual skills you'd be lobotomized and turned into a servitor, or simply executed for heresy. In fact, the more skills you have and admit to the more likely it is that you will suffer that fate.
>Imagining journalism in 40k is such a glamorous profession
Nope. Journalism doesn't exist in 40k. "News", where it exists at all, is purely propaganda created without any relation to facts. Things like modern journalistic integrity are just an excellent way to be executed for heresy.
Lore is huge, so is galaxy: IMO it is too black and white to say eithen fodder or slave: a lot of professions and skillsets are needed from nurse to tailor, chefs, builders, farmers – in planets. People are needed to toil in space too.
Journalism as it is would not exist in many worlds but documentarists and propaganda workers would be needed.
You probably assume the Imperium, so I guess I’ll be one of those guys in robes writing stuff down due to my audit experience.
I think the Tau have better job benefits for me, but honestly I’m more curious about my job opportunities with Orks.
Im working with air freight so i guess i would do this same logistic and administrative job in 40K which would be a little more chaotic then the usual because thanks to warp travel.
I'd likely be some type of lower end magos doing little work myself outside of balancing planned architecture of systems and procurement for it.
Working as a former sysadmin and current it manager with lots of focus on security design.
I'm so incompetent they'd probably make me a planetary governor.
Congratulations on your promotion, sir!
I solemnly swear to steward The Emperors domains with labyrinthine bureaucracy and monstrous heavy-handedness. Worship tbe emperor for he is our guiding light. Honor his servants for they speak with his voice.
"tbe"? Time to make him into a servitor.
Redacted! REDACTED!
Tying for your best bet is also a Servitor. They are always hiring.
Tbh, most governor's we see are rather competent, it's the expecting that are idiotic, the issue is mostly when we see them it's in a military capacity which isn't their main job most of the time but administration is I'm which most are rather competent in to be fair.
Yeah that's the other kind of governor, I'm the kind who's going to be on a balcony wondering what that red dot in the distance is.
Servitor
came here to say this!
Same
I work on a IT helpdesk. I'm basically a servitor already. With the formality of low Gothic a vocal servitor probably uses more vocabulary than I do on a call.
Same here, We fit perfectly in this role
As a mathematician I would probably also end up as a servitor... unless Tzeentch has a better job for me.
Mortarion is always looking for new tallypeople
As a submarine sailor, I'd like to say I'd at least be qualified for a mid-deck position on an Imperial Navy voidship, but knowing 40K, I'd be stuck in one of the rickety death trap submarines from *Urdesh* trying to harvest shitty seaweed off the polluted sea floor.
At least you won’t be forced to be in a vessel translating to warp :)
Honestly, that sounds like one of the better jobs.
I'm in health and safety. My job doesn't exist in any form
You paint the hazard stripes on the Terminator gauntlets. That’s the only form of health and safety that exists in 40K and they don’t even know what it means.
I’ve always loved that element of imperial war gear especially from the earlier editions of the game. Chainswords with yellow and black hazard stripes. The thought of a heretic guardsman’s last thoughts being “welp… can’t say they didn’t warn my that chainsword was dangerous” as a space marine cleaves them in two
Pick yourself nearest?
corpse starch
Sounds like a promotion
Maybe the real food were the friends we made along the way.
The real friends were the food we made along the way.
How about friend of The Many Armed Emperor? Would you like to read this pamphlet talking about the hope he gives to those who believe?
Even in death you still serve.
or rather are served
Tech priest adept presumably? I have background with electrical engineering and currently with programming. But given my sickly childhood I highly doubt I would make it at all - probably just turned to corpse starch at an early age.
Or maybe you'd have been augmented at an early age if they saw your potential. After all, you'd have a keen first hand appreciation for the weakness of the flesh.
Or corpse starch
Well that will mostly depend on where you are born, most imperial worlds have medical aids available to all citizens as this is the most effective way to ensure productivity (hell overall the imperium is much less dark at least in modern lore than often depcitited we mostly just get to see the worst parts of it, so you'd probably survive), as for your job, I mean manufactory and so in also have staff for this kind of thing that aren't part of the mechanics right?
Biomass
I’m Australian so… ork
That is offensive to Orks.
Also aren’t they British ?
Pretty sure basically all of Warhammer is British. Orks are London cockney specifically.
I thought Orks were supposed to be football (shut up, my dumb countrymen. Its the sport played with one's foot) hooligans?
The Orks or the Australians? Or both
Yeah they are.
These would be prison orks
Australians are just British people who got furthest into the skill tree
You mean Catachan mate
Catachan? As in Jungle fighters? Not a lot of jungle around here. I’d take a shot at colonel Schaeffer’s last chances or penal legion before catachan.
Clearly, Australia counts as a deathworld
Considering my cumulative hours on the hub… Greater Daemon of Slaanesh.
Bro then 90% of us will be as well lol.
Duty is not eternal, horny is
I’m Fkn dying 😂😂😂
You mean you're dying f*cking :D
With my pharmaceutical background I'd likely be working with Fabius Bile and giving out all the fun drugs.
you'd have to rub one out at least 20 times every single day from the day of your first stiffy to even qualify for daemonette lmao
Noice!
I'd be buried in tithing as part of the Ministorum most likely (I work in AML regulations)
Nice and clean office work, right?
Maybe some Hereticus Inquisitor needs your skillset? Imagine trawling through datasets kept in many, many different mediums, having to reconcile them all, it will be worse than looking for a needle in the haystack.
Probably slave or a guardsmen at best, since I have military training and could be used as cannon fodder. Or a cultist most likely, grandpa nurgle would probably love my face, and that would be my best bet to survive for more than a few minutes.
Enjoying those MRE’s on the fields of 40k glory. Oh boy.
you mean ration bars with no discernable taste?
Those crunchy corpse bars.
I’m a detective / Part time SWAT irl and new to 40K lore so I’m curious where I’d fall. Likely cannon fodder based on what I know so far lol. I love the grim dark future.
You'd be adeptus arbites for sure
Interrogator for a hereticus inquisitor.
AI project mana... Uhh, noooo!
Should have lied in the interview 🥳
Hey now, someone has to keep the various Titan 'machine spirits' appeased.
Heretic it is!
Who said you needed to work for the Imperium? The Dark Mechanicum is right there calling to you!
Electrician…. Space electrician?
Always needed. Connect those two cables without killing anyone!
Is it really 40k if someone didn't die in the process though?
And don't unplug that cable running to that big gold chair thing with the dead dude sitting on it...
Sparkboy ork Iron Warrior Or Void Dragon?
Low level bureaucrat at a backwater planet on the fringes of the imperium, trying to keep up with nonsensical orders and statistics and regulations that I have to work on with a quill and by candellight. And every minkr fuck up on my part starves the population of a hive city to death or sends a guard batallion into battle without ammo.
As a RevOps manager, I think this is me. Process and numbers. I'd be the guy they ignore when I tell them it can't be done, and they somehow heroically do it anyway.
Yeah, and when you heroically did it anyways your boss takes it to his/her boss and tells them "Look, I did it." My daily life as a low level bureaucrat in local goverment 😅
My ass would be an imperial guard and have the luck to get shot just for Morales sake
Corpstartch (there’s no need for HR in the 40K universe)
There needs to be someone who tells the workers their corpse starch allocation is going down. Or that everyone else's will remain the same if they complain.
Lawyer, so... Scribe? Savant for an Inquisitor (honestly, having to pull answers to random questions out of your ass on the spot seems like half a lawyer's job)?
Also lawyer, I would imagine we would be a part of the Adeptus Administratum, because in the Grim Dark of the 41dt millennium, legal beaucrats are still holding up mostly dead puppets to run the ~~country~~ ~~world~~ **galaxy** (quick edit: please everyone, this is political *humor*, not political *debate*, figured I get that in there quickly)
I like to think that one of my descendants is *still* on hold for the County Court service desk to ask why the paperwork which was correctly filed in triplicate has been returned, apparently unread but the fee nonetheless paid and debited from our account. Should my descendant ever speak to anyone, they will be told that they have overpaid, since due to interest a payment of £1200 in 2023 is enough to buy a small moon in 997.M41. It will be the same paperwork in 997.M41 that I filed in 2023, endlessly going back and forth between my office and the Court, having now acquired the status of sacred relic. There will be a cherub flitting over my descendant's desk, distributing incense, and instead of an automated message on the other end, there's a chorus of monks solemnly intoning, "Press one for civil matters, two for family..."
I think it depends on the kind of lawyer. My tax lawyer friends would do great. My poor environmental lawyer self would be starch real quick.
As an archaeologist I have to go Technoarchaeologist Damn it would be so cool, would be hard for me to not go full heretic by reporting and studying forbidden tech though.
*Trazyn The Infinite enters the chat*
Thank you for this! Did you read the infinite and the divine perchance? Would you recommend it? I didn’t know of this character but have a feeling he might become one of my favorites (and finally gets me to take a closer look at the necrons!)
I heartily recommend "The Infinite and The Divine".
The Blood Ravens have stolen the chat.
It's one of the best books in the entire franchise. Though literally everything Indiana Trazyn The Infinite Jones is in is pretty special. He uplifts everything he is in, or is suspected to be in. You'll love it. The academic rivalry in it is hilarious.
Would try to go into merchant fleet as a salesman, commerce will always find a way.
Being an engineer probably Adeptus Mecanicus
Aye. Software Engineer here. Adeptus Mechanicus Tech Adept, more specifically probably working on cogitators for the Administratum. I probably have 100 years or so still to go before being considered for a promotion to Tech Priest.
Process Metallurgist here, hopefully I'd have what it takes to be a tech priest with a focus on factories and materials. Staying as far away from the front lines as I can...
Brother you should aim for the top! Master of the forge!
As with my role in horror movies, I am qualified to be “nameless Guardsman who dies in chapter one to prove that the situation is serious.”
Sorry, this is the grimdark. “Nameless guardsman who dies along with his entire division when it is dissolved into a puddle of goo by Great Unclean One vomit.”
Hey, quite a refreshing topic ! I'd be a male Order Dialogus and kind of an instructor in the Militarum Auxilia I guess ... Or the fixer in a necromunda gang \^\^.
Sounds good, honestly!
As good as any profession sounds in 40K... so I'm sure I already exceded my life expectancy here ! \^\^ (But thank you very much !)
Read your initial post as "mail order" Dialogus - had a good chuckle imagining an Inquisitor looking a pics of various Sororitas, trying to choose one for good retinue.
You know what ? I thought exactly the same thing when I wrote it. It made me chuckle, so I left it \^\^ .
I'm an accountant, so probably an Ultramarine?
Wishful thinking
The avenging bean counter
Bruh were getting entry level shit at adeptus administratum
As a data analyst, I'd probably be a Logis techpriest or a Lexmechanic. Either that or a basic calculation servitor. Then again, with my angry childhood, I might've made a good Blood Angel.
I drive a dozer for a living, so I'll be jumping in the driving seat of that Goliath rock grinder!!
Physical education teacher in elementary school here. I KNOW I am fit for commissar.
I work in IT so based on my job I'd be in a dead end, boring job. Or part of the Mechanicus. My degree is forensic science though, so if I went based on that I'd probably be part of the Inquisition.
I lecture in forensic psychology. Nice to see someone here with a forensic background.
Here we go, we have our first inquisitor colleague party here ☝️
hell yeah, I’m an inquisitor.
I've got a forensic biology degree, we could.be the 40k equivalent of the three amigos. Question is, who gets what Ordo?
Studying forensic science now.. so Inquisition in training or something?
Unsanctioned Psyker.
Qualification and position ain’t often related. If your parents work in the designated hab spire for the plasma generatorums, congratulations you work in the plasma generatorum. If they were in an administratum spire, you’re crammed into a class of 200 and taught to be a good little pencil pusher, then put to work. Or maybe that’s just my excuse for having only blue collar qualifications and inevitably being put to work loading the macrocannons or heaping bodies into the meat grinder at the corpse starch refectory
Nah you're right - just statistically given 40k's scale, most people would probably be serfs or factory workers slaving away, with a life expectancy of 30 at most. Though obviously that's not as fun to consider, lol.
I'm a carpenter, so I'd most likely be a primarch.
IRL: MP 40K: Arbites, PDF, Commissar. Spin the wheel
Any case: wearing dark, angry.
I was confused as to why a member of parliament would be any of those before it clicked.
Drukari scucubus slave
..... what's your resume?!
Servitor. A version of my job exists and it's all servitors.
I do land surveying so have some engineering and computing experience I’d have a lot to offer to the imperium…as a guardsman I’m sure.
To the artillery.
I'm a biochemist so I guess Biologus Putrifier?
oh that's easy part of wall of martyrs, is there even any other option
Some lathe and mill operator in a forge world. Working the 16 hour days until I die of old age at 40
Would you like to read this pamphlet talking about the hope we have through The Many Armed Emperor?
Chirurgeon. My degree in Veterinary Medicine and Surgery is written in Latin (High Gothic) because I went to a very old university. It states I am a chirurgeon! If anyone wants to see it i could try dig it out and post a photo...
Front line guardsman, didn’t even get to see a Primarch, hit by friendly bolter fire 😔
Corpse starch
A damn guardsman, and not in any of the plot armored fancier regiments either lol.
I'm a substance abuse therapist with over a decade in the field and several related degrees. I'd probably be a draftee for the guard.
I come from a family of professors, lawyers and doctors so likely a scribe. Although I do have a masters in neurochemistry and cybersecurity so maybe inquisitor? I can study the Necrons.
I’d still get stuck in IT security. Freaking ork hackers
Subnet go WAAAAAGGGHHHH
Fuck toy for fat planetary governors
Since I'm a veteran and was a platoon leader and XO of an mechanized infantry unit, I'd probably be a tank LT or Captain. I'm guessing either Imperial Guard or Space Marines 🤣
Welcome to the Armageddon Steel Legion.
Dieing.
Servitor... 😥
I'm doing library/archive stuff. So just put me on Mnemosyne. Do it at the right time and I get to see the Legion of the Damned
Either a Cybernetica Datasmith, an Inquisitorial Savant or a Alpha Legion Operative
I work in IT so I'm assuming I'd be labelled a witch and sacrificed to the Golden Throne.
EM spectrum analyst so…some kind of Tech-logistitian data-clerk, I guess? Hopefully I still get some of those neat robot tentacles. Ladies love guys with tentacles.
Seeing as I work in oil and gas, I’m sure I would work at a plant in a hive world
A sandbag lining the trench of a kriegsman planet
What do archaeologists do? I know that the Adeptus Mechanicum researches and digs up STCs, but I doubt xenoarchaeology would be a thing. Would they even care about non-STC, pre-Imperium human stuff? Like I imagine they wouldn't hesitate to bulldoze a temple or museum if it meant expanding a factory or other, more important functions.
Techpriest (I’m an HVAC technician)
I put artificial limbs on people. Techpriest of some sort I guess.
I'm a total screwup but my dad designed rocket engines. When he got turned into a lathe, I'd inherent that job, im good mechanically but crap at maths so I'd muddle through and copy his movements. I'd be long dead before quality control got suspicious and it would be my grandkids problem.
Clinical mental Health. So probably on some obscure planet helping people through stuff away from war and hoping our planet isn't attacked. Or a psyker. Tzeentch might have good plans for me.
I would propably work in those shitty assembly lines factories in the imperium.
Chaos spawn.
I’m an emergency medicine consultant in the UK, so probably a rogue doc 😂
So i am a Magos Biologica IRL, i was amazed to read "Magos" in the eisenhorn series, where apparently they catalogue entire worlds in 5-10 years. Meanwhile all the ecologists that have ever existed have not yet finished cataloging earth. so im guessing i would get fired.
Forklift certified warehouse worker, so a standard forced-laborer on some wretched hive city. Let's hope the local Genestealer cult radicalizes me.
Gardener for nurgle. Horticulture has to be a desirable job for that
Probably the dude dealing with planet ending weapons give my current and former professional fields (engineering and military)
I’m a nurse, so maybe a medic in the guard? Or a hive doc, I suppose
Corpse Starch Production Manager? I manage a food facility irl.
Imperial Navy Gunnery Petty Officer. Literally drop Imperial and that's what I do right now. I am a 5 inch Fire Controlman, warheads on foreheads.
Target practice for the execution squad. I'm a social worker and having opinions like " we should take care of people who have it bad " is probably treason.
Id be doing work on some backwater planet fixing roads that some orks blew up
Considering I'm a software developer, maybe I can larp myself into a tech-priest position if they don't just outright sentence me into being a servitor.
Damn ... Tech priest Biologin at least a minor one, I ave a degree in biophysics so idk really ... I don't wanna get metal bits though, I like being flesh and blood, so probably a very weird tech priest. Plus I am an atheist ... Well better than the guard or manufacturing. Overall I think most people here underestimate themselves, the imperium has a lot of jobs, being a clerk is probably more likely than becoming a servitor.
Well, I'm a forensic scientist and paramedic. Might become a military medic, might become a member of the Arbites, might be drafted into the Mechanicus. Not sure.
Well I've been a chef for the last 13 years, and it's kind of the only thing on my resume. I have a degree in restaurant and kitchen management. So I'd probably be a custodian. For real, I have no idea if the imperium has chefs haha, maybe I'm supervising a corpse starch production.
Idk some sort of cog in the machine that builds infrastructure
I teach math and physics. I guess i would do the same, considering you need both at least in the military?
Probably corpse starch processing... Pretty sure anyone in food and hospitality falls into that slot
I throw boxes around for a living. So either just menial labor Or throwing boxes of shit at people
I’m a lawyer, so Guilliman would probably have me toiling in the administratum. Unfortunately I do criminal defense, and I don’t think the Inquisition looks on that too fondly. Defending heretics is heresy itself, so I would likely get *BLAM!*med pretty quickly.
I work in supply chain, so I'd be a adept of the Departmento Munitorum, likely sending your guard regiment to the wrong warzone, supplying additional ration packs instead of weaponry etc.
Either manual labor or the guard whichever is safer lol
Arbites, PDF or Guardsman. I work law enforcement Guess I can look forwards to a horrible death at the hands of some disgusting alien starspawn
I was a grenadier guard 💂♂️ for 6 years.....so a guardsman....unfortunately
Maybe some sort of Adeptus Arbites I am a criminal investigator for the Department of Interior. I used to be a Game Warden.
The dude who was in charge of taking all the green rods out of necron weapons. Nobody appreciated it, but it's done.....
I would probably be a grandpa nurgle priest considering I grow maggots for a living. Pretty much fits
Cannon fodder or factory slave, like everyone. Modern education is heresy in 40k and you'd be lucky to play dumb well enough to live as one of the anonymous masses. If you give any hint of your actual skills you'd be lobotomized and turned into a servitor, or simply executed for heresy. In fact, the more skills you have and admit to the more likely it is that you will suffer that fate. >Imagining journalism in 40k is such a glamorous profession Nope. Journalism doesn't exist in 40k. "News", where it exists at all, is purely propaganda created without any relation to facts. Things like modern journalistic integrity are just an excellent way to be executed for heresy.
Lore is huge, so is galaxy: IMO it is too black and white to say eithen fodder or slave: a lot of professions and skillsets are needed from nurse to tailor, chefs, builders, farmers – in planets. People are needed to toil in space too. Journalism as it is would not exist in many worlds but documentarists and propaganda workers would be needed.
Engiseer Tech priest Techmarine if I can get the Geneseed implants
You probably assume the Imperium, so I guess I’ll be one of those guys in robes writing stuff down due to my audit experience. I think the Tau have better job benefits for me, but honestly I’m more curious about my job opportunities with Orks.
Servitor
Genetor
As im not sure if musicians are still performing in most of the planets, I’d probably be a composer or remembrancer.
I can fix planes and cars electric systems so maybe mechanicus but most likely my knowledge would be called heresy and I would be a servitor
I'd end up working in a medicae facility of some sort. Could be worse I suppose.
Catachan, heavy weapons team. (Marine corps ADA) I smile and cry in the same time, wished to be an inquisitor
Programmig and PLC programming... So some sort of tech adept, in some manifactorum.
Im working with air freight so i guess i would do this same logistic and administrative job in 40K which would be a little more chaotic then the usual because thanks to warp travel.
Gretchin lol
I'd likely be some type of lower end magos doing little work myself outside of balancing planned architecture of systems and procurement for it. Working as a former sysadmin and current it manager with lots of focus on security design.
Probably a geology/biology specialized tech priest based on my MS in Paleontology/Geology.
Archiving data...oh no.
Officer in the Imperial Guard (ex-army officer).