No Right Answer: Best Science Fiction Job Ever

[CyborgGinger]

Great episode. I was expecting "Who is the Best Avenger" or something along those lines but got what turned out to be a really fun thought-experiment.

Being a MiB is just Border Control with a nice suit and a gun... but for aliens. How exciting is that, really?

 

[Jacked Assassin]

How could that drinking round go without mentioning the Heman reference at the beginning of Ghost Busters 2?

Also being a Ghost Buster would stink because of the danger of Crossing The Streams.

On the other hand there's always slime.... for experimenting with.... NSFW....

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I already live with the downers of being an MIB Agent so that might be a better fit for me....

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I believe in Aliens, but I don't believe in people who believe in Aliens.

I don't believe in Ghosts.... But if I did I'd probably have more issues with reality.

 

[N_of_the_dead]

I would not mind being a Ghostbusters, the idea of getting paid to essentially cause excessive property damage and still charge people sounds pretty awesome. Though I'm sure with those packs it's easy to develop back problems, but still beats working as long as the MIB and getting the shitiest retirement plan. Wasn't it in the first movie they work on such different hours you could suffer a psychotic break from the that alone? Then your retirement plan is being mind wiped and ditched somewhere to end up in a tabloid...kind of sad when I think about it.

 

[RandV80]

Best sci fi job? Well technically it was only a one off from the show Sliders (which would be parallel world traveling), but in one episode they came to an Earth where a terrorist bio attack unleashed a virus on the world that targeted and wiped out only the male gender of the human species, leaving the few remaining men who were naturally immune to be a cherished resource by the women and put in an intense selective breeding program in an effort to repopulate the human race.

How about that for a job?

 

[Aureliano]

Y'all are crazy. Starship captain, Person in Black, Ghostbuster and especially Pizza Guy in Porno all need freaking hazard pay what with their likelihood to either explode or have something otherwise horrible happen to their body.

Best sci-fi job ever? Holodeck programmer. "Computer! Turn down Ms. Monroe's pills by 10%, bring Jane Fonda from Barbarella in here and create a bouncy house 5m x 5m. Computer, re-stock the whipped cream!" And if you're worried about it not being a 'job', then the federation aren't the only people in the galaxy who make holodeck programs.

 

[Wuvlycuddles]

Come on guys, clearly Starship Captain is the best job. Not even talking about Han or Mal, who live awesome, but very hard lives. I'm talkin Starfleet here. Take me to the planet where all they do is eat delicious food and have sex all day (Which is a real place in Star Trek!). Oh, I can't go there? Not close enough? No problem. "Computer: Bring up Sexy Nympho Gourmet Planet program in the Holodeck!".

Yeah, you see the problem with being a Starfleet captain is you gotta work your way up from being an unnamed ensign, you are usually fine once you head up your own department, but till then you have you stop from crapping yourself every time you get told to go down to a planet or fix something or stand anywhere near a console or go into a jefferies tube aaand I get the feeling Star Trek left out the scenes where Bones is helping Kirk with his latest space-STD.

 

[RJ 17]

I'd like to be one of the guards at the door to the War Room on the Normandy in ME3.

I mean seriously, you wanna talk about a do-nothing job. I wrack my brain trying to figure out that age-old Office Space question of "What is it...that you DO here?" with regards to those two. They stand around talking all day, apparently making sure that Shepard isn't smuggling drugs and contraband in and out of the war room.

Seriously, you'd get to just hang out on the best ship in the Alliance fleet (arguably the galaxy), you get to see and meet some of the coolest and most important people in the galaxy, and really your job description is "Stand by the scanner and.....well...just stand by the scanner."

AND you get paid for it. I think it'd be a pretty sweet gig. :3

 

[RTR]

If I could be a Ghostbuster AND have a neuralizer, I'd be set.

Also, most awkward ending ever.

 

[leviadragon99]

Yeah, I don't know quite how to react to that "pizza boy in a porno" final line either...

 

[Kapol]

Meh. I think I'd rather just heckle movies with my robot pals.

Sadly being torture is not a job. It's a calling.

I dunno, the MST3K/Rifftrax guys likely earn some good money from watching some of the worst movies imaginable. Do you know how many times they likely had to watch The Room, Birdemic, Manos, the Twilight series, etc to get all those jokes? Plus, it's a real job, so it doesn't count for this arguement.

I'd have to say my favorite fictional job would be being a god. And notice how I said a god, not just god. I'd prefer there be other gods with the same level of power so I'm not just all alone as the most powerful being in creation.

 

[Redd the Sock]

Didn't Winston say he only made $11,500 a year? Even in 1984, that wasn't great pay. Then there's getting their asses sued for all the damage done (those weren't side jobs in Ghostbusters 2) leading me to think I need the cooler gadgets and the ability to flashy thing away all responsibility for whatever I destroy that the MIB delivers. Plus a 36 hour day might fit my natural sleep cycle.

 

[Milanezi]

I want to be a MIB agent Or a Blade Runner, nobody talks about the Blade Runners, ok, Blade Runners are cool but evidently not well paid. Forget it, I'll take the MIB job.

 

[JFSOCC]

Umm...how do you have this conversation without bringing up being a Starship Captain?...whether it's Galaxy class as in Star Trek, or Firefly class as in...you know.

QFT

 

[ObsidianJones_v1legacy]

It shouldn't even have been this close.

A.) They DID try to talk to Gozer the Gozerian and she was all like "FINGER LASERS" before Doctor Doom knew what was what.

B.) If the Ghostbusters DIDN'T stop Gozer the Gozerian, It would have destroyed the world. Vigo killed hundreds of his subjects back in his time, and now as a ghost AND powered with the Mood Slime, he wanted to take a baby, banish it's soul, and do it again in New York. Tell me that's not saving the world.

C.) Ghostbusters didn't not have fake ass old man wire-fu.

 

[Darth_Payn]

I'm as old as The Ghostbusters, so that's my pick for Best Sci-fi job. Glad it won!