To explain the title, let me tell you about the two roommates that I had for a year. Both were from South of the Mason-Dixon line and absolutely hilarious. I still live with one of them. The other one, sadly, has returned to Texas. All three of us were Star Wars, Terry Pratchett, Lord of the Rings, Gail Carson Levine, Harry Potter, NCIS, etc. fans.

Well, it was a struggle to get the Texan to join the 'cult' as she fondly referred to the Provo, UT Fanforce. We had activities almost every month and were friends with people in the PUFF outside of the regular activities, so she was regularly exposed to our ways. Maybe that's WHY she resisted.

Anyway, so we finally got her to come to an activity in which we sat around and did a drinking game (with soda and juice) to A New Hope. We also MST3Ked it as the need arose and had lots of fun.

Well, in the middle of this activity, said roommate looked thoughtful in the middle of the cantina scene and then remarked how much it would suck to be the busboy in Mos Eisley who had to clean up after people like Obi-Wan Kenobi and Han Solo.

The idea caught on and we eventually wrote "Tales of a Galactic Busboy" about that haples Mos Eisley busboy who kept being haunted at every job by this whiny punk named Luke Skywalker.

Anyway, that got me to thinking today about what other menial jobs would there be around the GFFA. Around here, the standard torture is the call center, because there are more flexible hours and if you're willing to be called Satan 10 times a day, it pays well.

Would there be such a thing as telemarketing in the GFFA? I think they could have a great market for selling better hypercomm service or smaller thermal exhaust ports to supreme dictators. They could take surveys on whether or not they were happy with their speeder insurance. They could do tech support for all new datapads and such.

On the other hand, there is the traditional horror of fast food restaurants. We know of at least one--in the Jedi Academy Trilogy, Leia recalls having given Han a statue that turned out to be the Corellian equivalent of Ronald McDonald. On the other hand, the dish "bantha burger" and "jawa juice" just screams "Do you want Figrin Fries with that?"

I don't think there's much of a chance for 'door-to-door salesmen.' It's not worth it to spend that many credits on fuel and speeder maintenance on the chance that you might get to sell some of your Encyclopedia Galacticas or security systems. Plus, the chance for a language barrier is even more potent than it would be in our galaxy.

So, what exactly would be a starter job in the GFFA? What would you work if you were an Imperial Academy dropout or a starving student?

Thoughts?