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If the character is a teen, expect them to work at [[Burger Fool|a crappy fast food joint]], [[Suck E. Cheese's|a kiddie arcade/pizza place for snot-nosed brats and their parents celebrating their birthdays]], or in [[Super Slave Market|retail hell]] (bonus points if it's an Expy of WalMart).
If ''every'' episode is a New Job Episode, that's [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]]
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Karin]]'' / ''[[Chibi Vampire]]'': Fumio Usui, Kenta's mother, in addition to being a [[Hot Shounen Mom]], suffers from this. Of course, half the time the fault is being a Hot Shonen Mom.
* ''[[
* ''[[Hot Gimmick]]'' : Shinogu Narita somehow manages to have a job in ''every single place'' his sister Hatsumi goes with Ryoki.
* ''[[Panty
== Comic Books ==
* [[Donald Duck]]. However, his boss is usually his uncle.
*
▲== Fan Fic ==
▲* [[Script Fic]] ''[[Calvin and Hobbes The Series (Fanfic)|Calvin and Hobbes The Series]]'' has its protagonist trying out for several jobs in "Help Wanted", though he's too young for most of them.
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** [[Butt Monkey|Xander]] having a different job every episode was a running gag throughout season 4, although he eventually settled into construction, which lasted several seasons (and came in handy a few times).
* ''[[Drake and Josh]]'': The stepbrothers temporarily get jobs at a fish packaging plant in an homage to ''[[I Love Lucy]]'''s candy factory episode.
* Lizzie's job as a waitress in ''[[Lizzie
* One episode of ''[[Clarissa Explains It All]]'' had the main character get a different after school job for ''every day of the week'', which quickly burned her out after a while.
* Averted in ''[[Sister, Sister]]'' in the fifth season, when Tia (and only Tia) gets a job at a bookstore...and keeps it. Even though the very next episode involves a [[Twin Switch]] that nearly gets her fired.
* Matthew in ''[[News Radio]]'' quits the radio station and ends up working at the coffee shop downstairs (but only for one day).
* On ''[[Friends]]'', Joey has held several temporary jobs, including working at Chandler's office, Monica's restaurant, Ross's museum and even Central Perk (this one even lasted more than one episode).
* Every Bundy (even Peg's never-seen mother) has one on [[Married...
** While not the main plotline, one episode has Jefferson working his first day at a car wash when Steve Rhoades makes a return appearance as a chauffeur.
* Happened on ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'' a couple of times, with a couple of the kids. Peter got a job in a bike shop briefly in one, and Greg briefly worked for his dad at the architect firm, as a delivery boy.
* A [[Running Gag]] of the TV show ''[[Austin & Ally]]'' has Trish getting a job at some random place in town in the beginning of the episode and losing it by the end. One of her catchphrases is even a variation of "Guess who got a job at the ____ store/restaurant?" saying it upon walking into the music store. Most of the time she loses it by the end of the episode, though she has occasionally held a job for a couple episodes in a row and then fired.
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' has a number of episodes of this type, with Peter starting some business or getting on with some scam. However, unlike a lot of shows, Peter's regular job is subject to periodic change; some of these seemingly one-shot job episodes, around season openers mostly, have stuck for years, so it's sometimes not completely obvious until the end of the episode whether he'll go back to his old job, stay at the new one, or be unemployed again and need to seek a job in later stories.
* ''[[The Simpsons (
** "Homer's Enemy", wherein hardworking Frank Grimes, who has had to struggle his way through life, learns that incurably lazy Homer has, among other accomplishments, met ex-President Gerald Ford, toured with a rock group, and been to outer space:
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'''Homer''': Yep. That's me. And the man standing next to me is former President Gerald Ford. And that's me on tour with [[
'''Grimes''': You... Went into outer space? You?
'''Homer''': Sure. You've never been? Want to see my Grammy Award? }}
** "Papa's Got a Brand-New Badge", where the list is long enough that Marge manages to get completely ready for bed (including putting rolls in her 3 feet of hair) before it's over. The quote: "I've had a lot of jobs in my life: boxer, mascot, astronaut, baby proofer, imitation Krusty, truck driver, hippie, plow driver, food critic, conceptual artist, grease salesman, carny, mayor, grifter, bodyguard for the mayor, country western manager, garbage commissioner, mountain climber, farmer, inventor, Smithers, Poochie, celebrity assistant, power plant worker, fortune cookie writer, beer baron, Kwik-E-Mart clerk, homophobe, and missionary, but protecting people, that gives me the best feeling of all."
** That quote doesn't even list a few others he's been: He's also served in the military in both the Army and Navy Reserve and he's also been a fast food employee, a spring salesman, a snake oil salesman (together with Grandpa), a monorail engineer, a community safety watchdog, a community college teacher, an chiropractor, an employee for a mini-golf place, a fisherman, an organic juice maker, a mall Santa, a bounty hunter, an extortionist (collecting money for Fat Tony), webmaster (as "Mr. X"), an ice-cream man, a volunteer fireman, pilot, safety technician, a police informant (more than once), a blackjack dealer, and he worked at Praiseland (a separate instance from when he was a carny at a regular carnival). Not technically jobs include leader of a [[Brotherhood of Funny Hats]], and a vigilante (both in the pastry wielding and standard gun wielding variety)
* ''[[Teen Titans (
* ''[[Kim Possible]]'': Played straight and subverted. In the Season 1 episode "Bueno Nacho," Kim gets a job to buy a new jacket and pulls Ron in with her. Despite Ron's success at the job, both have quit/lost their job by the end of the episode. In Season 4, "The Big Job" provides subversion and playing it straight as both Kim and Ron try to find jobs. Kim finds one at Club Banana relatively easy, but Ron spends the whole episode finding and losing strange jobs until being employed by Smarty Mart. Both of these jobs would last through the season and even be mentioned, have characters seen working there, or have episodic plots relating to them.
* ''[[
* ''[[Daria]]'' features an episode where the titular character works at a shop dispensing nuts.
* On ''[[Mission Hill]]'', a two-part episode details the closing of the waterbed store where Andy worked and his eventual hiring by Jim at an advertising agency.
* Happens frequently to Timmy's Dad on ''[[The Fairly
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