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A Narrative Device especially common in film and TV, though not limited to them.
This is the job where a once-famous, successful, or admired character is "reduced to this!" More dire than a day job, this is a stereotypical last-resort job to which has-beens, people who got fired or laid off from their regular jobs, Impoverished Patricians, or Fallen Heroes have resorted, just to pay the bills. The Fallen on Hard Times Job is often the starting point for a protagonist's Redemption Quest, or attempt to chase after their Lifelong Dream (with accompanying Training Montage). It can also serve as a recruiting station for a Ragtag Band of Misfits or Putting the Band Back Together. Such jobs include:
Party organisers for actors (Party Down)
Hotel lounge musicians for musicians (The Blues Brothers)
Being a Street Musician for professional musicians who are laid off.
Dinner theater or background work for trained theater actors (Team America: World Police, Soapdish, Auto Focus)
Personal-injury work for lawyers (Erin Brockovich, Legal Affairs)
Cheesy ice capades shows for kids for figure skaters (Blades of Glory)
Circus sideshows for characters with unusual abilities or attributes (X-Men Origins: Wolverine)
Enforcer, Bouncer, or Dumb Muscle for boxers (On the Waterfront, Daredevil, Rocky)
Youth coach for athletes or former professional coaches (The Bad News Bears)
Rent-a-cop or mall security for police or secret agents (National Security)
Entertaining kids at birthday parties (Ghostbusters II)
Really any blue-collar work (taxi driver, cook, retail, fast food, etc) for various commando/spec ops military officers and immigrants whose merits (university degrees, positions, nobility) in their country are worthless in this country.
Ghost-writing or producing Extruded Book Product for down-on-their luck authors.
Hosting low-end talk shows for former news anchors or serious journalists
Scullery Maid for runaway Fairy Tale Princesses
Governess or nanny for Real Life Fallen Princess (Agnes Grey)
Stripper, phone-sex operator, prostitute, or other sex worker for a poor single mother.
Japandering
Appearing on D-List Reality TV shows and/or porn for a washed-up celebrity or Former Child Star.
Working at Burger Fool, a Soul-Sucking Retail Job, or some other menial position for people who have A Degree in Useless, or Tragic Dropouts.
Primary care, or becoming a Back-Alley Doctor or "wellness practitioner" for doctors who are disbarred or laid off.
Giving tours of the family chateau and its grounds for the Impoverished Patrician.
Golf instructor, ski instructor, or local fitness club tennis coach for former sports pros.
Delivery driver for former racecar drivers.
Compare Riches to Rags, which may culminate in this. Compare Former Regime Personnel, when a lot of secret policemen, commandos, spies, and similar people end up falling on hard times at once. They may work as mercenaries or bodyguards. The most common Fallen on Hard Times Job for them is mafia soldier or security mook. Also compare Worthless Foreign Degree, in which highly educated immigrants end up in menial jobs. A character who considers themselves Too Proud for Lowly Work might be forced to work one of these jobs as a form of karma.
Contrast Waiting for a Break which is about aspiring actors and film writers doing a day job as a server or barista whilst attempting to make it big. Also contrast Paying Their Dues, when a person has to take a non-glamorous role as their first step up the career ladder, on the way to success rather than on the way back from it. Can lead to a Scrap Heap Hero if the person is called back to duty. See also Loser Protagonist, Acceptable Targets.
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Lisa Marie Varon when she was wrestling as Tara in TNA, lost a Title vs Career match and disappeared for months, before returning as the sidekick of Madison Rayne. Madison alluded to Tara being reduced to working at "the lipstick counter" before she got her rehired.
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Maou from The Devil is a Part-Timer! used to be the king of demons until he was defeated by Emilia the Hero. Now he works part-time at MgRonalds and plans on working his way back up to the top of the food chain through the wage slave ladder. He also genuinely enjoys and is passionate about his work.
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Manga Soprano: In this story, Misato eventually resigned from the company on Alto's orders, not only for insulting his wife Kanade but for her slacking around and forcing her workload on the former. Furthermore, she was rejected by many other companies and ended up working at a snack bar.
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Sayuri and Mameha from Memoirs of a Geisha were both famous and respected geishas. They hit hard times when World War II erupted. Mameha had to rent out rooms while Sayuri became a farmer.
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In Dead Again, Robin Williams plays a former therapist who lost his license due to sleeping with patients and now works in a grocery store.
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Ghosted: Leroy Wright was the LAPD's best missing persons detective, now he's forced to work as a mall cop. Doctor Max Jenifer was a professor at Stanford and the leading theoretical physicist, who is forced to work as a sales clerk in a bookstore. They both initially agreed to work for the Bureau Underground because Captain Lafrey’s offers to get them their old jobs back.
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In Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators, Sebastian is a RADA-trained actor who is working as Frank's receptionist and secretary while keeping his acting dreams alive by appearing as a spear-carrier in plays and doing bit parts in commercials.
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A similar angle was worked years later when Shawn Michaels fell on hard times and wound up working for JBL.
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In Gilmore Girls, Emily Gilmore sees Lorelai running away from her privileged life as a teenager and working as a maid like this.
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Following photos of him working at a Trader Joe's going viral in 2018, actor Geoffrey Owens (Elvin on The Cosby Show) began getting roles after being "job shamed".
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When Soulsearchers and Company temporarily split up, Peterson earns money by exhibiting Stanley as a talking prairie dog and selling tickets.
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Arrow:
After his loaded father cuts him off, Tommy Merlyn, who previously didn't need to do anything to live by, seeks employment at Oliver's nightclub. He not only takes the job seriously but proves to be a very capable manager using his experience as a former partying playboy.
Felicity is an MIT graduate and isn't happy when Oliver promotes her as his assistant in season 2, as it ends up reducing her to a Girl Friday (or "Girl Wednesday"). In season 7, after Oliver is arrested, she ends up having to go into hiding by working at a coffee shop.
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In Erstwhile, Maid Maleen, All-Furs, and the prince in "Iron Hans".
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On Cheers, Carla's second husband got cut from the Boston Bruins and ended up wearing a penguin suit in the Ice Capades. (Eventually, a rogue Zamboni machine killed him.)
After being fired by the Lillian Corporation, and with her reputation as a businesswoman nuked thanks to her lover using her for insider trading, Rebecca gets a job as a demo room saleswoman, where she's treated shabbily, having to demonstrate unsafe products with no protection and no medical coverage. This job is so humiliating that going back to Cheers is still a step up from, as Woody puts it, "selling snake oil like a carnival geek".
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The Hobbit shows Thorin Oakenshield, Durin's heir, working as a blacksmith in the time between the razing of the kingdom and his quest to restore it.
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The titular Obi-Wan Kenobi is working a factory job (which seems to involve harvesting meat from a dead Kraytt dragon) ten years after the Jedi purge.
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The Simpsons:
Homer Simpson's job at the nuclear plant is actually this because it's the only job with a salary that is enough for a family with three children. His dream job was at the bowling alley.
In "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story", when Mr. Burns lost his fortune in an Absurdly High-Stakes Game to Rich Texan, he decided to start from zero. However, he felt he needed to work at Moe's in order to get up to zero.
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In The Way of the Househusband, a few former members of the Yakuza are forced to work in simple honest jobs after their crime groups were disbanded.
Torajiro, The Rival to Tatsu, was in prison when Tatsu wiped out his gang. He now sells crepes and bubble tea in a food truck after seeing everyone was gone.
Hibari Torii, former co-leader of the Torii Family, now works in a supermarket with three of her former subordinates.
Tatsu is the exception, as he willingly left the Yakuza life behind to become a House Husband and he's happy with his lot in life.
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On BrainDead (2016), the show opens with Laurel being talked into taking a job as constituent casework for her brother because funding for a documentary film she's been working on has fallen through.
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Terry Malloy from On the Waterfront was set to face off for a shot at being a contender for the heavyweight boxing title but he was convinced by his brother Charlie to take a dive because they needed the money. He has been a longshoreman ever since. When the mob kills Charlie, Terry steps up against them to show that he's not going to take a dive ever again.
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Whose Line Is It Anyway?: One skit had Drew Carey playing the new employee at an ice cream parlor. Ryan Stiles, playing the employee training him, comments something like "I used to watch both your shows. You should have saved some money."
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Frequently comes up on Heroes with characters whose involvement with superhuman abilities unknown to regular science and that sort of thing ruins their careers. Niki formerly had a better job at a casino but becomes a Single Mom Stripper after her husband goes to jail on felony charges under mysterious circumstances. Mohinder was a professor in India, but drives a taxi after coming to the States to investigate his father's bizarre murder. And when his telepathy does more harm than good in his law-enforcement career (so much for the Super Cop), Matt ends up being a bodyguard or security guard.
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In Expend4bles, after Lee Christmas gets fired from the Expendables for botching a mission and making Barney's (apparent) Heroic Sacrifice meaningless, he takes a job as a bodyguard for a social media influencer who turns out to be an obnoxious, misogynistic piece of trash. The job ends with Christmas giving the dumb kid a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown in the middle of his livestream after he crosses a line. Later in the film, we see some of Rahmat's goons watching the video, calling Christmas a hero for what he did and expressing a desire to meet him in real life.
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Gail Kim had to outright leave TNA in 2008 despite being a star and proven ratings draw - because she literally couldn't afford to be there. She signed a three-year contract with WWE solely for financial reasons - and spent those three years miserable and being misused, quitting four months before her contract expired.
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Stand Still, Stay Silent: Torbjörn and Siv Västerström are from a family that underwent a Riches to Rags episode some years ago. After this, Torbjörn got a job copying old books and got the idea for the expedition when he found out just how valuable the original texts were. Siv was working in an institute researching the Rash before joining him in his initiative, but it is unclear whether she got the job before or after the family's financial difficulties showed up.
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After losing his job when the WCW/ECW Alliance lost against the WWF at Survivor Series 2001, Lance Storm was shown working as a busboy in the WWF New York restaurant.
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Café Americain: In "Pilot", Holly follows an employment opportunity in Paris, but when the job falls through, she finds herself pursuing a waitress position at the Cafe Americain.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: The comic's version of "The grasshopper and the ant" has the usual moral subverted when the ant's job is outsourced to Asia and has to work as a cashier, while the grasshopper gets fame when it gets stepped on and the video goes viral. And the Asian ant's job is outsourced to an African ant, then to a Job-Stealing Robot.
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In Kill Bill, former international assassin Bud is working as a bouncer slash handyman at a perpetually deserted Texas strip club with the frustrated owner firing him when he points this out.
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Kris Pulaski, the protagonist of We Sold Our Souls, is working at a truly fleabag motel when the book starts.
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In Dead Rising 2 Chuck Green was once a star and a champion in the motor-cross circuit but has been reduced to slaughtering zombies on the controversial "Terror is Reality" in order to afford Zombrex, his daughter's expensive multi-dose anti-zombification medicine.
In Dead Rising 2: Off the Record, a Gaiden Game to the above, Frank West became a celebrity by selling his story of survival during the Willamette outbreak, and happily coasted on the fame, and money, it brought him. Several years later, he was alone, and the money disappeared leaving him in debt. To make ends meet, and keep buying the expensive Zombrex medication he needs, he participates on the controversial "Terror is Reality", being billed as the hero of Willamette.
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In Scrubs, Elliot leaves Sacred Heart for a better hospital on a research fellowship, only for the disease she was hired to study suddenly being cured. She is fired from her new job and, because she burned her bridges with Sacred Heart's higher-ups, is forced to take a job at a free clinic. She does manage to get back her job at S.H. when Dr. Kelso comes into her clinic to get treatment for an STD that he caught from his mistress.
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The Secret: After her husband gambled away her father's winery, Kate Caldwell began running a bakery out of her house with her eldest daughter’s help. However, this isn't enough to make ends meet (especially with her husband’s excessive gambling and boozing), so Kate ended up turning to sex work in secret.
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In The Spine of the World, the barbarian adventurer Wulfgar's post-traumatic stress disorder after spending a few years as a demon lord's prisoner causes him to lose his heart for adventuring. He becomes an alcoholic and takes a job as a bouncer at a seedy tavern in order to support his drinking habit.
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Catch Me If You Can: Frank Abagnale Sr. was quite a successful entrepreneur at one point, but by the start of the film, he's being scrutinized by the IRS for sketchy bookkeeping, likely tax evasion. First, he's forced to sell the old family home and downsize his store. The last time his son sees him, his business has gone under, as he's now a deliveryman for the US postal service.
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One episode of Rocko's Modern Life is about Rocko losing his job at the comic book store. One of the many jobs he took was as a phone sex operator. He eventually becomes a tow truck driver and he tows his ex-boss's car.
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In Supernatural Sam Winchester, a former Stanford student studying law, is seen clearing tables at a bar after he and Dean part ways in season 4. In later seasons the boys are separated again and Dean works construction, but that might be less of an example since he's a high school dropout who likes working with his hands. Still, you'd think a lifetime of monster hunting at the elite level would have some more transferable skills.
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King of the Hill:
In "Propane Boom", Hank Hill ended up working at Mega Lo Mart when he got laid off from Strickland when the aforementioned store briefly sold propane.
Subverted in "My Own Private Rodeo". Hank, Bill, and Boomhauer think this happened to Dale's estranged father Bug, finding him performing in a gay rodeo (though they originally didn't realize they were even at one) and when they do, they figure out that he's there because he's gay himself.
In "Three Coaches and a Bobby", Hank's old high school football coach is working at a sporting goods store after retiring from coaching. He seems to resent this because when Hank meets up with him and offers him to coach Bobby's middle school team, he angrily tells his coworker he quits. When Hank reminds him the job is voluntary, he retracts the statement.
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After Jack faked his death at the end of 24 season 4, he is working as a part-time (as in when work is available) oil pipeline worker.
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A strange invocation of this happens in Bakugan (2023). Two episodes in, Bakugan Brawls are declared illegal, and all the Bakugan have to get minimum wage jobs. We’re not making this up.
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In The AFR Universe, Ryuji ends up a Tragic Dropout after a year in college. He'd spend the next five years working in backbreaking part-time jobs just to help his mom get by in their apartment. What kills him the most about it, as he explains to Haru, is that he feels like he can't propose to Hifumi like he wants until he knows he can support them. Things do improve for him as Haru uses her connections and knowledge of higher society to introduce Ryjui to, and getting an interview for, Private Security.
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Roger & Me has many examples of unemployed people doing odd jobs.
Most famously, Rhonda Britton, who earns just enough money for groceries by selling rabbits for meat.
Some people are able to literally profit from Flint's decline, like U-Haul helping people move out.
Janet, who decides to become an Amway saleswoman and tries to help unemployed women do the same. Moore decides to help Janet out of a crisis by letting her do his colors.
Some autoworkers get jobs at Taco Bell, hoping to use their assembly line skills in the making of tacos.
Some autoworkers are retrained by the UAW as prison guards. Notably, many of the prisoners are their former co-workers.
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Nina Van Horn from Just Shoot Me! used to be a famous supermodel in the 70s but her career petered out. She was discovered by Jack Gallo modeling in a car show while dressed as a mermaid.
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In Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes episode "Strings", a major PR problem forces the Four to get actual jobs. Technically, only Susan's (children's entertainer) and Ben's (garbage man) might count. Two women cattily lampshade this, commenting on "how far she's fallen."
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Luke Cage (2016): Luke Cage used to be a cop in Savannah, Georgia, and before that, he was a soldier in the Marines. After being framed by Diamondback, sent to Seagate Prison, and receiving powers in a botched experiment, he escapes with Reva to New York City, where he initially works as a Hell's Kitchen bartender up until near the end of Jessica Jones (2015). After getting shot by Jessica to break Kilgrave's control over him, Luke starts his own show living in Harlem, getting paid under the table by working as a floor sweeper at Pop's Barbershop and a dishwasher at Harlem's Paradise.
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In Vengeance of Dawn, when we first see Breaking Dawn in the present, she's getting fired from her job at a clothing store. Most ponies probably wouldn't find this so bad, but Dawn, as a former student of Princess Celestia and ex-candidate for alicorn princesshood and the Element of Magic, considers it beneath her. Apparently she had to work several of these jobs after getting kicked out of the School for Gifted Unicorns, but couldn't hold on to any of them because of her pride.
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Batman: The Brave and the Bold: When Batman tracks down the members of the Doom Patrol in "The Last Patrol!", he finds Negative Man working as a sideshow freak in a seedy carnival.
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Knights of the Old Republic: Canderous Ordo was once a respected commander among the Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders. After his people lost the war, and Revan's forces strip the Mandos of all their armor and weaponry, he ends up cracking heads for the crime lord Davik on the backwater world of Taris. In the second game, he discusses this by pointing out to Kreia that he and his followers are clawing their way out of menial work and rebuilding the Mandalorian people. Kreia dismisses it, but the Expanded Universe shows Canderous as having the last laugh.
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Betty Boop, who has remained monochrome and forgotten over time, is working as a nightclub cigarette girl following the arrival of color cartoons.
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In "Iron Hans", the prince works first in the kitchen and then gets demoted to gardener.
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After closing the rifts at the end of Orcs Must Die! the War Mage inadvertently put himself out of work. Without invading Orcs to fight and his actions causing all the magic to go away and getting people mad at him, he's become a miner by the start of the sequel.
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In "The Brown Bear of the Green Glen", John works for the smith.
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Queen Sugar: During the pandemic, Ralph Angel works as a janitor in a nursing home because he can't harvest sugar cane without enough employees and Darla lost her job.
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Subverted with the protagonist's tutoring job in Melody. The protagonist isn’t keen on the job when it’s first offered to him, and takes it mainly to get away from Bethany, but he makes enough money to get by, and enjoys the town where the job is, and the people in it.
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Cop: The sleazy main character hooks up with a minor Hollywood actress whose roles have dried up and has had to resort to dealing drugs and prostituting herself to make ends meet.
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Ratchet & Clank (2002): Ratchet's last encounter with Qwark sees the ruined ex-hero shucking gadgets from a ramshackled stand on the sidewalk under the name "Steve". The Stinger after the credits shows Qwark in an infomercial.
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The Dark Brotherhood in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is a shadow of its former glory. Without a Listener to speak to the Night Mother and receive word of Black Sacraments, they're forced to rely on rumor and word of mouth to find contracts, and whatever work they can. The player character gets their attention by talking to a kid who'd performed a Sacrament and been ignored, taking the job in their place.
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In season 2 of My Name Is Earl, Earl had worked hard enough to have a decent job as an appliance salesman, an apartment, and a girlfriend. Then he took the rap for a crime his ex-wife committed, out of pity for her new husband and her two children. So he spent most of season 3 in Prison. When he finally gets out, no one will hire him since he now has a criminal record, and he has since lost the cushy job, the apartment, and the girlfriend. So he takes on a job as a take-out delivery man for a Chinese/Mexican restaurant and loses his faith in Karma.
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After their wrongful imprisonment, the paroled deputies of Reno 911!! have to make ends meet in various capacities, including security guard, realtor, carnie, bed & breakfast owner (in a bus), groupie, and American Idol hopeful.
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On Election, Tracy had an affair with her teacher Mr. Novotny, causing him to get fired and ruining his marriage. Near the end of the film, she wonders whatever happened to him and he is shown at a dead-end job in a grocery store.
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Spider-Man 3: After she is fired from Broadway, Mary Jane eventually resigns herself to working as a singing waitress as she struggles to find a job as an actress.
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The protagonist of Rounders drives a delivery truck for a living whenever he busts out and loses all his money playing poker.
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Revenge Films
"Wife thinks I'm an ATM and dumps me after I get fired": John's wife is forced to pay him alimony for her affair; she was eventually reduced to doing sex work to make ends meet years later.
"I was making $4500 a month... “That’s not enough� So I started working 6 days a week...": After Jack used the powers bestowed by him in the contract his lawyer made him sign to press charges on Jane and her parents for trespassing into his house and thus breaking said contract, Jane had to work a nightlife job to pay her debt, but her appearance started to decay to a point she desperately resorted to actual sex work.
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In "Catherine and Her Fate", Catherine goes through an entire series of jobs before she finds one abject enough that her Fate doesn't ruin it for her.
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On Schitt's Creek Johnny Rose is a formerly wealthy business mogul who loses his fortune at the start of the series. He decides to build himself back up and eventually becomes part-owner of the roadside motel where he and his family have been living. Unlike most examples, he throws himself into managing the place and gradually improves it, and he rarely if ever complains about the hard work. The series ends with him on the way back to restoring his fortune through a revamped and expanded motel business plan.
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Zombie Land Saga: At the beginning of Revenge, Franchouchou has had to pick up part-time jobs to pay for a massive amount of debt from their EFS concert.
Sakura and Tae tend to a dairy farm.
Saki works night shifts as a construction worker.
Ai works in a production line at a dried squid factory.
Junko paints ceramic dolls at a cultural center.
Yugiri works a night shift as a bartender.
Lily does the only job available to an 11-year-old-looking zombie and works as a milk deliverer.
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Batman Beyond episode "King's Ransom" has both Melanie and the Royal Flush Gang she left working this way. Melanie has a traditional hard-times job working food prep in a restaurant (though at least she’s living an honest life), while her family laments that they have to steal for hire instead of for themselves.
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One Big Finish Doctor Who radio play is set in an Alternate Universe where the Third Doctor (who is a thirty-something woman instead of a middle-aged man) is banished to the early 2000s rather than The '70s, so she can't join up with UNIT and instead is forced to take a shelf-stacker job at Tesco's.
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Life with Boys: In "Bathroom Battles with Boys", Jack takes on an embarrassing, and physically punishing, second job as a party clown to raise the extra money so Tess can have her own bathroom (and not have to share with her brothers). Tess feels incredibly guilty when she finds out.
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In Straight Outta Fangton, Peter Stone works as a convenience store clerk. This is despite the fact he's a former Iraqi veteran, security guard specialist, and oh yes, a vampire. Played with as it's discovered a lot of vampires have graveyard shift jobs as people don't hire them and only a few Vampires Are Rich.
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In the Stargate SG-1 episode "Mobius", a trip to the past by the main cast creates a timeline where the Stargate was never discovered. Alt!Daniel is reduced to teaching "English as a Second Language" courses while Alt!Carter is working in a civilian research company as a glorified proofreader for other people's work while having her own research plagiarized by her boss.
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Batman and Harley Quinn: Nightwing discovers the recently paroled Harley Quinn working as a waitress at a restaurant called Superbabes—basically Hooters, but with the servers dressed in skimpy superheroine/villainess costumes. Despite Harley's psychiatric background, no one would allow her back in the field and no one else was interested in employing a former supervillain. Aside from offers to do porn, Superbabes was her only option.
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In The Devil You Know by Mike Carey, professional exorcist Felix Castor works as a magician at a child's birthday party. This may be a Shout-Out to Ghostbusters II above.
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Ménage à 3 pulls a nice comedy variant with Zii, the determinedly cool "punk rock chick" who, lacking a band or any other source of income, takes a job as "counter candy" in a comics shop, being "ogled by geeks" as she herself later puts it. This even comes with its own version of the traditional humiliating uniform, as seen here.
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Sunshine Cleaning deconstructs this. Rose drags her sister into starting an impromptu business cleaning up crime scenes - because she needs the money to get her son into a private school. Although disgusted by the work at first, she soon finds enjoyment in it and comes to love it - especially when she realises that what she does benefits people.
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Fallout (2024); Once famous cowboy actor Cooper Howard is shown in the the prologue to be performing at kids' birthday parties just before the nuclear apocalypse happened, to cover "alimony" according to one of the parents watching him. It's implied that he was blacklisted as part of a new Red Scare for his knowledge of The Conspiracy by Vault-Tec to start the nuclear war themselves, since he had been snooping on his wife's board meetings and paling around with anti-Vault-Tec organizations.
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The Parable of the Prodigal Son from The Book of Luke has the wayward younger son becoming a swineherd after squandering his father's wealth. This is especially abhorrent, as the Jews consider swines unclean, and the fact that the young man was willing to lower himself to such a devastating extent for a bit of food and cash demonstrates how destitute he's become. Even after he decides to crawl back home, he only plans on asking for a job as a farmhand, because he knows he doesn't deserve to come back as a son.
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Ruby Pair: At the beginning of the story, when Zim encounters Tenn, she's working as a bar waitress on the planet Cyberflox to make ends meet after being declared a failure of an Invader and exiled from the Irken Empire.
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Marinette spends several years working as a waitress in The Seven Misfortunes of Lady Fortune. Luckily for her, Madame Zhou is too kind to force her into her main business.
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In Raging Bull (as well as Real Life), boxer Jake LaMotta ends up a seedy bar owner and stand-up comic.
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In A Pearl for My Mistress, which is set in 1934, Lady Lucy's family regards her journalistic occupation to be this. Lucy herself actually enjoys both the job itself and the independent income it allows her.
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One gag had the now grown-up Bam-Bam from The Flintstones become a taxi driver.
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In the flash-forwards of Better Call Saul, which take place after the finale of Breaking Bad, the main character Jimmy McGill is forced to go into hiding and assumes another identity. No longer the flashy criminal lawyer comfortably living high when he was Saul Goodman, "Gene" is a Cinnabon manager who mops floors and empties the trash. In the present timeline of the show, after being temporarily disbarred, Jimmy winds up working in a cell phone store for a full year. His frustrations at the mundanity of the job lead him to take a second, technically-legal-but-very-sketchy job of selling burner phones to petty criminals.
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In With Pearl and Ruby Glowing, Jasper was a parole officer before she was revealed to have raped Lapis, her sixteen-year-old parolee, and is now so desperate for a job that she'll take anything. The side-story Shard Times follows her attempts at applying for several jobs, only for every single business to understandably refuse to hire her due to her being convicted of statutory rape and ending up as a registered sex offender. Eventually she becomes a work-from-home website moderator, thanks to a dose of The Kindness of Strangers.
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In Peter Jackson's King Kong, entertainer Ann Darrow faces the prospect of becoming a burlesque chorus girl—in that day, pretty much one step above stripping.
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The Galaxy Quest cast were all typecast. They do appear in conventions and personal appearances but they have not done anything not Galaxy Quest related in years.
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Aggretsuko: After he's forced out of the company for refusing to fire employees as a cost-cutting measure in Season 4, Ton ends up working as a convenience store clerk to keep some money coming in. Retsuko eventually hires him to a more respectable position as her personal accountant once her "Aggretsuko" videos start taking off, and eventually he gets his old job back at the end of the season.
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In Marinette Dupain-Cheng's Spite Playlist, Gabrielle feels this way about her job at a small café. This is mainly because her family has paraded around their status as 'old money' for generations, but has effectively gone bankrupt, and is struggling to keep up appearances.
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The Han Solo Adventures: In the final book, Han is shaken to find out that his mentor "Trooper" Badure, a war veteran and piloting instructor turned adventurer, has been reduced to contract labor at a mining camp.
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Daughter for Dessert:
Saul cooking in the diner after getting fired from the liquidation company. However, instead of being bitter, he is grateful for the employment in the time when he is trying to find another job in law.
Possibly the case for Heidi (who sells her bar to break the cycle of long days every day just to barely get by) and Veronica (who founded a startup that eventually failed).
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In the Child Ballad The Famous Flower of Serving Men, the heroine pulls a Sweet Polly Oliver and works for the king, rising to the position of his chamberlain. (That is the servant in charge of his chamber. Still a very high status for a servant.)
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In Shaolin Soccer, the team's coach had suffered from a Career-Ending Injury in the beginning and is now working as an errand boy for his teammate, now chairman, who caused his injury. Also, the former Shaolin monks except one are working for a meager living.
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In the Frozen short Frozen Fever, following his failed attempt at taking over Arendelle, Hans is demoted to cleaning horse manure.
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Blades of Glory: After champion skaters Chazz Michael Michaels and Jimmy MacElroy are banned from Men's Singles skating for fighting on the winner's stand, they end up respectively as A) a drunk lurching his way through a children's skating show and B) a stockboy at a sporting-goods store.
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30 Rock: Tracey Jordan starts out as a once-popular A-lister whose continual eccentricities and other conflicts have branded him difficult to work with and he's reduced to starring in the Show Within a Show TGS, which in-universe is generally considered hacky and not that great. Later he has a brief career renaissance which is cut short once other A-listers realize he's a "TV Actor". Includes a meta-commentary on this by Jack Donaghy, played by Alec Baldwin, a former A-lister now better known for his TV work.
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When Lisa in Saved by the Bell spends too much money on her father's credit card, she gets a job as a waitress to pay the money back. Bear in mind that Lisa is a rich, prissy Daddy's Girl. Her father finds this Actually Pretty Funny when he finds out - and his punishment is for Lisa to keep working the job until she's paid the debts (at her own insistence).
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Gen V: The second episode of season 1 reveals that Adam Bourke, who had previously appeared in the second and third seasons of The Boys as the director of Dawn of the Seven, is in "director's jail" after he flashed Minka Kelly. The only work he can find is teaching "Acting for Auditions" at Godolkin University. He even mutters at one point, "How the fuck did I get here?"
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Hack features a disgraced police detective reduced to working as a cab driver. He still considers it preferable to serving as muscle for a local gangster.
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The premise of Hung. The recession has hit Ray hard and he is unable to make ends meet with his job as a substitute teacher. Prostitution ensues.
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In Rome, professional soldiers Vorenus and Pullo become thug enforcers after they are demobilized and without income. Eventually, they are required to actually kill people. Vorenus however draws the line at murder and quits.
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In "Fair Brow", the titular character was kicked out of his home by his father, and his wife paints to support them.
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In Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis, Roxis Rosencrantz, a descendant of a long line of famous alchemists, mentions in one scene that his father earned the money they lived on by playing cards, as despite their fame and history, his family hasn't produced a decent alchemist in more than a century.
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Korben Dallas in The Fifth Element starts out this way, being a former decorated soldier working a lousy job as a taxi driver.
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Baby Doll from Batman: The Animated Series was an actress turned supervillain. After being defeated by Batman and doing some jail time, she is next seen working as a hotel concierge. That is until an obnoxious tourist recognizes her.
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In Heat Guy J, Kia is a struggling musician, and to make ends meet, he usually waits tables or works other odd jobs. Also, Shogun used to be a big-time mob boss, but he had a Heel–Face Turn and mostly retired from that life, and he now sells pottery and non-perishable foods (such as rice). While it is just something to support himself plus Daisuke and Shun in their youth, he does genuinely enjoy it and it gives him a sense of purpose. He also moonlights as the leader of an underground vigilante group.
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In The Country Girl, Bernie is shocked to find out that Frank Elgin, once a highly successful big band singer, has been reduced to recording commercial jingles.
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In The Last Command, Sergius went from a Russian Grand Duke and army general to working as a Hollywood extra for $7.50 a day, thanks to Red October.
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Subverted in Man on the Moon. After achieving national fame on Taxi, Andy Kaufman (Jim Carrey) is seen bussing tables at a deli, while the show is still on the air. When people recognize him, he just tells them "I get that all the time." That was based on real life. Andy refused to quit his busboy job, in part because he never liked the show or his character and didn't want to be dependent on it.
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Daredevil (2015):
Narrowly avoided by Marci Stahl, as after blowing the whistle on Landman & Zack's dealings with Wilson Fisk, she manages to secure a job at Hogarth Chao & Benowitz.
We learn in "Penny and Dime" that Frank Castle was shot in the head, and "suits" conspired to have him declared deceased. Unfortunately for them, Frank woke up (after flatlining for a minute) and made the nurse assigned to him take him home. The guy lost his job, and subsequently, when Karen tracks him down, he's working as an office building janitor.
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Jon Gosselin (Jon & Kate Plus Eight) now works as a waiter in Pennsylvania.
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In Soapdish, Jeffrey Anderson (Kevin Kline) has sunk from a prominent daytime television role to performing as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman in a rundown Florida dinner theatre for an audience of uninterested senior citizens. Half of his audience is too hard of hearing to know what he's saying, the other half are too distracted to care. Montana Moorehead suffers the same fate at the end of the film, under his birth name Milton Moorehead.
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In "The Goose Girl", the goose girl is actually the true princess.
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IDOL × IDOL STORY!: Mimi Nagisa was once a talented idol whose career just never took off. She has resorted to working in a convenience store just to pay for her idol otaku lifestyle while lying to her family that she's seeking an office job she has no intention of actually getting (since that's less time to spend on idols). She continues this way until a younger idol she inspired shows up where she works and drags her out of retirement.
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On Set It Off, Frankie was a bank teller but she was fired after being suspected of being an accomplice in a robbery. She becomes a janitor like her friends. They are all so poor that their dream job is in a factory that has been closed down.
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In The Goodbye Girl, after Elliot's Richard III show closes after one disastrous performance, Elliot takes a job as a sidewalk barker outside a strip club.
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In Beerfest, the ragtag beer-drinking team recruits from their old college buddies: one's now a carny, and another's a street hustler.
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In the Italian fairy tale "The Devil's Breeches" -a "Bearskin" variant-, the impoverished hero tries to support himself working as a valet, but either the wife or sister of each master falls in love with him for his beauty, and he has to quit to avoid complications.
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Robot Chicken:
Some examples were seen in the "Where Are They Now" segments:
Prince Adam/He-Man from "Masters of the Universe" is a mall security cop.
Lion-O from "Thundercats" is an unemployed construction worker. He also worked as a male stripper. When asked about what happened, Lion-O reveals that after Mumm-Ra died of testicular cancer, there was no one left to fight and the Thundercats had to get real jobs.
Soundwave from "Transformers" works as a porta-potty.
Destro from "G.I. Joe" is a used car salesman.
COBRA Commander works on a shopping channel.
Jem from Jem and the Holograms now makes a living performing at birthday parties.
Mesogog from "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" works as the manager of a Wendy's.
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In I Can't Believe I Slept with You, Chiyo Kozuka, who quit her job at a game company after getting reassigned to general affairs, ends up taking a part-time job at a deli where she worked in high school. It's played with in that while this is not the job Chiyo wants, she's regained enough of her energy and confidence to work again, so the fact that she can do so is a sign of her recovery, rather than of desperation.
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The Blues Brothers: Jake and Elwood reassemble their old band from members who are currently making ends meet as lounge musicians and short-order cooks. Averted in the case of Mr. Fabulous, who had found a high-paying job as maître d′ at a fancy restaurant and was apparently very happy there. The rest of the band Jumped at the Call, but getting Mr. Fabulous back took a fair bit of work (and some judiciously applied blackmail).
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Kolya: Louka's offhand smartass remark to a bureaucrat got him fired from the orchestra. Now, he cadges work playing at funerals and moonlights as a restorer of gravestones, and is in debt, which is why he agrees to the marriage scheme. Lampshaded when the Bad Cop interrogating Kolya threatens to get him fired from the orchestra and leave him playing funerals, and the Good Cop passes him a note saying "HE DOES FUNERALS ALREADY."
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Cady, midway through Season 2 of Longmire, loses her job at the law firm, and ends up working at Henry's bar (much to Walt's disapproval).
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"The Rye or the Kaiser" is a parody of Eye of the Tiger where the boxer lost the big fight and wound up retiring to run a small deli.
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The Hand: After losing his hand and being dropped by his agent, cartoonist Jon Lansdale takes a job teaching cartooning at a remote community college, to a class of students who seem largely uninterested in the subject.
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The start of Ghostbusters II shows Ray and Winston using their ghost-fighting gear to (unsuccessfully) entertain children at a birthday party. Peter is hosting a hack-psychic show.
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Randy Daytona from Balls of Fury used to be a child ping-pong prodigy until he lost a big game in 1988. As a grown man, he makes a living as a ping-pong trick artist.
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In 19th- and early 20th-century Europe, the match seller was a stock "hard up" character. It was an especially popular depiction of impoverished WWI veterans, especially the wounded and disabled. Famous examples are The Little Match Girl and Otto Dix's painting The Match Seller.
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During the last year of WCW in 2000, Norman Smiley lost a match that cost him and Ralphus their jobs in WCW. In one segment, they were shown working as popcorn vendors at the arena.
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Derek Zoolander joins his father and brothers in the coal mines after he retired from modeling.
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In the Doctor Who story "The Brain of Morbius", Sarah Jane contemplates such a fate after being temporarily blinded. She hits upon selling flowers on the streets of London, briefly affecting a sickeningly sweet Cockney accent: "Luv'ly violets, guv'nor!"
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In Asterix, this has happened to the pirates a few times, usually as a consequence of the Gauls' sinking their ships:
At the end of Asterix and Cleopatra, it's revealed that the pirates are working as rowers on the galley taking Asterix's team back to Gaul.
In Asterix and the Cauldron, the pirates try their hand at running a restaurant. Unfortunately, Asterix and Obelix assume they are the thieves of the titular cauldron's money...
Midway through The Mansions of the Gods, it's revealed that the slaves who earned pay and freedom thanks to the Gauls' antics were none other than the pirates.
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The Magnificent Seven. Charles Bronson's character was once a highly-paid Bounty Hunter, but now works chopping wood so he's willing to accept the measly pay the villagers are offering. "Right now, that's a lot."
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Person of Interest
There was an episode where Team Machine had to help a taxi driver who used to be a famous baseball player in Cuba.
Team Machine took up day jobs in season 5 thanks to their funding getting cut by Samaritan. Finch became a teacher, Reese became a cop and Root has to constantly change jobs (usually involving her wearing embarrassing costumes).
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Blue Streak: A criminal version appears when Miles is shocked to find out that Tulley, an experienced getaway driver, has been reduced to sticking up convenience stores.
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The Wire:
Cedric Daniels was being groomed for command at the start of the series. He is Passed-Over Promotion after he exposed that several high officials were being bribed by the Barksdale gang. He is working in evidence storage by the next season.
Before his retirement in season 3, Bunny Colvin is demoted due to his Hamsterdam scheme so he does not get his pension. He works as head of security in a hotel at the start of season 4.
In season 5, budget cutbacks in the police department lead to decreased morale among the rank-and-file, though Burrell is able to lift it when he convinces Carcetti to lift the cap on secondary employment. Crutchfield, for instance, makes up his lost overtime by securing part-time work as a security guard at a jewelry store.
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In the mid-1990s, WWF did a storyline where Nikolai Volkoff fell on hard times and became an underling for "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase. Nikolai wore trunks with cent signs on the sides (a play on the $ signs DiBiase had on his) and "Property Of The Million Dollar Man" on the back.
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The Replacements:
Shane Falco was a top college football player until he suffered several concussions. He makes a living by scraping barnacles off boats at the start of the film.
Jamal and Andre Jackson could not continue their football careers because they did not know how to play without each other. They become bodyguards.
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In National Security, Hank becomes a security guard after being fired from the police force after he was accused of committing a hate crime. His "victim" Earl becomes his partner.
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In Ocean's Eleven, at the beginning of the movie, Rusty has resorted to teaching young actors how to play poker while Saul is attempting to retire and take up dog-racing, but both are clearly bored out of their minds.
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Pokémon: The Series: The Team Rocket trio usually resort to manual labor or running food/merchandise stands after failing each diabolical plot to capture Ash's Pikachu. Ironically, they're often way more successful doing honest work and would probably have better lives if they stopped bothering the main characters.
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One Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex episode revolves around a former boxer who's now an instructor (and who's also making some extra cash through espionage).
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Ant-Man's titular hero finds himself working at a Baskin-Robbins after getting released from prison - and even they fire him once they discover he's an ex-con (Baskin-Robbins always finds out). Then he ends up working as a thief for eccentric billionaire Hank Pym, thus starting his superhero career.
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Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island: Even though Fred and Daphne manage to find a decent job after Mystery Inc. split up (working as news show hosts), Shaggy and Scooby are both working as airport security where they get fired after eating contraband they were supposed to guard while Velma is working at a small bookstore that's close to going out of business.
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Veronica Mars:
After Veronica's mom walks off with her $50,000 bounty, Veronica makes some money as a barista.
Former popular girl Jackie also becomes a barista after her football legend father Terrence gets accused of murder. She's good at being a waitress. Too good. Because she's actually a love child who grew up with a poor mother in New York.
As for Terrence, he is proven innocent of murder but guilty of betting on his own games. He becomes a greeter at the casino he used to frequent.
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Mahabharata: The First ever examples are the jobs the Pandava princes and Draupadi are forced to take on during their one year spent incognito at King Viraat’s palace. After losing their kingdom, all their wealth, personal belongings, and pretty much everything except their armor and weapons in a dice game, the Pandavas and Draupadi spend twelve years living in the forest followed by a year spent in hiding under assumed identities. Yudhistir becomes a court advisor for King Viraat, Draupadi becomes the queen’s personal maid, Bhim becomes a cook, Nakul tends horses in the royal stable, Sahadev tends to the king’s cows, and Arjun, who also has to endure a year of impotence, slaps on the Manscara and becomes a teacher of music and dance.
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Manga-Waido:
Defied in The girl at school kept screwing up and then here's what happened next...: After being rejected by many companies she applied to work for, Mari begged the hotel that fired her to hire her back, only to be rejected. Moreover, not even the nightlife business wants her as the customers and employees realized what kind of person she was.
Here's what happened when my brother's fiance asked me to not go to the wedding...: After Seiya gets called out through a letter from his boss in the middle of his wedding for making fun of his brother, Satoshi (who works at the company that is business partners with the CEO's company and who the CEO has really high opinion of) for being a high school graduate and for working at a factory, he is later forced to quit his job and ironically ends up working at a factory while his wife leeches money off of him.
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This is part of the main premise of The Steve Harvey Show. Steve Hightower is a former disco singer who is now a high school music teacher.
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On The Cutting Edge, Doug was an Olympic-level ice hockey player until he suffered an eye injury which ended his career. Two years later, he is working in a factory and playing for the D-Leagues on the side.
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In Chalet Girl, Kim was a skateboarding champion, but she had to quit her career to help her dad at home and works as a Burger Fool at the start of the movie.
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I've Got You Under My Skin:
Alison aspired to become a doctor and was smart enough to get into medical school, but she couldn't afford to pay for her studies unless she took on a lot of debt (with Betsy having ensured she lost out on a scholarship that would've covered this). She instead took night classes to become a pharmacist and now runs her own pharmacy (which originally belonged to her husband's elderly cousin), with her disabled husband doing what he can to help.
Nina wanted to become an actress and had aspirations to go to Hollywood, but her career never really took off and she's now stuck mostly working as an extra.
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Wealthy socialite Caroline becoming a waitress 2 Broke Girls. Played with in that the series begins with her taking that job after her father's arrest cost her her access to the family fortune.
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In Rehearsal for Murder, Frank Heller mentions having waited tables, worked in construction, and driven cabs between acting gigs.
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In The Kite Runner, most of the Afghans who made it to America were from well-off or even noble families (escaping a war-torn zone and getting a visa has its cost). Since their degrees or merits have no value in the U.S., most of them work in blue-collar jobs. Amir's father goes from tycoon to gas station worker (but eventually becomes the director) while his father-in-law is too proud to work and lives on state aid money and what he earns from the flea market.
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Some Family Guy cutaway gags did these:
One gag had the now grown-up Bam-Bam from The Flintstones become a taxi driver.
Another has Jem from Jem and the Holograms performing at a child's birthday party.
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In American Mary, medical student Mary is reduced to applying for a job as a masseuse at a sleazy strip club to pay off her debts. However, during her 'interview', a medical emergency arises that opens up a whole new career path for her.
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In Sing, the dilapidated Moon Theater collapses following years of neglect, as a result of its owner, Buster Moon, mounting a series of flops, the property is repossessed by the bank, and Moon has to resort to washing cars.
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In Breaking Bad, Walter White starts the series working as a high school chemistry teacher. We learn over the course of the series that he was a co-founder of a multi-billion dollar company which he left over an imagined slight from his partners, and then he worked for a government laboratory before he left that position as well for never-revealed reasons. Now he makes only $45,000 a year, so he also has to take a second job at a car wash.
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A variation in Charmed's Season 6. Paige decides to find herself, so she goes to loads of temp jobs. These end up being annoying jobs such as dog walking, fruit packing in a factory, secretary to a sleazy businessman, etc. She usually finds a magical purpose in them, however.
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In The Muppets (2011), Fozzie is stuck playing in a Muppets cover band.
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In Dead Rising 2: Off the Record, a Gaiden Game to the above, Frank West became a celebrity by selling his story of survival during the Willamette outbreak, and happily coasted on the fame, and money, it brought him. Several years later, he was alone, and the money disappeared leaving him in debt. To make ends meet, and keep buying the expensive Zombrex medication he needs, he participates on the controversial "Terror is Reality", being billed as the hero of Willamette.
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Frasier: Bulldog Briscoe gets fired from KACL at the end of season six after the ratings on his show drop too low. By his next appearance in the following season, he's living at the YMCA and delivering pizzas to make ends meet. He gladly accepts Roz's offer to take over as her new babysitter. Later seasons see him back at KACL but working in the storage areas hauling boxes.
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Friends:
Monica had to become a waitress at a 1950s-themed diner.
Rachel used to have her own department in season 4 until the company downsized and she was demoted to helping customers try on clothes.
Being an actor, Joey is used to having these. The most notable was when he went to Nevada to star in a movie only to find that it ran out of money. He had to get a job as a greeter at Caesar's Palace so he could get enough money to go back to New York.
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Cold Case:
Roy Minard from "Hubris" was an Ivy League art history professor until he was accused of murdering one of his students, who was also his lover, causing him to be fired in disgrace. In the present, he teaches English as a second language.
Carlo from "It's Raining Men" used to get by on his looks and a string of sugar daddies. In the present day, he works in a pet store.
Subverted in "Superstar". Fritz used to be a prospective top tennis player in college until he was accused of murder. He became an instructor and his old classmates are glad he never made it. He indicated, however, that he likes being an instructor because he can pick up women. He never took tennis seriously at all.
"Kensington" is about a bunch of textile mill workers who lost their jobs. The victim Joe became a constable who drove people from their homes when they can't pay rent. Ham became a butcher. Monty became a telephone linesman, even though he is too old.
Audrey, the victim in "World's End", mentions a neighbor of hers who is reduced to selling apples due to the Great Depression.
Lindsay, the victim in "Schadenfreude", was the wife of a rich surgeon. After one of his patients died on the operating table, the legal fees bankrupted them and Lindsay was forced to work sweeping floors of the hair salon she frequented.
Evan from "Breaking News" worked at Shaw Plastics but was fired for failing a drug test (he was taking Percocet). He was told by the victim, reporter Jane Everett, that he, his late wife, and other Shaw employees were getting sick from asbestos exposure. She promised to break the story but she was murdered. Years later, Evan is living in a trailer, working as a janitor, and dying of cancer.
Ray Takahashi from "Family 8018" used to own his own grocery store until he and his family were interred during World War II. After the war, he is reduced to selling produce on the street.
Anil from "A Dollar, A Dream" used to own his grocery store but he lost it after INS found out that he let illegal immigrants do odd jobs around the store. He works in a restaurant called "Zippy's" (where he has to wear an embarrassing uniform) in the present day.
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 Ricki and the Flash / int_d67e900a
type
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 Riffraff / int_d67e900a
type
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 Rocky / int_d67e900a
type
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 Rocky V / int_d67e900a
type
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 Rounders / int_d67e900a
type
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 See You Up There / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Set It Off (1996) / int_d67e900a
type
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 Ships with Wings / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Sinister / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Skammen / int_d67e900a
type
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 Soapdish / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Southpaw / int_d67e900a
type
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 Spider-Man 3 / int_d67e900a
type
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 Team America: World Police / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Ted 2 / int_d67e900a
type
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 That's My Boy / int_d67e900a
type
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 The Accidental Tourist / int_d67e900a
type
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 The Bad News Bears / int_d67e900a
type
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 The Blues Brothers / int_d67e900a
type
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 The Company Men / int_d67e900a
type
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 The First Wives Club / int_d67e900a
type
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 The Fisher King / int_d67e900a
type
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 The Goodbye Girl / int_d67e900a
type
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 The Last Command / int_d67e900a
type
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 The League of Gentlemen / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 The Light Across the Street / int_d67e900a
type
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 The Love Bug / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 The Magnificent Seven (1960) / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 The Muppets (2011) / int_d67e900a
type
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 The Night of the Iguana / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 The Night Porter / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 The Raffle / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 The Winning Team / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 The Wrestler / int_d67e900a
type
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 Tickle Me / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 20 Feet from Stardom / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Who Framed Roger Rabbit / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Zack and Miri Make a Porno / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 A Visit from the Goon Squad / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Catherine and Her Fate / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Discworld / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Fair Brow / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Iron Hans / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Ironweed / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Jacques McKeown / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Jacques Mc Kweon / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 King Goldenlocks / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Moving Pictures (Discworld) / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Straight Outta Fangton / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 The Abyss / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 The Damned United / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 The Goose Girl / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 The Han Solo Adventures / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 The Little Match Girl / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 The Lord of Lorn and the False Steward / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 The Mage Will Master Magic Efficiently in His Second Life / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 The Unbearable Lightness of Being / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Boku Dake Ga Inai Machi (Manga)
seeAlso
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 I Can't Believe I Slept with You (Manga) / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 IDOL × IDOL STORY! (Manga) / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Little Witch Academia (Keisuke Sato) (Manga) / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 The Way of the Househusband (Manga) / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Les 2 Minutes du Peuple (Radio) / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Boardwalk Empire / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Cheers / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Feud / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Ghosted / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Hung / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 iZombie / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Impeachment / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Jane the Virgin / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Longmire / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Lupin (2021) / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Maigret (2016) / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Melrose Place / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 OCTB / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Queen Sugar / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Rumbata, Ronaldo and I / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Schitt's Creek / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Silicon Valley / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Square One TV / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 The League of Gentlemen / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 The Naked Director / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 The Steve Harvey Show / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 The Wayans Bros. / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 The Windsors / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Tucker / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 2 Broke Girls / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Veronica Mars / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Young & Hungry / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 The Great White Hope (Theatre) / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Anthem (2019) (Video Game) / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Dead Rising 2: Off the Record (Video Game) / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Ratchet & Clank (2002) (Video Game) / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Daughter for Dessert (Visual Novel) / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Melody (Visual Novel) / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Drawga (Web Video) / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Erstwhile (Webcomic) / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Reunion (2021) (Webcomic) / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Batman and Harley Quinn / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Batman: The Brave and the Bold / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Frozen Fever / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Sing / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 The Secret of the Magic Potion / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 Identity Crisis (Comic Book) / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
 The Country Girl / int_d67e900a
type
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job