The easiest and/or hardest jobs in fictional lands

Scott Stein,
  • Oceania fact checker
  • Omelas daycare worker
  • Arrakis meteorologist
  • Westeros coffin builder
  • Middle-earth hobbit-shoe sales
  • Flatland cubist painter
  • Wonderland pharmacist
  • Island of Sodor train robber
  • Wakanda tech startup founder
  • Land of Oz apple picker
  • Panem all-you-can-eat-buffet manager
  • Narnia rabbi
  • Brobdingnag plumber
  • Alderaan insurance adjuster

 

Scott Stein

Scott Stein's most recent novels are The Great American Deception, which received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, and The Great American Betrayal, which Vulture.com named one of "The Best Comedy Books of 2022." His older novels are Lost and Mean Martin Manning and his short satire and fiction have been published in The Oxford University Press Humor Reader, McSweeney's,The G.W. Review, Points in Case, Liberty, National Review, and Art Times. He is a professor of English at Drexel University. His author site is scottsteinonline.com and you can find him on Bluesky at sstein.bsky.social.
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