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Your Character and You: Profession Cab Driver

Let's talk about an awesome job for your character since, at least in most realities, a job is what your character may end up spending half of her waking hours doing.

For today's adventure into the world of gainful employment for your character, let's take a trip on the wild side. Here's your shield, your map, and your wheels because today, we're going to talk about the exciting and dangerous life of the cab driver.

Wait, where are you going? No, wait a second, hear me out!

First of all, it's a job with a lot of freedom which is very important whether you're hunting vampires and have to have the free time to plan elaborate assaults on their lair or you are a vampire and can't take a job from say, four in the morning to seven or eight at night depending on the time of year. How free? Well, in most cities cab drivers are independent contractors renting services from the cab company they work with. That might mean the cab itself as well as the insurance on it, though some cab drivers do own their own. The cab can be rented, depending on the company, by the night or week and so there may be some up front cost, the ability to make your own hours can be quite convenient to a character who, let's face it, should be doing more exciting things than driving drunk people around after happy hour.

Or do they? Cab drivers are, in a lot of ways, part of the invisible servant class in many places (at least in the US.) The wealthy or otherwise haughty tend to think less of the cab driver and more of the means of getting where they're headed. Think of the opportunities, from planning burglaries, stalking targets, spying, or even working protection jobs. Playing a supernatural game? What better way to patrol a territory as a werewolf? Or what about feeding as a vampire? Who wouldn't love an endless line of easy prey coming to you, getting into your dark car, doing pretty much all the work for you. Not to mention having a readily available, stealthy way to leave a crime scene? The character and her companions hop in a cab and quickly pull into normal daytime traffic to blend in with a hundred other cabs apparently just like it.