Ankh-Morpork Job Market

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The job market in Ankh-Morpork offers a variety of jobs, as per of the Patrician's Jobbes Program, as well as other services.

A Cafe sells various drinks and food in the northeast corner. It also holds Green Slab and AM Daily paper boxes. There's a lounge just south of it.

The northwest corner has an equipment shop that sells supplies that are often useful for jobs.

The southwest corner has a clothes shop, helpful for some jobs.

How the jobs work

In the room of the job giver you can "list" the jobs, "browse" a job, "apply for" a job and "collect".

Most jobs require you to get one or more items, go somewhere and do something, then return to the job giver to collect money and get awards.

The tougher jobs give more experience and money, but require having done other jobs first to apply for them. Also medium and hard jobs require skills to complete and money to purchase objects, although the cost is reimbursed at the end of the job.

All jobs have a deadline, you need to complete them before the time is over and you automatically get notified if you go over the deadline. There is no need to report back to the job market to collect your money before the deadline though.

Not all jobs are available all the time. When someone applies for a job it will be unavailable for some time that varies depending on the job.

For jobs which requires delivering items, you can ask Mr. Founder where to find an item written on your writ. He wanders in the job market.

sayto Founder where find silver ring

See below for job info and help from inside the game with more details.

Map

You read the map of the Job Market:

     God Street
 _ _    _|_    _ _
| E |__| F |__| C |    F  - Foyer/Entrance
|_S_|  |_ _|  |_C_|    CC - Corner Cafe
  |  \/  |  \/  |      CS - Clothing Shoppe
 _|_ /\ _|_ /\ _|_     CL - Cafe Lounge
| C |__| J |__| C |    ES - Equipment Shoppe
|_S_|  |_C_|  |_L_|    JC - Jobbes Programme Centre (Mr. Werks)
         |             JM - Job Market Management Office (Mr. Keeble)
        _|_       
       | J |      
       |_M_|      

Basic Jobs

Advertising Manager
Are you good with people, enthusiastic and keen on working in a flexible, ethnically diverse and fast-paced work environment?  Then we have the perfect job opportunity for you! To do this job, you will be provided with a state-of-the-art sandwich board and be required to advertise our business.

You need to advertise to a number of people while wearing the board. In some streets you get a message that the area is already well advertised, advertising there probably doesn't count.

Time available: 0:50 h (but only 0:10 h once you actually report for work). Reward: 24000 XP and &&&&&&&&&&&+4800 A$12.


Thirst Quencher
This job requires you to fetch a drink for someone in need.

Time available: 0:05 h. Reward: 1600 XP and A$1.

Dog Walker
Many of the wealthier citizens of Ankh-Morpork (in particular Ankh) own dogs, but do not have the time, or will, to let them out themselves.  Your job will be to accompany a dog while it does its thing.  Don't worry about not being good with animals; these dogs are generally very tame.

Pay attention to the dog. Keep the streets clean! You might want to wash up afterwards.

Errand Boy (m/f)
Here in the job market we regularly have requests to deliver working clothes and tools to customers in Ankh-Morpork who are too busy to come to us.  This will be your job.

You have to deliver just one item from the nearby shop to some place in Ankh-Morpork.

Time available: 2:40 h. Reward: 6400 XP and &&&&&&&&&&&+1280 A$3.20.

Medium Jobs

Delivery Lackey
The job market runs a delivery service, where customers request items to be brought to them.  Your job will be to acquire an item and deliver it to one of our customers.  The items are all for sale in Ankh-Morpork, and not too expensive; afterwards, you will be reimbursed for the costs incurred.
Delivery Runner
The job market runs a delivery service, where customers request items to be brought to them.  Your job will be to acquire a number of items and deliver these to some of our customers.  The items are all for sale in Ankh-Morpork, and not too expensive; afterwards, you will be reimbursed for the costs incurred.

Note: since this is a responsible job, you must have some experience with delivery runs to apply.  Preferably you should have successfully done "Delivery Lackey" a number of times, although "Errand Boy" and "Thirst Quencher" also count towards your record.

You have to deliver 4 types of item (with likely at least one type needing 2 items) from various places in Ankh-Morpork each to its own destination in Ankh-Morpork. If an item is too heavy you can drag it and deliver it from the ground.

The reward is 57600 XP and &&&&&&&&&&+12000 A$30.

Helpful Seamstress
Sometimes items get damaged in the handling, and need to be repaired before they can be sold.  This will be your task.  You will be given a number of items to mend, and you should do your work in the shop.

Note: since the client must trust you to handle several of their items, this job is only given to employees who have earned their first medal for the Job Market.

Bring your own mending needle and thread spools.

You'll need enough thread to mend 9 to 11 items of clothing.

To avoid confusion, it's possible to get and mend each item until it says it's as good as new and then return it to the owner before picking up the next one.

The reward is 25200 XP and &&&&&&&&&&&+5200 A$13.

Sett Maker
Stephen Jobbes, a vendor in the Job Market, requires delivery of paving setts to resell in his shop.  Your job will be to gather natural mineral rocks and shape them into setts and deliver these to Stephen Jobbes.

Shaping stones or rocks into setts requires some crafts.arts.sculpture skills. A 180 bonus seems to be enough to succeed often, sometimes producing a symmetrical or well-formed sett. 137 was enough to produce roughly rectangular setts most of the time.

Setts can be crafted from rocks or stones made of flint, limestone, rosy-quartz and cinnabar.

Setts cannot be made from pebbles (too small) or from rocks or stones that are (and can be referred to as) coals, slates, chalks (too soft).

Street Fixer
Due to wear and tear on the roads, there are always places in Ankh-Morpork where the street needs fixing.  Your job will be to lay a number of cobbles on a broken piece of street.  You will need some designing skills to do this properly.

This requires some crafts.arts.design skills. You only need to repair one location for this job, with an amount of cobbles or setts that's mentioned on the writ.

The reward is 19200 XP and &&&&&&&&&&&+3800 A$9.50.

Full-time Street Repairer
Due to wear and tear on the roads, there are always places in Ankh-Morpork where the street needs fixing.  We are looking for someone who is willing to visit a number of these places in one go, and repair them.  A minor bit of expertise is expected, since, in some places, the cobbles are laid out in a particular pattern, which should be respected.

Note: in this job, you are assigned several streets, so we prefer employees who aren't going to mess this up.  To apply, you must therefore have proven yourself with single street repairs (Street Fixer) a number of times.

The list comprises of six locations around AM, with two to four cobbles or setts each to be replaced.

Hard Jobs

Expert Repairman (m/f)
Due to wear and tear on the roads, there are always places in Ankh-Morpork where the street needs fixing.  In some places, this takes a lot of skill to repair, because of the way the patterns in the road are laid out.  Most of our employees are not so skilled, so if you accept this job, you will be responsible for the reparation of a large number of streets.

Note: as this job requires significant skill and a good work ethic, we only accept applications from experienced workers.  Preferably, you have done "Full-time Street Repairer" a number of times, although "Street Fixer" also counts towards your record.

You need to repair the street in 10 locations around AM, each requiring replacement of two to five cobbles or setts.

The xp and money you get is dependent on how good you do your job. You can see how well you have done by the message you get after placing each sett or cobble:

You finish placing the sett and step back to look at your work.

You finish placing the sett and step back to look at your sketchy work.

You finish placing the sett and step back to look at your shoddy work.

You finish placing the sett and step back to look at your faulty work.

With a bonus in crafts.art.design of a little over 200 you can expect 40-80k xp and A$15-25.

With around 250 bonus this should go up to 100-160k xp and A$35-50. The maximum reward is 188000 XP and &&&&&&&&&&+38000 A$95 (so far).

Deliverer of Rare Items
The job market runs a delivery service, where customers request items to be brought to them.  Sometimes these items are of a certain nature that makes them hard to find in shops.  Your job will be to find such an item and bring it to the customer.  Be prepared to employ arcane arts to travel, and to negotiate directly with people rather than buying the item in a shop.

Note: since this job requires both some know-how of the world and persuasiveness in acquiring the items, you must have significant experience with delivery runs to apply.  Preferably you should have successfully done "Delivery Runner" a few times, although the lesser delivery jobs will also count towards your record.

You have to deliver one item from somewhere across the Disc to a destination in Ankh-Morpork. The maximum reward is 72000 XP and &&&&&&&&&&+14000 A$35.

Deliverer of Foreign Goods
The job market runs a delivery service, where customers request items to be brought to them.  Your job will be to acquire a number of items and deliver these to some of our customers.  Some of these items may be rare in these parts, so be prepared to employ arcane arts to travel.  They may also be quite expensive, although you will of course be reimbursed for the costs incurred afterwards.

Note: since this is a responsible job, and requires quite some know-how of the world, you must have significant experience with delivery runs to apply.  Preferably you should have successfully done either "Delivery Runner" or "Deliverer of Rare Items" a number of times, although the lesser delivery jobs will also count towards your record.

You have to deliver 4 types of item from all across the Disc each to its destination in Ankh-Morpork. If you do not know where to find them you can ask Mr Founder. The maximum reward is 152720 XP and &&&&&&&&&&+30000 A$75.

Medals

As your status with Mr. Werks increases he gives you medals (buttons) to reward your hard work.

In order, he gives:

  1. A small copper button
  2. A small nickel button
  3. A small tin button
  4. A small bronze button
  5. A small silver button
  6. A small gold button
  7. A medal of honour
  8. A medal of great honour
  9. A medal of very great honour
  10. A medal of greatest honour

The buttons look like:

This is a small button, made of <material>.  It bears an inscription of a hammer above a wagon wheel. 
Anyone who earns this medal can show proudly to the world that he/she is not afraid of hard work!
It is in excellent condition.

The medal of honour looks like:

This is a beautiful golden disc, bearing the seal of the Ankh-Morpork Job Market: a hammer above a wagon
wheel.  This medal is only given out to those who have shown great diligence in their work.
It is in excellent condition.

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