Just curious. Writers, authors and adjacent ilk: do you put a lot of thought in the job(s) of your main character(s)?

I just spent half an hour on 2 jobs...

#writing

@paulk IDK if it counts, but I’ve been drawing Liz and Bryan for five years now, and I only nailed down Liz’s profession (firefighter) a few months ago. Bryan is still fluid, but I think he’s in tech. This mirrors my experience with other naturists, interestingly: when I meet them, “what do you do for a living” just doesn’t seem to be one of the first questions to come up!

@renudist It counts, absolutely. Usually it's not important for me either but I'm planning a story where the job of the main characters might be important further down the story road.

And true, naturists aren't much into 'what do you do'. I think that's partly because there are no clothes to take a guess at and find out if you're right.