Rarely do you see superheroes have a real job and then go fight crime or whatever. Superman is a reporter, Spider-Man is a photographer, Daredevil is a lawyer. But what superhero just had a regular office job or something?
Rarely do you see superheroes have a real job and then go fight crime or whatever. Superman is a reporter, Spider-Man is a photographer, Daredevil is a lawyer. But what superhero just had a regular office job or something?
Ant-Man as a Baskin-Robbins cashier? Peter Parker as a pizza delivery boy? Captain America and many others as soldiers? Many X-Men are teachers, albeit for a specialized school. Robbie Reyes Ghost Rider is a mechanic. Can’t think of any DC characters that fit the bill apart from maybe Jay Garrick Flash as a college athlete.
Hal Jordan/Green Lantern was a pilot.
John Stewart/Green Lantern was in the military.
Clark Kent/Superman is a reporter.
Barry Allen/The Flash is a CSI (he’s basically like Dexter and Masuka).
Black Lightning (Jefferson Pierce) – High school principal
Most of those are less normal than what I was aiming for. Even being a reporter seemed too uncommon for what I wanted to list.
Of the things listed so far, I think that that’s the most-common, at least by US standards. By descending size:
https://www.bls.gov/oes/2024/may/area_emp_chart/area_emp_chart.htm
I thought being a soldier stood a fair chance, at least at the time of original publication. Not sure if your data considers that position?
Well, it’s easy enough to check, but I imagine that it does. Most countries don’t honestly have that many peacetime soldiers (though wartime is going to affect things). If you’re North Korea, maybe, as they have a very large military.
kagis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces
In the US, even if you counted every single active-duty person in all of the armed forces as a “soldier” — which I’m sure is not actually the case — you’d have 1.3 million people.
The smallest category in the chart I listed was office clerks, at 2.5 million.
goes looking for North Korea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_People's_Army
North Korea also has 1.3 million active-duty people in its military, but it has a far-smaller population than the US does, 26 million instead of 340 million. So in North Korea, if you counted “uniformed services” as one profession, it’d be easily higher than any occupation as a percentage-of-population than those listed above for the US. The largest category for the US — the home and health care aides — has 4 million, so 1% of the population. The active-duty military would be 5% of the population for North Korea.
I guess I had initially interpreted “normal” meaning the percent of people who have once in their life held that job, rather than the percent of people holding the job at any given time.