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I'm planning on writing a story with one of the characters I have on this site. My character, Andrew Mercer has a double life where at night he acts as a criminal. I have been thinking about what his job could be. One idea is that its a job that has decent pay but working there is like living the same day over and over again and he hates it. He is not the only main character in the story though, the other main character who I'll be using is Chloe Madrigal. They both work at the same job. When I'm thinking about writing the story I'm mostly thinking about times when they aren't working during the day, and to me it feels like giving them jobs seems forced. I want to give these two characters a job that they could have but I don't know what I should give them.

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For some reason, I had the impression that he was a police officer.

You mention that he's an office worker. What sort of industry do you feel he'd get into? Would he be at a company he likes, or at just whatever company took him doing a job he'd selected (such as accounting, HR, IT, some sort of clerk, management...)? Or would it just be something he took to get by?
It is a job that he took to get by. He originally applied to be a police officer but failed in succeeding,