footballmanyac is looking for a career that will allow him to have prestige. He doesn't want to work hard, and values continued learning. He enjoys Arts and Writing, and is good at managing people.
John Nash (A Beautiful Mind) Mathematicians are needed all over the place, in organizations you'd never expect them to be needed at. John Nash is a Nobel Prize winning mathematician with an unfortunate case of schizophrenia. But he's very good at connecting the dots.
Mark Ritts (In Smog and Thunder) Historians research and compile the stories we learn in school. But The Historian is a little too good at morphing horrific events into fairy tales.
Robert Neville (I Am Legend) Biochemists play around with biological tissues and chemical processes to find cures for all our ailments. Robert Neville shows the possibility of job advancement into super-villainy, though, by creating a virus that wipes out humanity.
David Spritz (The Weather Man) Meteorologists figure out when it will rain, if that hurricane should be feared, or if it will just kill a bunch of Floridians, that kind of stuff. The weather man is one part meteorologist and one part broadcast journalist, much to the chagrin of David Spritz.