Basic Trope: The character on the show changes their job regularly.
- Straight: In Zany Avenue cartoon series, Lizzie the Chameleon keeps changing her job with each appearance in the story.
- Exaggerated:
- Lizzie changes her job Once per Episode, if not more.
- Lizzie keeps getting jobs that should logically take years to master, such as ambassador, jeweler, heart surgeon, nuclear physicist, and Special Forces operative.
- Downplayed:
- Lizzie gets a new job once or twice per season.
- Lizzie has a steady job, but always has a different side job.
- Lizzie is always in the same general line of work, but her employer is never the same twice.
- Justified:
- Lizzie has an Expansion Pack Past, so whenever she changes her job, she's just going back to something she already knows by heart.
- Lizzie is deployed by the Employement Agency to companies dealing with temporary employment issues.note
- Lizzie is something of a troublemaker and always ends up angering her bosses to the point where they fire her. Thus, she has to look for a new job often.
- Inverted: Lizzie has one established job, that of a graphic designer, and it's the plot that bends according to her job, resulting in things like Lizzie exposing a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax with her design knowledge or getting recruited into the military's PSYOPS division.
- Subverted:
- Lizzie changes job regularly, but her real job is that of a Con Artist.
- While it may look like she changes jobs frequently, they are actually concurrent jobs as she cant make ends meet otherwise.note
- That's not Lizzie, that's Lucy… er, Leah…, Louise…? How many relatives does she even have?
- Double Subverted:
- However, she ends up Becoming the Mask due to all the skills she had to learn to present a convincing façade, and eventually starts making more money legitimately than she would by swindling people.
- It turns out Lizzie invented a huge number of relatives because of her embarrassment over not being able to hold down a job.
- Parodied:
- Lizzie's office has a Long List of crossed-out terrible slogans along the lines of "Lizzie & Co. — We do [X]!", eventually culminating in "Lizzie & Co. — We don't even know what we do anymore!"
- Lizzie is applying for a position as a janitor at the hospital, and she's hired, but then she goes to work at her computer programming job.
- Lizzie is shown getting hired for her jobs by literally meeting an Author Avatar character (wearing a Conspicuous Trenchcoat and using a voice disguise) under bridges and viaducts and in empty parking garages.
- Zig-Zagged: Lizzie keeps rotating between several jobs in which she has proper expertise, rather than pick something new every time.
- Averted: Lizzie has one established job, and if she changes it, it's presented as a plot point.
- Enforced:
- Zany Avenue has an Economy Cast, and Lizzie is specifically billed as a do-anything entrepreneur who's there to help other characters for a price, no matter what their need is.
- Lizzie is a protagonist in a Simulation Game about occupations, so the developer makes Lizzie changes her job to fit the role of each game.
- Lampshaded: Lizzie's business card reads: "Lizzie the Chameleon: plumber, baker, Special Ops, and so much more."
- Invoked: Lizzie deliberately keeps changing jobs because she is searching for the one perfect job while having no idea what it could be.
- Exploited: Charlie the Cat goes to Lizzie and asks her to pick up a new job so she can assist him in his latest Zany Scheme.
- Defied: Lizzie picks one job and sticks to it, reasoning that she can't provide everything for everyone on her own.
- Discussed: "First cake decorator, then jet fighter pilot, and now history teacher. Lizzie, Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs??" "Because ... because."
- Conversed: "Why do you think Lizzie from Zany Avenue keeps changing jobs so often? Besides the joke potential, I mean." "Well, for starters, the other characters need someone to supply them with new ridiculous goods and services ... and isn't she a chameleon?"
- Implied: Lizzie's job is never elaborated upon much, but one time, she takes out her resume, which promptly unfolds all the way to the floor and rolls offscreen.
- Deconstructed: Lizzie keeps changing jobs because she is inexperienced in all of them, resulting in a Vicious Cycle of trying to find something she'd be good at and failing due to not having decent experience with anything.
- Reconstructed: Lizzie is an amazingly quick learner, and keeps changing jobs because she can learn all there is to a job, and then start getting bored, in the span of a few weeks.
- Played for Laughs: Lizzie's résumeé is shown. Her list of skills alone leaves most readers tongue-tied trying to recite it.
- Played for Drama: Nobody accepts Lizzie at any of her jobs because they all know she'll just leave in a few days, and her social life suffers.
- Played for Horror: It's well-established among the characters that Lizzie is actually the earthly avatar to The Mind of Six Thousand Hands, an Adorable Abomination who is always found running a new instance of The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday and dealing in all kinds of severely specialized spooky stuff the heroes might or might not need.
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