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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'': Whenever his employment is a plot point of some kind, Jonesy Garcia (the poster boy for GerogeJetsonJobSecurity) has a new job in pretty much every single episode of the series--he has a tendency to be lazy, irresponsible, or to just plain suck at the job in question.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'': Effectively every single episode, as Jonesy is the poster boy for GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity. He has a tendency to be lazy, irresponsible, or to just plain suck at the job in question.

* Happens frequently to Timmy's Dad on ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'', despite being shown to have a regular job at a pencil factory/office in most episodes. Nevertheless he's had episodes where he became an astronaut, a farmer, sock monkey salesman, a scientist and an episode where he swapped jobs '''every five seconds'''. Timmy's Mom goes through the same things, while usually shown as either a realtor/home wife, she's had episodes focusing on a carreer change such as when she became a weather girl.

* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': Played straight and subverted. In the Season 1 episode "Bueno Nacho," Kim gets a job to buy a new jacket and pulls Ron in with her. Despite Ron's success at the job, both have quit/lost their job by the end of the episode. In Season 4, "The Big Job" provides subversion and playing it straight as both Kim and Ron try to find jobs. Kim finds one at Club Banana relatively easy, but Ron spends the whole episode finding and losing strange jobs until being employed by Smarty Mart. Both of these jobs would last through the season and even be mentioned, have characters seen working there, or have episodic plots relating to them.

** Although nowhere near as many, a few episodes have been about [[HouseWife Marge]] getting a job or starting a business venture, including a cop, manager of a chain of pretzel stands, real estate agent, and owner of a women's gym.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': Beast Boy gets a job at Mega Meaty Meat Hut, which is the last place he wants to work, as he's a vegetarian. [[spoiler:The manager of the restaurant is actually an alien that strongly resembles block tofu and wants to replace meat with a vegetarian friendly option-[[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext while he steals all the cows in the world to fuel his spaceship, at which poing he'll blow up Earth]].]]

* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck. However, his boss is usually his uncle, Scrooge.
** {{Justified}} when Scrooge isn't his boss: Donald invariably becomes so good at the new job that he grows arrogant enough to do something incredibly stupid, leading to the job spectacularly blowing up in his face (for a rather appropriate example, the story where he was a veritable artist of using explosions for everything ranging from controlled demolitions to ''cooking'' ended up with him trying to blow up an ancient sequoia sitting on a fault line that ran under Scrooge's Money Bin. [[ForegoneConclusion You can guess what happened]]... And [[EpicFail the sequoia survived]]). That, or [[GoneHorriblyRight he becomes so good that his own skills backfire on him]] (the story with him as a hyperrealistic house decorator ended with his customers chasing him for such things as the house decorated with stars having indoor ''meteor showers'').

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* The 90's ''VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}}'' TV series ''Anime de Hakken!! Tamagotchi'' has an episode where Mametchi takes up the job of a traffic cop. He's quite good at it, except for when he inadvertently holds up traffic twice - once when he's on lunch break, and again when he goes to sleep for the night. ''While he's still at the intersection.''

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* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': "Vitamin E-12" and "Le Chien Chaud Et Le Mouton Noir" see Miss Brooks get positions outside school.

* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'': The stepbrothers temporarily get jobs at a fish packaging plant in an homage to ''Series/ILoveLucy'''s candy factory episode.
* Lizzie's job as a waitress in ''Series/{{Lizzie McGuire}}''.

* Matthew in ''Series/NewsRadio'' quits the radio station and ends up working at the coffee shop downstairs (but only for one day).

* Every Bundy (even Peg's never-seen mother) has one on Series/MarriedWithChildren.
** While not the main plotline, one episode has Jefferson working his first day at a car wash when Steve Rhoades makes a return appearance as a chauffeur.
* Happened on ''Series/TheBradyBunch'' a couple of times, with a couple of the kids. Peter got a job in a bike shop briefly in one, and Greg briefly worked for his dad at the architect firm, as a delivery boy.
* Happened with such regual frequency on ''Series/CornerGas'' that it was lampshaded in the season finale
--> '''Oscar''': Why the hell settle? We never settled! I'm a paperboy one week, you teach piano the next, the next week Lacey's a hockey coach, Wanda's a real estate agent, Hank's an accountant, the cops have a radio show! We all try new things.
* ''Series/AustinAndAlly'': Exaggerated and played for laughs. Trish is known for getting new jobs and getting fired quickly. She often gets more than one new job per episode.
* In ''Series/That70sShow'', Eric becomes a BurgerFool because his family needs the extra money, but quits because he doesn't get to spend much time with his girlfriend.

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--->'''Grimes''': (Pointing to a photo) Hey, is that...
--->'''Homer''': Yep. That's me. And the man standing next to me is former President Gerald Ford. And that's me on tour with Music/TheSmashingPumpkins. And that's me in outer space!
--->'''Grimes''': You... Went into outer space? You?
--->'''Homer''': Sure. You've never been? Want to see my Grammy Award?

* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': Played straight and subverted. In the Season 1 episode "Bueno Nacho," Kim gets a job to buy a new jacket and pulls Ron in with her. Despite Ron's success at the job, both have quit/lost their job by the end of the episode. In Season 4, "The Big Job" provides subversion and playing it straight as both Kim and Ron try to find jobs. Kim finds one at Club Banana relatively easy, but Ron spends the whole episode finding and losing strange jobs until being employed by Smarty Mart. Both of these jobs would last through the season and even be mentioned, have characters seen working there, or have episodic plots relating to them.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}} 6teen]]'': Effectively every single episode, as Jonesy is the poster boy for GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity. He has a tendency to be lazy, irresponsible, or to just plain suck at the job in question.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' features an episode where the titular character works at a shop dispensing nuts.
* On ''WesternAnimation/MissionHill'', a two-part episode details the closing of the waterbed store where Andy worked and his eventual hiring by Jim at an advertising agency.
* Happens frequently to Timmy's Dad on ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'', despite being shown to have a regular job at a pencil factory/office in most episodes. Nevertheless he's had episodes where he became an astronaut, a farmer, sock monkey salesman, a scientist and an episode where he swapped jobs '''every five seconds'''. Timmy's Mom goes through the same things, while usually shown as either a realtor/home wife, she's had episodes focusing on a carreer change such as when she became a weather girl.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'':
** In "Bitches to Rags", Thugnificent's career in hip-hop music ends in disaster, and is now left in deep trouble trying to pay off his massive debts. He decides to become a drug dealer selling crack cocaine, but that doesn't work out too well. He eventually settles for working a more humble job as a UPS mailman.
** In Season 4, Robert Freeman is forced by his bankruptcy and debt to [[LoanShark Ed Wuncler II]] to start working various odd jobs. This includes the humiliation of working in a car wash with [[MeanBoss Uncle Ruckus]] as his manager. Later in "Early Bird Special", Robert is [[ItMakesSenseInContext hired by elderly women to be an "escort" (male prostitute) for lonely younger women]].
* While WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob|SquarePants}} loves his job at the Krusty Krab, there have been times where he has been forced to get another job temporarily. He has worked for Plankton at the Chum Bucket in "Welcome to the Chum Bucket", in "Model Sponge" he has also been a model for a new sponge commercial, and in "[=SpongeBob=], You're Fired", has him work at different fast food restaurants.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Lizzie}}'' episode "My Dad, the Lunchlady" has Lizzie Green's father start working at the cafeteria to appease his wife's demands that he get a job. The principal fires him after it turns out that he forgot to wear pants to work.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Episode 93 has Stumpy and Quack Quack learning how to be firefighters. They are so incompetent that they fail to learn anything properly and the job only lasts for one episode.
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* ''Manga/{{Karin}}'': Fumio Usui, Kenta's mother, suffers from this. Of course, half the time the fault is being SoBeautifulItsACurse.

* ''Anime/NogizakaHarukaNoHimitsu'': In order to be able to buy something to give Haruka for Christmas, Yuuto became a butler for one week. The antics of his sister and his homeroom teacher cost him almost all he earned so he's briefly seen holding another job in another episode.

** {{Justified}} when Scrooge isn't his boss: Donald invariably becomes so good at the new job that he grows arrogant enough to do something incredibly stupid, leading to the job spectacularly blowing up in his face (for a rather appropriate example, the story where he was a veritable artist of using explosions for everything ranging from controlled demolitions to ''cooking'' ended up with him trying to blow up an ancient sequoia sitting on a fault line that ran under Scrooge's Money Bin. [[ForegoneConclusion You can guess what happened]]... And [[EpicFail the sequoia survived]]). That, or [[GoneHorriblyRight he becomes so good that his own skills backfire on him (the story with him as a hyperrealistic house decorator ended with his customers chasing him for such things as the house decorated with stars having indoor ''meteor showers'').

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* ''Manga/NogizakaHarukaNoHimitsu'': In order to be able to buy something to give Haruka for Christmas, Yuuto became a butler for one week. The antics of his sister and his homeroom teacher cost him almost all he earned so he's briefly seen holding another job in another episode.

* ''Manga/{{Karin}}'': Fumio Usui, Kenta's mother, suffers from this. Of course, half the time the fault is being a Hot Shonen Mom.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' Season 4, Robert Freeman is forced by his bankruptcy and debt to Ed Wuncler II to start working odd jobs. This includes the humiliation of working in a car wash with Uncle Ruckus as his manager. Later in "Early Bird Special", Robert is [[ItMakesSenseInContext hired by elderly women to be an "escort" (male prostitute) for lonely younger women]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': Beast Boy gets a job at Mega Meaty Meat Hut, which is the last place he wants to work, as he's a vegetarian. [[spoiler:The manager of the restaurant is actually an alien that strongly resembles block tofu and wants to replace meat with a vegetarian friendly option.]]

* ''Manga/HotGimmick'' : Shinogu Narita somehow manages to have a job in ''every single place'' his sister Hatsumi goes with Ryoki.

* ''ComicStrip/TheWackyAdventuresOfPedro'' has ''Boys' Life'' magazine and mascot Pedro the Mailburro explore several other side endeavors.

* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'': The stepbrothers temporarily get jobs at a fish packaging plant in an homage to ''ILoveLucy'''s candy factory episode.

** "Papa's Got a Brand-New Badge", where [[ContinuityCavalcade the list]] is [[TheLongList long enough]] that Marge manages to get completely ready for bed (including putting rolls in her 3 feet of hair) before it's over. The quote: "I've had a lot of jobs in my life: boxer, mascot, astronaut, baby proofer, imitation Krusty, truck driver, hippie, plow driver, food critic, conceptual artist, grease salesman, carny, mayor, grifter, bodyguard for the mayor, country western manager, garbage commissioner, mountain climber, farmer, inventor, Smithers, Poochie, celebrity assistant, power plant worker, fortune cookie writer, beer baron, Kwik-E-Mart clerk, homophobe, and missionary, but protecting people, that gives me the best feeling of all."
** That quote doesn't even list a few others he's been: He's also served in the military in both the Army and Navy Reserve and he's also been a fast food employee, a spring salesman, a snake oil salesman (together with Grandpa), a monorail engineer, a community safety watchdog, a community college teacher, an chiropractor, an employee for a mini-golf place, a fisherman, an organic juice maker, a mall Santa, a bounty hunter, an extortionist (collecting money for Fat Tony), webmaster (as "Mr. X"), an ice-cream man, a volunteer fireman, pilot, safety technician, a police informant (more than once), a blackjack dealer, and he worked at Praiseland (a separate instance from when he was a carny at a regular carnival). Not technically jobs include leader of a BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats, and a vigilante (both in the pastry wielding and standard gun wielding variety)

* Happened with such regual frequency on ''CornerGas'' that it was lampshaded in the season finale

* ''Manga/{{Karin}}': Fumio Usui, Kenta's mother, suffers from this. Of course, half the time the fault is being a Hot Shonen Mom.

* ''DrakeAndJosh'': The stepbrothers temporarily get jobs at a fish packaging plant in an homage to ''ILoveLucy'''s candy factory episode.
* Lizzie's job as a waitress in ''{{Lizzie McGuire}}''.

* Matthew in ''NewsRadio'' quits the radio station and ends up working at the coffee shop downstairs (but only for one day).
* On ''{{Friends}}'', Joey has held several temporary jobs, including working at Chandler's office, Monica's restaurant, Ross's museum and even Central Perk (this one even lasted more than one episode).
* Every Bundy (even Peg's never-seen mother) has one on MarriedWithChildren.

* Happened on ''TheBradyBunch'' a couple of times, with a couple of the kids. Peter got a job in a bike shop briefly in one, and Greg briefly worked for his dad at the architect firm, as a delivery boy.

* ''AustinAndAlly'': Exaggerated and played for laughs. Trish is known for getting new jobs and getting fired quickly. She often gets more than one new job per episode.

* Despite his age, poor health and irate, racist behavior, Unckle Ruckus from TheBoondocks has worked in dozens of careers. In one episode he mentions having 32 jobs every week, justifying this trope.