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1	'''Basic Trope''': The character on the show changes their job regularly.
2	* '''Straight''': In ''[[ZanyCartoon Zany Avenue]]'' cartoon series, [[ALizardNamedLiz Lizzie]] [[SpeciesSurname the Chameleon]] keeps changing her job with each appearance in the story.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** Lizzie changes her job OncePerEpisode, if not more.
5	** Lizzie keeps getting jobs that should logically take years to master, such as ambassador, jeweler, heart surgeon, nuclear physicist, and Special Forces operative.
6	* '''Downplayed''':
7	** Lizzie gets a new job once or twice per season.
8	** Lizzie has a steady job, but always has a different side job.
9	** Lizzie is always in the same general line of work, but her employer is never the same twice.
10	* '''Justified''':
11	** Lizzie has an ExpansionPackPast, so whenever she changes her job, she's just going back to something she already knows by heart.
12	** Lizzie is deployed by the Employement Agency to companies dealing with temporary employment issues.[[note]]technically a subversion as all her surface jobs derive from her real job as a temp.[[/note]]
13	** 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.
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15	* '''Inverted''': Lizzie has one established job, that of a graphic designer, and it's [[ContrivedCoincidence the plot that bends]] according to her job, resulting in things like Lizzie exposing a ScoobyDooHoax with her design knowledge or [[BootCampEpisode getting recruited into the military's PSYOPS division]].
16	* '''Subverted''':
17	** Lizzie changes job regularly, but her ''[[HonestJohnsDealership real]]'' [[HonestJohnsDealership job is that of a]] ConArtist.
18	** While it may look like she changes jobs frequently, they are actually concurrent jobs as she cant make ends meet otherwise.[[note]]Might explain why she looks so haggard.[[/note]]
19	** [[UncannyFamilyResemblance That's not Lizzie, that's Lucy… er, Leah…, Louise…?]] How many relatives does she even have?
20	* '''Double Subverted''':
21	** However, she ends up BecomingTheMask due to all the skills she had to learn to present a convincing façade, and eventually [[CutLexLuthorACheck starts making more money legitimately than she would by swindling people]].
22	** It turns out Lizzie invented a huge number of relatives because of her embarrassment over not being able to hold down a job.
23	* '''Parodied''':
24	** Lizzie's office has a LongList of crossed-out [[OurSloganIsTerrible 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!"
25	** 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.
26	** Lizzie is shown getting hired for her jobs by literally meeting an AuthorAvatar character (wearing a ConspicuousTrenchcoat and using a voice disguise) under bridges and viaducts and in empty parking garages.
27	* '''Zig-Zagged''': Lizzie keeps rotating between several jobs in which she has proper expertise, rather than pick something new every time.
28	* '''Averted''': Lizzie has one established job, and if she changes it, it's presented as a plot point.
29	* '''Enforced''':
30	** ''Zany Avenue'' has an EconomyCast, 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.
31	** Lizzie is a protagonist in a SimulationGame about occupations, so the developer makes Lizzie changes her job to fit the role of each game.
32	* '''Lampshaded''': Lizzie's [[MyCard business card]] reads: "Lizzie the Chameleon: plumber, baker, Special Ops, and so much more."
33	* '''Invoked''': Lizzie deliberately keeps changing jobs because she is [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife searching for the one perfect job while having no idea]] what it could be.
34	* '''Exploited''': [[AlliterativeName Charlie the Cat]] goes to Lizzie and asks her to pick up a new job so she can assist him in his latest ZanyScheme.
35	* '''Defied''': Lizzie picks one job and sticks to it, reasoning that she can't provide everything for everyone on her own.
36	* '''Discussed''': "First cake decorator, then jet fighter pilot, and now history teacher. Lizzie, {{why do you keep changing jobs}}?" "Because ... [[NonAnswer because]]."
37	* '''Conversed''': "Why do you think Lizzie from ''Zany Avenue'' keeps changing jobs so often? [[RuleOfFunny 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 [[AnimalStereotypes a chameleon]]?"
38	* '''Implied''': Lizzie's job is never elaborated upon much, but one time, she takes out her resume, [[LongList which promptly unfolds all the way to the floor and rolls offscreen]].
39	* '''Deconstructed''': Lizzie keeps changing jobs because [[MasterOfNone she is inexperienced in all of them]], resulting in a ViciousCycle of trying to find ''something'' she'd be good at and failing due to not having decent experience with anything.
40	* '''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.
41	* '''Played for Laughs''': Lizzie's résumeé is shown. Her list of skills alone leaves most readers tongue-tied trying to recite it.
42	* '''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.
43	* '''Played for Horror''': It's [[OpenSecret well-established among the characters]] that Lizzie is actually the earthly avatar to The Mind of Six Thousand Hands, an AdorableAbomination who is always found running a new instance of TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday and dealing in all kinds of [[SeverelySpecializedStore severely specialized]] spooky stuff the heroes might or might not need.
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