Pre-modern work archetypes were at once expansive enough to accommodate real humans, and tightly circumscribed enough that they meant something.
Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor [Le Carre edition: spy]
Rich man, poor man, beggarman, thief
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In a 2010 post I updated to:
blogger, coder, soldier, consultant
rockstar, burger-flipper, welfareman, spammer
