What Jobs Are The Most Important? On a Tropical Island?

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  1. Dan Leach

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  2. Tamar Garish

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  4. Amaris

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    A haberdasher.
    We're going to need hats.


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    Brewer, things would be much easier with some booze of some kind.
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  6. Dan Leach

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    They are locked up in cages until they're ready to be used.
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    In you're case, blown up.
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  10. Spaceturkey

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    Hmm, well any group far enough on the ocean to hit a deserted island is going to have a sailor capable of lashing/tying the vines and such together for shelters.

    50/50 odds that person has working knowledge of lobster traps and can apply that to shallow water fish.

    A naturopathic healer would be the most versatile medic by knowing herbal remedies and nutritional sources. They also tend to be good gardeners.

    After taht, I don't think peoples' principle occupations are very relevant. Most folks' secondary skillsets would round out the needs of the group.
    Spaceturkey, Aug 26, 2008
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  11. actormike

    actormike Okay, Connery...

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    To survive on a tropical island you need: a spinal surgeon, a fugitive, a box company employee, a con artist, a bass player, an Iraqi torturer, a fat guy who just won the lottery, a Korean mafia enforcer and his hen-pecked wife and a pregnant Australian girl.

    And some cannon fodder.
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    Survival:
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    Escape:
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    Everyone else is superfluous, but it helps if they all have common sense.
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  13. Nautica

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    You didn't actually read the thread, did you? Otherwise you'd have repped me for this:
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  14. actormike

    actormike Okay, Connery...

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    D'oh! Great minds.

    Rep on its way.
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    Some sort of sorceror would be cool.
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    You underestimate Chuck Norris, he can roundhouse-kick his offspring into existence, complete with roundhouse-kicking beards. Even for the girls.
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    Clearly, as has been mentioned, a Professor is the most valuable asset to castaways.

    A cook such as Mary Ann would be useful as well.

    All others are expendable.
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