This is a list of sci-fi backgrounds/careers. What have I missed?

[Morrus]

High School Jock
Street Kid
Wealthy Upbringing
Noble
Bartender
Band Member
Record Contract
Street Thug
Gangster
Con Artist
Burglar
Prison
Sports Scholarship
Pro Athlete
Superstar Athlete
College
Advanced College
Doctorate
Field Scientist
Counsellor
Military Academy
Starfleet Cadet Cruise
Starfleet Tour
Starship Engineer
Starship Science Officer
Starship Communications Officer
Starship Counsellor
Starship Medical Officer
Starship Security Officer
Starship Helmsman
Academy Teaching
Starbase Assignment
Space Marines Cadet Assignment
Space Marines Tour of Duty
Starfleet Intelligence Recruit
Police Officer
Detective
Psi-Corps
Smuggler
Drifter
Gambler
Space Jockey
Priest

 

[reemul]

Scout / Explorer
Musician
Revolutionary
Asteroid Miner
Deepspace Construction
Roboticist
Cyberneticist
Geneticist

Clone
Creche-raised
Genetically Altered
Mutant
Heavy-Worlder
Radiation Scarred
Runaway Regeneration
Ship-bred
null-g habitat

Education via RNA therapy, hypno learning, direct mental induction, memory transfer, cyber implant, symbiont

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Computer/IT specialist (private, government, or military) would seem to be distinct.

Asteroid Miner would be a subset of all Xenominers: those who retrieve precious resources from non-terrestrial sources, be they asteroids, comets, moons, or the atmospheres of gaseous bodies (planets, stars, nebulae).

Scrapper/Junker needs to be there.

Starship weapons officer.

 

[Aramax]

Hunter
poss. Space Barbarian if you have a place for him to come from(could be alien,again depending on setting)

 

[Celebrim]

"Band Member" is actually a subset of "Entertainer", which includes all sorts of mediums that aren't listed.
Actor
Journalist, unless blogging has made the profession obsolete, in which case see Entertainer
Programmer/Hacker
Physician
Nanotech/3D Printing Engineer
Body Guard/Security Expert
Fire Fighter
Hazardous Materials Handler
Ecologist/Planetologist/Climatologist/Terra-forming Engineer
Exo-Welder/Construction Worker
Drone Operator/Robot Supervisor
Professional Gamer
Professional Simulation Designer
CAD/CAM Draftsman
Holography Engineer
Archaeologist - In a sufficiently far future setting, modern society has its deep layer of junk and artifacts that is occasionally valuable (recycling), dangerous, and requires understanding (we need get data off this 4000 year old medium, written for an operating system that no longer exists, or alternately, our 4000 year old BIOS has suddenly stopped working and we need to know why)

All your "Starship" professions seem to be "some other profession" + "military", such as "Physician" + "Military" = Starship Medical Officer or "Engineer" + "military" = Starship Engineering Officer. I suspect that way of thinking about the world is an anachronism, sort of like saying ePoker. Eventually the 'electronic' just drops off the description because the distinction ceases to be novel. In any event, if the system is flexible enough to allow for multiple backgrounds to be chosen, you won't need a separate one for each career path in a star faring military. There are Combat Entomologists in the real world, for example (I happen to know one).

 

[trancejeremy]

Janitor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetfall

 

[doghead]

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All your "Starship" professions seem to be "some other profession" + "military", such as "Physician" + "Military" = Starship Medical Officer or "Engineer" + "military" = Starship Engineering Officer. I suspect that way of thinking about the world is an anachronism, sort of like saying ePoker. Eventually the 'electronic' just drops off the description because the distinction ceases to be novel. In any event, if the system is flexible enough to allow for multiple backgrounds to be chosen, you won't need a separate one for each career path in a star faring military. There are Combat Entomologists in the real world, for example (I happen to know one).

Generally, I would much prefer a system with fewer broad Skills or Areas of Experience that can be combined or stacked to make specialisations, rather than one with a huge number of discrete skills.

Where possible I prefer games without long lists. Rather than have a list 20 backgrounds that allow the character to take one rank in, say, Computer Programming, why not just just have the the player pick a skill and provide a reason for having it in their background write up.

thotd