Wow, this thread is moving fast.
RAKninja - you're captain of the guard, which I normally send into battle along with the squad, so therefore, you're a soldier. You also have a small
army squad at your disposal (disposal might be a poor choice of words). As to computer repair, I fear that the secrets of computer technology would soon be lost... that kind of thing requires the proper tools to create the proper tools to create the integrated circuits, and we don't have the proper tools,
or the proper tools to create the other proper tools.
Corai - +1 to you for reading Spearbreakers.
Wierd, if Toady ever puts alchemy back in the game (which I imagine is analogous to phytochemistry), you'll probably be one of the best among us.
KodKod, you're a mason/animal trainer, given these jobs for your desire to build your own torturehouse, and of course how you're the Scorpion Queen. You need a way to tame those scorpions, right? So they don't kill us all? (not that you'd mind)
Metalhead, welcome to The Twelfth Bay. I'm your miner, as Eric Blank apparently signed off for bowyer duty, so just point at the wall somewhere and I'll carve you a room. I've done plenty of digging in "real life", so.
Our clothes are going to wear out at some point. What do we do? Nobody's ever mentioned this problem.