Random Job Generator With What Each Job Really Does: how it works
This random job generator draws from 397 real jobs, from glazier to actuary to flight attendant. Each card says in one line what the work is and what schooling people usually need to start. Narrow the draw to healthcare, science and tech, the trades, business, teaching and law, the arts, service work or outdoor jobs. Lock the jobs you like, swap the rest, save favorites and share the set.
Draw, lock and swap
Five jobs are on the page when it opens. Press New jobs or the space bar for five more, or change the size to 1, 10 or 20. The padlock holds a job while the others change, and the swap arrows replace just that one. No job comes back until you have seen every job that passes your chip, and a counter shows how far through you are. The heart keeps a job on your saved list for your next visit.
Eight fields to draw from
The chips sort the list by field: healthcare; science, tech and engineering; building, repair and making; business, office and sales; teaching, law and public safety; arts, media and sport; food, travel and personal care; and transport, farming and outdoors. Choose one and the draw stays inside it, which helps when a story needs a hospital full of staff or a lesson is about the trades. With no chip chosen, a surgeon can land next to a tree trimmer, and that mix is the fun of it.
What the entry line means
The last words on each card give the typical entry-level education for that job in the United States, as listed in the Occupational Outlook Handbook of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. We checked every one on 18 September 2026. 'Postsecondary nondegree award' means a certificate course after high school, such as cosmetology or truck driving school. Other countries set their own rules, and many jobs also need a license or training on the job. We left out pay because it changes every year.
Tips
- Writers: draw one job for your main character and a second for the job they wish they had. The gap between the two is a story already.
- For career day, give each student a different job in one pass by pressing once per student at size 1. Nothing repeats, so thirty students get thirty jobs.
- If you wanted a random job generator wheel for a classroom screen, set the size to 1 and let a student press the space bar. One job lands in large type each time.
- Play charades or a drawing game with it. Draw at size 1, keep the screen hidden and act out the job with no words.
- The job of the day is the same for every visitor and changes at midnight. Guess the entry education before you read the card and see how long your streak runs.
Questions and answers
How many jobs are in the list?
There are 397. By field: 67 in healthcare, 82 in science, tech and engineering, 65 in building, repair and making, 59 in business, office and sales, 44 in teaching, law and public safety, 31 in arts, media and sport, 24 in food, travel and personal care and 25 in transport, farming and outdoors. Every one is a real job people are paid to do.
Is there a random job generator wheel I can spin?
Not a spinning one. A wheel stops being readable after a few dozen slices, and this list has 397 jobs. Size 1 gives the same one-winner result in a single press, and every job that passes your chip has the same chance. Unlike most wheels, the page remembers what it has dealt, so the same job never wins twice in a row.
Where does the education on each card come from?
From the Occupational Outlook Handbook, published by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, read on 18 September 2026. It lists the schooling most workers need to enter each occupation. We shortened the official job titles to everyday names and wrote the descriptions in our own words. Jobs whose entry level we could not confirm there were left out.
Can this tell me which career to choose?
No. It is a list of real jobs dealt at random, which is good for finding work you had never heard of and for stories, games and lessons. It does not know your skills or where you live. Treat a draw as a starting point for your own reading, and talk to a school or careers adviser about real decisions.
How many jobs need no degree?
On this list, 36 jobs usually need no formal credential to start and 108 need a high school diploma. Another 25 need a certificate course after high school, 6 need some college and 29 need an associate's degree. A bachelor's degree is the usual start for 129, a master's for 32 and a doctoral or professional degree for 32.