Petrol pump attendant
II_Gyan_II:
Petrol pump attendant
Johnson, Navin R. (The Jerk )
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (not her job at the start, but later on)Primer (they appear to be electrical engineers), Flash of Genius (the story of Robert Kearns).
Argent_Towers:
Panhandler
Hobo With a Shotgun
I thought that in Cliffhanger Stallone was working as a forest ranger after the incident opening scene, but maybe he wasn’t.
Spoons
August 22, 2011, 7:32am
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In my location, and with very few exceptions (such as judges and Members of Parliament), only lawyers can be notaries public.
This may not accord with the experience of our friends in the US; but I would suggest that as lawyers were mentioned in the OP, and notaries can be lawyers, then notaries are represented by the many lawyer shows.
astro
August 22, 2011, 7:44am
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Spoons:
In my location, and with very few exceptions (such as judges and Members of Parliament), only lawyers can be notaries public.
This may not accord with the experience of our friends in the US; but I would suggest that as lawyers were mentioned in the OP, and notaries can be lawyers, then notaries are represented by the many lawyer shows.
Interesting - Wiki lays it out
Being a “Notary Public” is very different animal from country to country
A notary public (or notary or public notary) in the common law world is a public officer constituted by law to serve the public in non-contentious matters usually concerned with estates, deeds, powers-of-attorney, and foreign and international business. A notary’s main functions are to administer oaths and affirmations, take affidavits and statutory declarations, witness and authenticate the execution of certain classes of documents, take acknowledgments of deeds and other conveyances, protest notes and bills of exchange, provide notice of foreign drafts, prepare marine or ship’s protests in cases of damage, provide exemplifications and notarial copies, and perform certain other official acts depending on the jurisdiction.[1] Any such act is known as a notarization. The term notary public only refers to common-law notaries and should not be confused with civil-law notaries.
With the exceptions of Louisiana, Puerto Rico, Quebec, whose private law is based on civil law, and British Columbia, whose notarial tradition stems from scrivener notary practice, a notary public in the rest of the United States and most of Canada has powers that are far more limited than those of civil-law or other common-law notaries, both of whom are qualified lawyers admitted to the bar: such notaries may be referred to as notaries-at-law or lawyer notaries. Therefore, at common law, notarial service is distinct from the practice of law, and giving legal advice and preparing legal instruments is forbidden to lay notaries such as those appointed throughout most of the United States of America.
astro
August 22, 2011, 7:46am
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II_Gyan_II:
Petrol pump attendant
Goober and Gomer Pyle - Andy Griffith SHow
astro
August 22, 2011, 8:02am
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Argent_Towers:
Game warden
All of these are off the top of my head. I will think of more…
Forest ranger - Dennis weaver - Father - Gentle Ben
Professional hunter (or poacher) / Fishing guide - These are hugely represented in Outdoor TV shows
Re TV shows Daniel Boone was a professional hunter and guide
msmith537:
Sgt Bilko
Bilko was in the motor pool
Justin_Bailey:
The Social Network.
Mark Zuckerberg was not a UX designer and Facebook’s first UX designer, Aaron Sittig, was not present in the film.
Ranchoth:
Torturer?
Nah, I think this one is actually pretty common. For example, Closet Land and Sunshine are both set in police states and the lead actors (Alan Rickman and Ralph Fiennes, respectively) play interrogators whose job it is to extract information by torture. There are probably also a lot of gangster movies where one or more of the lead characters are thugs who torture people on orders of their bosses.
Funny sketch, but I don’t think one sketch counts as a lead character in a TV show.
Fine, then—I submit for your consideration The Wright Brothers The Wright Brothers
Joey_P
August 22, 2011, 11:37am
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Having said that, both Dwight and Angela on The Office are Notary Publics.