James Cook Brown, who also happened to be a science fiction author (he wrote The Troika Incident) and inventor of the artificial language, Loglan.

Decades after earning it, I'm finally putting the skills I learned while completing my history degree from the University of Victoria to good use. Zatu Games is a young, up-and-coming online retailer ready to change the game when it comes to employment. Interestingly there are still 8 career paths on the board, not the six that I have read of there being in later versions. In some later versions of the game I understand that Uranium Prospecting was replaced by a career in Computing, Going to Sea became setting sail on a Yacht and Farming morphed into Ecology. Victory conditions (a secret "Success Formula") consist of a minimum amount of fame, happiness and money (designated as fortune and counted in thousands of dollars) that the player must gain.

However, if they want a quick release from hospital there is the possibility of paying the Doctor half your annual salary to leave early. Other 'opportunity' cards are collected when landing on particular squares on the outer track which gives a player the option to move to an occupation path. During the post-game discussion, players begin to focus on major industry groups and even individual careers that meet the three goals listed above. Park Bench” was superceded by “Unemployment,” a term which fits the upper echelons as much as the down-and-out. The first player to reach or exceed his or her success formula (a specific combination of fame, money and happiness points) wins the game.

These 4 or 5-star reviews represent the opinions of the individuals who posted them and do not reflect the views of Etsy.One square that caught my eye when I started playing again recently was the ‘Get German Measles’ square in the ‘Space’ path. If I go into unemployment, instead of paying half my salary, can someone 'bail' me out by paying it for me? I've been gaming since the days of Pong and still own a working Atari 2600 (among other elder statesmen systems!

In Europe, the original German Franz Schmidt edition offered a holiday in Mallorca (“Urlaub auf Mallorca”), but a later German Parker Bros. If a player completes a single occupation path several times, they can pick up multiple experience cards. In the current situation, I guess I find it a bit strange that one of the careers isn’t medicine, yet one of the University degrees that players can obtain is medicine and the player that therefore becomes the Doctor in the game collects payments from other players when they go into hospital, and they also themselves receive free hospital treatment. When the game was first issued no one had been to the Moon, so the Mission to the Moon career path must have seemed quite futuristic.The Experience cards allow you to move a certain number of spaces – 1 through 4 – instead of rolling the dice. The Opportunity cards allow you to move to the career stated on the card, and four of the cards also give you free tuition to 4 different career paths. Share with us your comments, funny stories, tips, advice, strategies, creative ways to play, questions about how to play, problems with the directions or anything you want about Careers. The upper box cover is in very good condition and the lower box cover is also in very good condition with 3 of the box edges split. Hasbro picked up the Parker Brothers brand name in a corporate acquisition in 1991, and released a new version of Careers in 2003.

We're all about working hard and having fun, and we're looking for some exciting talent to join the team! Players (from two to six) set their own victory conditions before the game begins, the total of which must be sixty (or one hundred, recommended when only two are playing).It is a very clean copy just like you described, and I am extremely happy to now own a first edition copy in such wonderful condition! The careers featured in various editions of the game have changed several times over the past 50 years. The ratings/reviews displayed here may not be representative of every listing on this page, or of every review for these listings. There is a track for college where one receives a degree, which causes one's annual salary grow upon completing each full round of the board, and affects other aspects of the game as listed in the cards and on the board squares. Parker Brothers ads, including those for Careers, were placed in 30 magazines, and commercials were put on 60 television stations.