need help with a story(stage play)

[huxley]

I have an idea for a stage play... but i need some help to think up what sort of job this character has.


he needs to have a rich mans job that where he's in a possition to exploit people and used people to get to where he is today...
the type of job where is mentality is " a man is mesured by the size of his wallet"
but he needed to exploit , back stap and fight to get to where he is.. wasnt handed that job or possition in live he needed to work , decive ect... to get there..

he has a big ego of himself and thinks he's important.
but i also want him to be after a goal.. he thrives for something.. he wanted more money and power... more then he already has,,, which is alot what would be the possibility for that type of job?

[ctg]

A hotel or a casino manager.

[zedlav]

Uriah Heep was only a clerk at first.

Clyde Griffiths was a foreman at a factory.

Then again, none of them were really rich at first (and Griffiths didn't manage to become rich at all, if I remember correctly).

Depends on the historical period, really.

For more traditional professions, a master artisan in a society that has guilds (I think there's even a stereotype for vicious power struggles in guilds), a ship's officer, even a damn fishmonger.

[The Curious Orange]

Well, I'm thinking of the character P1ss Harry in Terry Pratchett's The Truth, a man who made his fortune in... err... effluent waste management, and has a real chip on his shoulder and a need to prove himself due to the fact that the nobility don't take his wealth seriously owing to how he made it.

Money and success don't need to be glamorous - Where's there's muck, there's brass, as they say.