Career City
Don't read about a job.
Turn up and do it.
Every shift here is the real decision at the heart of the job — who to treat first, what order to do it in, who to send. Finish a shift and you keep the wage, the stars and the career card.
Health Science
18 careersKeeping people alive, mending them, and knowing who needs you first.
Paramedic
Sort it, under pressure
You get to people on the worst day of their life, work out who needs help first, and keep them alive on the way to hospital.
Surgical Nurse
Right steps, right order
You set up the operating theatre, hand the surgeon every instrument before they ask, and count every single item in and out again.
Pharmacist
Keep people moving
You are the last person who can catch a mistake before a medicine reaches someone — and quite often you are the one who catches it.
Diagnostic Radiographer
Sort it, under pressure
You take the picture the doctor will decide from — and you are the one who has to notice when the picture shows something nobody asked you to look for.
Sonographer
Sort it, under pressure
You hold a probe against somebody's skin and read what is underneath in real time — and sometimes you are the first person in the world to know something is wrong.
Midwife
Sort it, under pressure
You look after a woman through a birth — and the whole skill is knowing the difference between something that is hard and something that is going wrong.
Mental Health Nurse
Sort it, under pressure
You look after people whose illness is in their thinking — and most of your skill is in a conversation rather than in anything you can hold.
District Nurse
Sort it, under pressure
You do hospital-level nursing in people's front rooms, on your own, with whatever is actually in the house.
Occupational Therapist
Keep people moving
You work out what somebody actually needs to be able to do, and then change the task, the house or the person until they can do it.
Speech & Language Therapist
Keep people moving
You help people say what they mean and swallow without choking — two things nobody thinks about until one of them stops working.
Dietitian
Keep people moving
You work out what somebody can actually eat when their body has stopped handling food normally — and it is a clinical decision, not advice about being healthy.
Physiotherapist
Right steps, right order
You get bodies moving again after injury or illness — and most of the skill is knowing how much is enough and when to stop.
Phlebotomist
Right steps, right order
You take blood from up to sixty people a day, including the ones nobody else could get, and you make sure every tube has the right name on it.
Dental Hygienist
Right steps, right order
You clean below the gumline where nobody can reach at home, and you spot the things in a mouth that turn out not to be about teeth at all.
Audiologist
Right steps, right order
You measure exactly what somebody can and cannot hear, and then you give them as much of it back as the ear will allow.
Sterile Services Technician
Right steps, right order
You take back every instrument used in every operation, and you send them out again genuinely sterile — and if you get it wrong, nobody finds out until somebody is infected.
Healthcare Assistant
Keep people moving
You do more of the hands-on care than anyone else in the building — and because you are with people longest, you are usually the first to notice something has changed.
Organ Donation Specialist Nurse
Keep people moving
You have the hardest conversation in medicine with a family on the worst day of their lives — and you do it well enough that they are still glad of it years later.
Hospitality & Tourism
19 careersFeeding people, housing them, and making a stranger's day work.
Chef
Right steps, right order
You spend the afternoon getting ready for two hours of chaos, and how well you prepared decides whether those two hours are cooking or panic.
Barista
Keep people moving
You make drinks that need to be right and fast at the same time, for a queue that can see exactly how long you are taking.
Hotel Housekeeper
Sort it, under pressure
You turn fourteen used rooms back into rooms that look like nobody has ever been in them, in an order that has to be exactly right.
Hotel Duty Manager
Sort it, under pressure
You are the most senior person in the building at three in the morning, and everything that nobody else can decide comes to you.
Head Housekeeper
Sort it, under pressure
You have a hundred rooms, eleven hours and nine people, and you decide in what order the building gets cleaned.
Catering Manager
Sort it, under pressure
You feed six hundred people in forty minutes, on a budget, and you are the person who has to know exactly what is in every dish.
Outdoor Instructor
Sort it, under pressure
You take other people's children up a hill or onto water, and the whole job is knowing when to turn round.
Cruise Hotel Officer
Sort it, under pressure
You run a hotel that cannot call anybody for help, is full of people who cannot leave, and is moving.
Baker
Right steps, right order
You turn flour and water into bread overnight, and almost everything you do is judged by hand rather than by a timer.
Pastry Chef
Right steps, right order
You work to the gram and to the degree, in the coldest corner of the kitchen, on the part of the meal people photograph.
Butcher
Right steps, right order
You break a carcass down into the cuts people recognise, following the animal's own seams rather than sawing through it.
Kitchen Porter
Right steps, right order
You keep the whole kitchen supplied with clean equipment — and if you stop, service stops about eleven minutes later.
Sommelier
Right steps, right order
You read a table, find the bottle that suits what they are eating and what they want to spend, and serve it in an order that has a reason behind every step.
Restaurant Manager
Keep people moving
You run a room of strangers eating, a kitchen under pressure and a team who are all tired, and you keep all three of them working together.
Concierge
Keep people moving
You know the city well enough to solve a stranger's problem in ten minutes, and you know which promises you can actually keep.
Bartender
Keep people moving
You serve drinks fast and accurately to people who are gradually getting less reasonable, and you are legally responsible for when to stop.
Front of House Supervisor
Keep people moving
You run a section during service — who goes where, in what order, and which table gets the next thing that comes out of the kitchen.
Events Coordinator
Keep people moving
You run a day that happens once, cannot be rehearsed and cannot be repeated, for people who will remember it for the rest of their lives.
Tour Guide
Keep people moving
You take a group of strangers somewhere, keep all of them safe and interested at the same time, and tell them the truth about it.
Law & Public Safety
3 careersThe people who run towards the thing everyone else runs from.
Firefighter
Sort it, under pressure
You arrive at something dangerous with one crew and a few minutes, and you decide the order things get done in — because the order is what decides who gets out.
Emergency Dispatcher
Keep people moving
You answer the phone on the worst day of a stranger's life, work out what is actually happening, and get the right help moving — usually in under a minute.
Forensic Technician
Right steps, right order
You record a room exactly as it was found and collect what is in it, in an order strict enough that a court will believe you years later.
Agriculture & Nature
18 careersGrowing it, catching it, and looking after the land it came from.
Veterinary Surgeon
Sort it, under pressure
You diagnose patients who cannot tell you anything, in front of an owner who can — and the owner is often wrong about what they saw.
Farm Manager
Sort it, under pressure
You run a business whose main supplier is the weather, and you make decisions in spring that you do not find out about until autumn.
Shepherd
Sort it, under pressure
You look after a flock that hides illness by instinct, and for six weeks a year you deliver lambs at three in the morning.
Animal Welfare Inspector
Sort it, under pressure
You go to somebody's property after a complaint, decide whether an animal is suffering, and are the person who has to say so out loud.
Water Bailiff
Sort it, under pressure
You patrol a river, check that people fishing it are allowed to, and work out where the thing that killed the fish came from.
Fisheries Officer
Sort it, under pressure
You board working fishing boats at sea and check that what is in the hold matches what the law and the quota allow.
Ecologist
Sort it, under pressure
You survey a piece of land before it is built on, and you are the person who says whether what is living there stops the build.
Agronomist
Keep people moving
You walk fields for a living and tell farmers what to put on them, when, and — more often than anyone expects — that they should put nothing on at all.
Soil Scientist
Keep people moving
You dig holes and read what is underneath, which decides whether a place can grow food, hold a building, or be lived on safely.
Marine Biologist
Keep people moving
You study things living in water you cannot breathe in, which means most of the job is designing a way to find out rather than looking.
Countryside Ranger
Keep people moving
You look after a piece of countryside that belongs to everybody, which means managing the habitat, the livestock and the public at the same time.
Veterinary Nurse
Right steps, right order
You run the anaesthetic while the vet operates, which means for that hour the animal's breathing is your responsibility and nobody else's.
Forestry Worker
Right steps, right order
You fell trees deliberately, in a direction you chose, using cuts that decide where several tonnes of timber is going to land.
Arborist
Right steps, right order
You climb into a living structure on ropes and take it apart in an order that keeps it holding you up the whole time.
Beekeeper
Right steps, right order
You open a box containing fifty thousand animals that can all sting you, and you read the colony's health from what is drawn on the frames.
Dairy Technician
Right steps, right order
You milk a herd twice a day, every day of the year, and the routine you follow is what decides whether they stay healthy.
Horticulturist
Right steps, right order
You make new plants from old ones and keep them alive through the stage where almost anything kills them.
Farrier
Right steps, right order
You trim and shoe horses' feet, which is anatomy, blacksmithing and handling a half-tonne animal, at the same time, bent double.
Architecture & Construction
22 careersDrawing a building, then actually standing it up.
Plumber
Sort it, under pressure
You find the leak, which is almost never where the damp is, and you work out what to turn off before you touch anything.
Site Manager
Sort it, under pressure
You run a site where eight different trades all need the same space on the same day, and you are the person who can stop any of them.
Groundworker
Sort it, under pressure
You dig the holes and lay the drains everything else depends on, and the two things that can kill you are collapse and what is already buried.
Building Control Inspector
Sort it, under pressure
You inspect work at the stages where it can still be seen, and you are the person who fails a pour nobody wants failed.
Structural Engineer
Sort it, under pressure
You calculate whether a building will stand up, and you put your name on the answer.
Demolition Supervisor
Sort it, under pressure
You take a building down in the reverse order it went up, and the two things that decide whether anybody gets hurt are sequence and asbestos.
Fire Safety Engineer
Sort it, under pressure
You design how everybody gets out of a building that is on fire, and how long the building has to hold up while they do.
Retrofit Insulation Installer
Sort it, under pressure
You make old houses warm, and the whole skill is doing it without trapping moisture inside the wall.
Architect
Keep people moving
You decide what a building is — how it is entered, lit, used and lived in — inside a budget, a site and a set of regulations that all say no.
Quantity Surveyor
Keep people moving
You work out what a building will cost before it exists, and then you defend or challenge every change to that number.
Crane Operator
Keep people moving
You move several tonnes through the air over people's heads, mostly without being able to see where it is going.
Heat Pump Engineer
Keep people moving
You replace a boiler with something that runs at half the temperature, which means you have to redesign how every room in the house gets warm.
Glazier
Keep people moving
You fit glass, which is heavy, sharp and unforgiving — and you decide which kind of glass the law requires in each location.
Damp & Timber Surveyor
Keep people moving
You work out why a wall is wet, which is almost never the reason the last person said, and you are paid by people who sell the cure.
Electrician
Right steps, right order
You install and test circuits that will be hidden inside walls, and the only thing that ever stands between a fault and a fire is that you tested it properly.
Carpenter
Right steps, right order
You set out, mark and cut timber to fit a building that is never quite square, and you only get to cut each piece once.
Bricklayer
Right steps, right order
You build walls to a line, level and plumb, at a speed that decides whether the job makes money — and the line is not a suggestion.
Scaffolder
Right steps, right order
You build the structure everybody else works from, and you build it while standing on the part you have already built.
Roofer
Right steps, right order
You keep water out of a building using overlapping pieces and gravity, working on a slope, above everything else.
Plasterer
Right steps, right order
You put a wet material on a wall and have a fixed number of minutes to make it flat, because it is setting while you work.
Steel Erector
Right steps, right order
You bolt a building's skeleton together in the air, and the frame is not stable until you have finished making it stable.
Land Surveyor
Right steps, right order
You establish where everything goes, to millimetres, and every other trade on the site builds off your marks without checking them.
Arts & Media
18 careersMaking the thing people watch, hear, read and remember.
Journalist
Sort it, under pressure
You find out what happened and publish it, and the whole job is the gap between what you have been told and what you can actually stand behind.
Fact Checker
Sort it, under pressure
You establish whether something is true before it reaches an audience — and the volume of things needing checked is growing faster than anything else in media.
Photojournalist
Sort it, under pressure
You have to be physically present at the moment something happens, and then decide what you are entitled to photograph.
Broadcast Engineer
Sort it, under pressure
You keep the signal going out, and when something breaks you have seconds rather than minutes to decide what to do about it.
Conservator
Sort it, under pressure
You look after objects that cannot be replaced, and most of your decisions are about doing less rather than more.
Audio Describer
Sort it, under pressure
You describe what is on screen or on stage for blind and partially sighted audiences, in the gaps between the dialogue, and the gaps are about three seconds long.
Stage Manager
Keep people moving
You run the performance from the book — every lighting, sound and scene change happens because you said go.
Live Sound Engineer
Keep people moving
You mix a performance live in a room whose acoustics change when the audience arrives, and there is no second take.
Sign Language Interpreter
Keep people moving
You carry meaning between two languages live, in both directions, with no time to think and no way to go back.
Documentary Director
Keep people moving
You film real people's lives and then decide, in an edit, what their story was — and they have to live with the version you chose.
Art Director
Keep people moving
You decide what good looks like on a project, and then you have to be able to say why — to people who disagree and people who are paying.
Lighting Technician
Right steps, right order
You hang, cable and focus lanterns above people's heads, then build the states a show is seen in.
Camera Operator
Right steps, right order
You frame and move a camera in real time, and once the moment has happened your shot is either there or it is not.
Film Editor
Right steps, right order
You decide what the film is, out of everything that was shot, and the order and the timing are the performance.
Costume Maker
Right steps, right order
You make clothes for a specific body to perform in, which has to survive eight shows a week and come off in ninety seconds.
Scenic Carpenter
Right steps, right order
You build sets that have to look solid, be light enough to move, and come apart again in about an hour.
Luthier
Right steps, right order
You make and repair stringed instruments, judging wood by how it sounds when you tap it rather than by how it looks.
Piano Tuner
Right steps, right order
You tune around two hundred and thirty strings by ear to a system of deliberate compromises, and then make the mechanism work.
Information Technology
1 careersBuilding the invisible machinery everything else now runs on.
Transport & Logistics
1 careersMoving people and things, and knowing exactly where they are.
Being built next
Thirteen more clusters, plus the two districts where the money you earn actually goes somewhere.
🏪 Founder's Row
Spend your wages on a stall, then a shop, then a company — and find out that the job you just did is somebody's cost. Eight legal forms, twelve industries, and a business that can fail.
🏠 Home Base
The life skills that are not a career: a shopping list against a budget, a week of time you can run out of, and how to say the difficult thing well.
Frequently asked questions
- What is Life Skills World?
- A free game where children work a shift at a real job instead of reading about it. Each shift is the actual core decision of that career — sorting patients as a paramedic, scrubbing in as a surgical nurse, running a queue as a pharmacist.
- What age is it for?
- Roughly ages 7–16. Every career sets its own level of play, and the same shift runs untimed with visible hints for younger children and timed without them for older ones.
- Does it cost anything or need an account?
- No. It is free, there is no sign-up, and the collection of career cards is stored in your own browser rather than on our servers.
- How does it teach a career path?
- Every career card carries the honest route in: what you start with at school, what training it needs, how long it takes, and the actual first job title — not the dream one.