So, /sfg/, you've decided to go to the Moon.
What path do you choose?
>Laborer
Welcome to oil rig work on steroids. You'll be in construction or mining, mostly surface operations. Get ready for 12-hour shifts in a spacesuit, or heavy machinery with a pressurized cabin if you're lucky. Fatality rates outstrip any job you'll find on Earth. However, you'll be making $100+ an hour, enough for a decent living on the Moon or a very early retirement back on Earth.
>Homesteader
Maybe it's a farm, a small ice mine, or even a drug operation, but you earn your keep by producing something the Lunar economy needs, either independently or with a small community. You had to get your start with a loan from one of the Lunar Development Firms, but independence is only 20 years away at your current income.
>Surface Pirate
Your life is thrilling but dangerous, full of raids on mines and other operations in the interest of securing equipment, resources, or goods. The clan you run with might operate out of a base no larger than a single modular hab, or the size of a small town. Your life expectancy is not high.
>Tunnel Ganger
You and the surface pirates stay out of each other's turf. You have a marginally lower chance of dying than they do. Tunnel gangs usually run a nuclear tunneling machine and make some legitimate money by selling prospecting data and mining claims in addition to crime. Occasionally you'll find tunnels that aren't in any database, and mysterious automated tunneling machines with no crew.
>Techno-cultist
You attended some "optional meetings" at one of the first Lunar mining companies, and now you live miles under the surface with a cult leader who wants to "reach perfect union with the holy machine" or whatever that means. Your body is at least 30% machine, and you spend all day maintaining computers or hunting tunnel gangers for their biomass, but at least when your boss achieves his goal and emerges to lay waste to humanity, you'll be safe underground.
