Just watched an episode with a Mareep herder. They intentionally bring to Mareep under thunderstorms to charge them. On this same line is the MooMoo Farm. Also saw a 'sode where Hoppop helped pollinate some plants. Any other Poké-farming jobs come to mind?
We should also make a distinction between Pokémon-related jobs, and non-Pokémon related jobs. But I bet Pokémon could assist in just about any job. For any job, one thing that motivates people to choose it is heredity, or rather - their parents did the job, so they slip right into it. Or maybe they've dreamed of becoming a Pokémon trainer, but have a disability and must tend a Shop, or some such.
I imagine people who choose a unique path for themselves do it for reasons similar to ourselves. They hear about it somehow, and it lines up perfectly with their personal interests. Their childhood consists of dreaming and working toward that goal, and then post-school they achieve it.
I bet a lot of people start off trying to become Pokémon trainers, but then give up early in their adventure because they're not up to the demands, or decide it's not for them.

I had a similar idea, and I noticed there was a pokemon school/academy in one of the eps in the early series. I figure that there are a few mothers who don't let their children become pokemon trainers, as I noticed that the pokemon gang seem to live like hobos, camping out in the wild and surviving on nothing but what they can get by winning battles.

Then again, would you let your children leave at a tender age, and having them drop by intermittently, with long periods of no contact but possibly E-mail? (ash seems to contact Prof. Oak more than his mother...)

I would like to see a redneck in the Pokémon world. Wrasslin' Feraligatrs, shootin' Zigzagoons, playin' the banjo with his trusty Mightyeena by his side.

I'd probably be an architect. Not sure why, but it seems cool.

You could only been a trainer for so long. You start at age 10, how long does it take until you want something new?

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Kids start playing baseball at an even younger age, and some of them go on to play in the Major Leagues. The same thing applies here, but they'd probably just settle down and become a Gym Leader or something.

Well I'd assume that there would be a large number of trainers who set out on there journy, challenged a gym leader, lets say Brock, and lost their first battle, then went off and trained their Pokemon, then lost the next battle, and just kept losing until they said "Ahhh Fuck It! I'm gonna become a builder/pluber/whatever and you bastards (looking at their Pkemon) can help me you useless things!"

Also there are probably people who relise that if everyone else is off training Pokemon there is no one to do real jobs, and hence think they could make a fortune.

I wonder how many others are chore-slaves?

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Aunt Jemima Jynx.