Professions

Profession Templates are meta-traits that mainly consist of skillsets, though some of them come with Advantages and Disadvantages by their nature. As you make your character, keep in mind two things about profession templates: one, they're essentially suggestions. You can alter them at will or just come up with your own, GURPS doesn't have character classes. Two, they are designed to have a place in the game world, and that's what the templates reflect. If you cast yourself as an Agent, it is a lot easier for the GM to write you into the game world than it is if you are, say, an Erotic Performance Fluffer, which I will not be statting (but feel free if that's the character you want to be meeting aliens and unravelling conspiracies with.) The best option is to take an existing template and, if it doesn't match your character concept, tweak it with skills that you want to put on it to make it into the exact vision of your character. Another thing to keep in mind is that even though technically 25 of your starting character points are specifically given to spend on Profession Templates, you are able to spend them anywhere, very few professions cost that much, and you are free to 'stack' professions until you run out of your points if you so choose.

Index of Professions

Academician - A scholar, researcher, and scientific and/or engineering expert.
Agent - A clandestine information warrior.
Aristocrat - Member of one of the noble houses, the soil from which Technocrats and officers are generally born.
Bountineer - A bounty hunter and privateer, authorized to hunt criminals while behaving ever-so-slightly criminal themselves.
Commando - A small-warfare soldier, special forces, guerilla.
Condemned - A nerve stapled convict.
Corsico Player - A player of the high-octane game of Corsico.
Criminal - A member of the underworld, crime; organized or otherwise.
Cultist - A secret religious agent.
Cyberjack - A hacker, expert in programming and cyberwarfare.
Deadjack - A necromancer of the far-future.
Enforcer - Police, mafia enforcers, corporate security, etc. Those who enforce the rules on behalf of people and organizations more powerful than themselves.
Engineer - The workhorses of technology.
Freelance Artificial Intelligence Compliance Agent - Robot hunters.
Genefreak - A subculture of punkish youths who use genetic modification and nanosurgery to alter their forms and abilities, often in mimickry of animals or monsters from folklore.
Gourmand - A subculture of chefs and gourmets looking for new flavors and recipes from across the stars.
Journo - Journalists of the far future, individuals, mostly freelance, who seek out stories of public interest and post them on the SolarNet.
Kthoniker - People who study and interact with Redspace Adversarial Intelligences.
Nouveau Palatine - A neo-reactionary group seeking to create a monarchy.
Order Militant - A soldier in service to a religious organization.
Order Scribe - A keeper of history for one of the organized religions.
Pilot - Those who fly starships, drive mechs, tanks, or hovercraft, or otherwise operate large vehicles.
Priest - Leaders of religious groups.
Psychojack - A hacker of the organic mind.
Retrieval Surgeon - A surgeon that works for a corporation to repossess organs, cybernetics, or implants if the bill was unpaid.
Seiokakeru Ronin - A subculture of warriors preparing for an 'inevitable' conflict with aliens. Always seeking improvement of their art.
Spacemonkey - A generalized starship crewman with a reputation for working hard and playing harder.
Techno-Barbarian - A subculture of people who long for an earlier, simple time in technology.
Technocrat - An expert on a government database who can be called upon to perform their expertise whenever the government needs it.
Terrorist - A fighter and radical activist who is taking a violent fight to a much more powerful entity, often if not always using war crimes in an attempt to punch above their weight.
Tyro - A scholarly field agent for universities and academies.
Xenohunter - Someone who hunts for new and interesting alien life.
Zealot - True believers of a religion that burn with a desire to spread it.