You missed the inside of the actual warehouse. You had to steal the warehouse key to do it. Also that dude that died said dragon Bridge he was the mayor of said town. Yes a town mayor.
A fletcher is someone who makes arrows. The feathers of the arrow shaft is the fletchings. Attatching the arrowhead, carving the wood, and gluing the feathers, is the processes of fletching.
I had a Minecraft world where I managed and expanded a village. Tracked unemployment tracked what sectors were filled by what percent of people, population growth, etc. Can you tell my initial degree at college was for accounting
Forsworn foragers might be considered employed since they forage for the rest of the encampment (although we don't actually see this take place). They probably don't get paid but it is work.
As someone who works for the census bureau and has been a data collection manager of the current population survey (cps) where the U.S unemployment estimates are derived, I'm equally amused and fascinated by this series.
I love the little detail of how you can hear him click a pen to note that someone is employed. I can just picture this guy with a head full of hair clips walking around with a clipboard, pen at the ready, patiently waiting for these people to finish telling him their life story in order to mark down their status.
I do think an Acolyte should count as employed. Most acolytes shown in ES works operate as basically assistants to other priests. They're more like apprentices than volunteer helpers.
Apprentices generally count as Economically Inactive rather than employed or unemployed as they're doing a role like a student and aren't in proper employment
@@legatelaurie They really shouldn't. Especially not in a medieval context. Its "I'll show you how to do this thing, now do it. Okay, that was good, now do it a hundred times while I go do something else". Or its "You get to do all the stuff that I don't want to do because its grunt work". Its not a student role in the sense that its generally meant, because they are a paid worker. They're a paid worker who is learning on the job. In a medieval context, an apprenticeship is generally a way to limit entry into a field as a protectionist measure while also letting shop owners get away with paying a worker like a third of what they could get if they were a journeyman with the same knowledge base.
The person who made this video exudes a very peculiar chaotic-yet-harmless energy. This ia a fascinating way of playing Skyrim, roleplaying as an Imperial census agent. I was entertained. Well done.
- The madman is employed as a servant by Sheogorath, who is unemployed - The dead guy lives in Dragon Bridge, which is technically within the same hold as Solitude, but should be considered a separate location nonetheless - I believe you skipped Beirand and Fihada, who work at the blacksmith and fletcher, respectively - You may have missed an executioner by the name of Ahtar, although he may have been counted off-camera during the Castle Dour incursion - All members of the Red Wave are pirates who do not reside in Solitude, and as such should be disregarded
Sheogorath has been taking an extended vacation with Pelagius and has been neglecting his estate so I think the madman is in furlough essentially, thus would be considered unemployed. At the end of the quest he becomes employed again but for now he's not.
I'm highly offended you would call Dervinin unemployed, he's a personal servant to an illustrious guest of an Emperor of Tamriel himself! And I'll have you know being a madman is a traditional occupation of the Shivering Isles, very respectable.
This entire count is all out of sorts, entire professions skipped over, employed madmen of the Shivering Isles (not even a Solitude resident) being thrown in with the unemployed, people claiming to be from Dragon Bridge being in the count, pirates being included... What a mess.
@@YourWaywardDestiny Dragon Bridge is part of Solitude, same as how Riverwood is part of Whiterun, so really the actual flaw here is it in including people from Dragon Bridge, but in ONLY including people from there that happened to be in Solitude at the time and not going down to Dragon Bridge itself to take their employment rates too.
@@Bone8380 This is the count of a specific city-- Solitude, not of Haafingar over all. Dragon Bridge is not a part of the city, even if that is the seat of power for the entire hold.
I have to say, I really appreciate the work that goes into making the text follow the person's head instead of just being a flat bit of text put over the video. I'm sure it takes a lot more editing effort, and its a small thing, but thank you. It makes me giggle when it does something funny.
I feel like it would be neat to see an entire hold surveyed. Going to the hold capital, as well as the small towns, and forts, and sawmills, and other things.
@@donniejefferson9554 Winterhold itself is barely a capital hold to begin with though, all it has is the college, a single trader, an inn, and the governmental jobs like the jarl, their advisors, and the guards. The enumerator for Solitude described the hold as a college town and while the Bards College is a major part of Solitude, it also has the Imperial Legion and a major regional location of thr East Empire Trading Company, so I feel this assessment was inaccurate, and Winterhold is a much better candidate for the "college town" description, as the college is literally all Winterhold has.
It's 2am. It's quiet; the sound of crickets close and sirens afar. You hear a strange noise and awake from your slumber; only to gasp and find a shadowy figure standing by your bed. But don't worry, it's just Austin. He just wants to know if you're employed.
Fletching is arrow making lmao EDIT: Also, there are people inside of the Empire Company warehouse that presumably live in Solitude or on one of the nearby farms.
I was a supervisor in the 2020 Census (in Minneapolis too!) and holy SHIT this strikes a chord. You are the best, most dedicated Enumerator of all time and I would literally kill to have you on my team. Please please PLEASE do more of these.
Now we need a direct comparison with Windhelm. This is another facet of the Civil War that needs to be answered, and I am curious if "Skyrim for the Nords" also is focused on getting high employment.
Windhelm undoubtedly has a much higher unemployment rate, if only for the higher homeless population courtesy of Nord incompetence and racism. -this post was fact checked by a true Imperial patriot
@@lordofshades9852 theres rolff stone-fist and angrenor once-honoured right? the one you can beat up and the one you can marry who will still beg for coin from you when married. silda the unseen too, who trains your pickpocket and has the squarest face in skyrim.
@@lordofshades9852 Windhelm has slums (Grey Quarter), Solitude does not. Argonians are forced to live in the shacks outside the city walls, which would made them all homeless.
These are the kind of videos you watch when you have to be up early for work the next morning but you just can't help yourself. I hope you continue this series and do all the major cities.
This might seem rude but these are my absolute favorite videos to fall asleep to. Interesting enough so my thoughts don’t wander but comforting and chill enough to fall asleep to. Thank you for making these!
Surely being dead counts as not applicable and not unemployed, right? Also in the press conference I did just see that our government agent accidentally forgot to delete his footage of murdering Varnius. Obviously this raises questions of morality and legality, but it also raises an even more important question: What should be reported as the truth if the actions of the surveyor directly influence the results of the survey? It's a question that's plagued quantum physicists for a long time, and I feel that for this series too, we need an answer!
Austin I love this series and if you decide to do Markarth please do the quest for Namira with the cannibal cult. I love the idea of the Enumerator joining Namira's cult just so he can determine which of them are employed and which aren't. The Bureau authorizes cannibalism for the purposes of enumeration. Also it might be funny to see the employment rate of the Foresworn.
You should definitely take this idea to Oblivion as the NPCs there usually have more detailed routines and a ton of them just blurt out their occupation at you. Imperial City would be pretty big and long but any of the other cities would be perfect for this kinda thing as well
If you ever feel like doing an employment survey of an entire solar system, I'd absolutely love to get an economic report on the Hearthian System in Outer Wilds
“Diane; this guys obviously working, but he’s also a reanimated skeleton. I’m not sure what the rules are on that, I’ll have to email the bureau” - Special Agent Dale Cooper, Twin Peaks Season 4 probably
If you had bothered talking to Dervein, you would hear him refer to his master. If you followed up by completing the related quest, you would understand that he is most definitely employed.
you probably could have counted the east empire company warehouse, in there are many guards, but I would accept the argument that they might not be citizens from solitude. also, the guy speaking to the jarl when you first enter the palace (the one that died to a dragon) does not live in solitude, he lives at dragonbridge (as he sais himself). and the only other questionable thing is if you should count general tullius, legate rikke and other imperial soldiers (some of them are locals, but not all of them as stated in the game) . I think, they are specifically not part of solitude and rather sent from the empire. Oh yeah, and dervenin is also technically an out-of-towner, and also "employed" by sheogorath. sheogorath is also just visiting, and pelagius III would either be considered retired, incapable of work or just dead I think, you usually do these videos with the perspective of someone not knowing the place and thats totally fine, I like it. but those things could be technically more accurate
I think soldiers stationed in Solitude should count as employed by the city even if they originate from other cities because they're still living there, only on a long-term temporary basis. Also the city technically still has to pay them, even if they're getting paid by Cyrodiil to pay the soldiers.
Since the blocking of the Pale Pass, the Empire sources all of its recruits locally. The ones who aren't locals arrived with Tullius when he first entered the province and took up command.
I don't know anything about Skyrim, but if the empire's castle is in Solitude, and the soldiers are employed by the empire, isn't Solitude the most logical place to count them as employed in?
@@SolMasterzzz in solitude, there is a stronghold of the empire, but not the main palace. That would be in the Imperial City, which is not in Skyrim. The higher-ups of the army, like Tullius and Rikke are brought in from there, and i would bet that they are not paid by solitude, at most the money would be relayed to them by solitude. they are not employed by the city. @Bone8380 but i see the reason some say the stationed soldiers could be employed by the city, but mainly because they are also used as city guards (as per their name) and would at least be counted as employed in the city
Hey mate just wanted to let you know these are very comforting videos for me. I’ll probably be rewatching them for years to come. Thanks for the amazing content, I plan/hope to become a patron once I have more money coming my way!
These videos are always great Austin! I enjoy content like this. EDIT: I'm pretty sure fletching is putting feathers on arrows. Or just arrow making more generally.
I think it'd be pretty fun to survey one of the cities in Morrowind. You can ask pretty much anyone what their background and occupation are, and they'll give you an answer.
Thanks for your research about the unemployment rate in the land of Skyrim. Please continue the series and when you're done, inform us about the amount of unemployment in cyrodiil during the oblivioncrisis. Please.
14:56 Had me burst out laughing. However in your brief interaction back in the blue blue manor with Varnius he mentioned he was going back to Dragon Bridge, which is a town outside of Solitude, so he would've been N/A for this video.
3:00 I would argue that anyone in the priesthood might technically be employed as medical professionals in this setting. You know, healing magic and all.
Yessss more of the skyrim unemployment series!! for some reason these are just the best to me, and you bring the perfect cadence of like a beleaguered but dedicated public sector employee
dervenin's employment is under question as he serves a daedric lord, though it's unlikely he's being paid for this service. he also will ask for money like other beggar NPCs. I would call him an out of towner at the very least because in his quest, he asks his master, "Are we going home?" After which they vanish from the game world.
Even though Jaree-Ra might state he is a treasure hunter he is a bandit actually. His quest involves extinguishing a fire on a lighttower that causes a ship to crash next to the player home of Morthal. Gulum-Ei is part of the thieves guild.
Gulum-Ei isn't actually part of the Thieves' Guild. He's a crooked employee of the East Empire Company who does business with the Guild from time to time.
It would be a very, very ambitious project, but it would be nice to see you bring this sort of idea to the Imperial City in Oblivion, or even to one of the other capitals in Cyrodiil, like Anvil or Skiingrad. This is a very entertaining series and it would be great to see it expanded beyond the reaches of just the province of Skyrim (even if you have to go back a few centuries to the time period of Oblivion ;P)
I'd be interested to learn if Bravil truly is the most economically dead city in Cyrodiil, or if it's somehow beaten out in unemployment by like... Leyawiin. Because Southeast Cyrodiil is a terrible place to live.
At that point you could also just go ahead and do a full economic analysis of the empire, including trade flows between regions, economic activity and niches in different areas, the importance of impirial beurocracy (of course very high!) and maybe even make some macro-economic suggestions for the empire!
I feel like Bruma would have the lowest employment, outside of the castle, and the inn, the rest are houses, and then you have the fighters and mages guild having the lowest numbers attending them, most are just unemployed residents.
3:50 This made me want to know what fletching was so I tried googling it but I accidentally typed in "fleching" which apparently means "licking or sucking semen out of a partner's anus" so I was really confused as to what that character's job was within the city of Solitude.
I have to say, I absolutely love this series, and the angle - in fact, I love the angle of other series' on here as well like the 'strange places' - very liminal. Brilliant stuff.
these unemployment videos literally make my day when they post. would love to see you make more! they are always fun regardless of what game/town you do
3:58 he’s employed. A fletcher is a person who makes arrows. They were well paid because a king could order millions of arrows, instantly making all the fletchers in a region rich
1:12 - Hang on, but does he mean his working days are done _for the rest of his life_ or, like, for the month? Maybe he's, I dunno, a farmer, he's just finally finished harvesting his crops for the year, and he's got another 3 months before he needs to start tilling and planting and whatever it is farmers do? 3:52 - Fletching is making arrows. So this guy could be here to apprentice as an arrow-maker... or could just be here to buy some good-ass arrows.
I love the saga of following, protecting, and unfortunately losing the guy who ultimately lives in dragon bridge for the solitude employment survey census 😂
This is the best installment of this series yet. So much plot development and so many satisfying payoffs to early series setups. Truly shows the scope of the author's vision. 10/10 highly recommend.
You missed those in the East Empire Company Warehouse. I counted 6 employed people (guards and dockworkers) and 1 unemployed person (some homeless dude), bringing the unemployment rate up to 3.9% from 2.9%. There were more people (hired bandits) in Brinewater Grotto, which is a dungeon inside the EECW, but I killed them while completing the Scoundrel's Folly questline, so they weren’t there anymore. Videos suggest that 10 bandits spawn in there, so that’s another 10 employed people and 0 unemployed, bringing the unemployment rate down a bit to 3.5%.
Speaking of Paper Mario…. Rouge Port would be a a fantastic episode for this series. Although it changes a bit throughout the game so I feel like it’d be most accurate to take the report at the end.
I love all the episodes of this series I’ve seen so far, and it’s so fun how committed to the character of a gov official you are in them. I wanna see a small town one next. Winterhold or Morthal, maybe? (I’d also love to see another episode of Skyrim restaurant inspection, that one was such a blast)
Not sure if anyone mentioned, but fletching (maybe fletchery?) is the production of archery supplies, more specifically arrows (from 'fletching', the stabilizer fins on the back of an arrow) but has come to encompass bows, crossbows, and bolts
You should do a city in TES2 Daggerfall for shits and giggles. Given a lot of them are just procedurally generated NPCs, I'm sure their unemployement rate is abysmally high, but it would be really funny to watch you try and meticulously go through everyone's homes and question as much NPCs as you reasonably can.
I would be interested to know how real-life enumerations are conducted in port cities, places where you would expect a lot of people who are employed by organisations in other countries and are passing through the port. There was no realistic way to assess this in Solitude, and so I understand why a generalisation might have been made, but I find it extremely unlikely that everyone employed at the East Empire Company docks was a resident of Solitude - and therefore counted towards Solitude's unemployment rate - especially considering the relatively nearby Company offices located on Vvardenfell (might have been lost after the eruption) and on Solstheim (confirmed to exist in 4E201).
this is purely a guess but i’d assume that as long as they’re hired legally they probably have a work visa or other documentation showing that they’re not employed in the country they’re passing through. so like if they’re working off the ship (since the ship is technically the “soil” of whatever country it’s register in) it’s because they’ve got proof they can work and be paid through the country they’re currently in and someone trying to do those stats would be made aware
you people are crazy for unemployment. Support the channel- www.patreon.com/any_austin
Who wouldn't be?
You make us sound like monsters Austin.
We're just passionate about civil service! Everyone should at least have an idea of what their local government is doing.
You missed the inside of the actual warehouse. You had to steal the warehouse key to do it. Also that dude that died said dragon Bridge he was the mayor of said town. Yes a town mayor.
A fletcher is someone who makes arrows. The feathers of the arrow shaft is the fletchings. Attatching the arrowhead, carving the wood, and gluing the feathers, is the processes of fletching.
My reason for going to the gym is that someone sees me in public and thinks "their biceps are gigantic, they are probably an active mercenary.
And as long as you don’t say anything, the bureau of labor statistics will have to guess and will assume you are a mercenary and is employed
@@achmodinivswe9500 the silent and brooding possibly-a-mercenary
More like an independent contractor, a freelancer.
Just like blahino
@@512TheWolf512 self employed is employed.
this series will inspire at least one real life young person to join the bureau of labor statistics
Hi that's me
@@oldaniiplease keep me updated on you thrilling adventures as an agent of the BLS. I look forward to be audited by you
@@_its_lunar_ same here
@@oldaniiWe will watch your career with great interest.
I had a Minecraft world where I managed and expanded a village. Tracked unemployment tracked what sectors were filled by what percent of people, population growth, etc. Can you tell my initial degree at college was for accounting
17:08 "I don't wanna talk about slaves" sure hope you don't end up getting transfered to the morrowind branch of the bureau of labour statistics.
The Morrowind branch was buried under ash long ago
The N'wah don't count.
@@TheDinohunter2000time travel
The neraverine is a bum
@@TheDinohunter2000that’s the official story…
"In case we don't make it through this, I need you to tell me. Do you have a job?" Classic!
that guy literally said he doesn‘t life there and yet he counted him :(
@@CompanionCube Dead people wouldn't count anyway. Not until that inquiry as to if reanimated dead count at least.
Thank god this series is continuing, I NEED to know the average unemployment rate in all of Skyrim
I wonder how forsworn encampments will be considered
Forsworn foragers might be considered employed since they forage for the rest of the encampment (although we don't actually see this take place). They probably don't get paid but it is work.
Thank Talos!
When I watched the first video I thought 'man, who needs this? what a silly idea!' and now I know. It's me that needs this.
I want to see an employment map!
As someone who works for the census bureau and has been a data collection manager of the current population survey (cps) where the U.S unemployment estimates are derived, I'm equally amused and fascinated by this series.
What kind of credentials do you need to work for bls and cps ?
You collect cps for a living? 🤨
@@raxusveritasThat’s crazy 💀
Austin considers you a celebrity lol
Post some videos of your work
The new "Not Applicable" tag and sound effect is the most incredible advancement to this series thus far and fills my heart with so much joy.
Don't forget the colored printer. Huge improvement if I ever seen one
I love the little detail of how you can hear him click a pen to note that someone is employed. I can just picture this guy with a head full of hair clips walking around with a clipboard, pen at the ready, patiently waiting for these people to finish telling him their life story in order to mark down their status.
We see his argonian character occasionally and it always suprises me, because I imagine Austin’s character looking like an office worker
I do think an Acolyte should count as employed. Most acolytes shown in ES works operate as basically assistants to other priests. They're more like apprentices than volunteer helpers.
Apprentices generally count as Economically Inactive rather than employed or unemployed as they're doing a role like a student and aren't in proper employment
@@legatelaurie 3:40 we’ll if he considered this guy for being an apprentice as a job then so should the acolyte
@@lamp1585 Yeah, they should both be Economically inactive
@@legatelaurie They really shouldn't. Especially not in a medieval context. Its "I'll show you how to do this thing, now do it. Okay, that was good, now do it a hundred times while I go do something else". Or its "You get to do all the stuff that I don't want to do because its grunt work".
Its not a student role in the sense that its generally meant, because they are a paid worker. They're a paid worker who is learning on the job. In a medieval context, an apprenticeship is generally a way to limit entry into a field as a protectionist measure while also letting shop owners get away with paying a worker like a third of what they could get if they were a journeyman with the same knowledge base.
@@KahavaveCAPIPI same as it ever was same as it ever was
The person who made this video exudes a very peculiar chaotic-yet-harmless energy. This ia a fascinating way of playing Skyrim, roleplaying as an Imperial census agent. I was entertained. Well done.
Chaotic harmless energy = adhd. Maybe.
- The madman is employed as a servant by Sheogorath, who is unemployed
- The dead guy lives in Dragon Bridge, which is technically within the same hold as Solitude, but should be considered a separate location nonetheless
- I believe you skipped Beirand and Fihada, who work at the blacksmith and fletcher, respectively
- You may have missed an executioner by the name of Ahtar, although he may have been counted off-camera during the Castle Dour incursion
- All members of the Red Wave are pirates who do not reside in Solitude, and as such should be disregarded
I believe we also missed the inside of the East Empire Company Warehouse itself.
@@Tybuscus Oh, I thought I heard him counting that while I was alt-tabbed. My bad.
Also, the whole temple of the divines.
Sheogorath has been taking an extended vacation with Pelagius and has been neglecting his estate so I think the madman is in furlough essentially, thus would be considered unemployed. At the end of the quest he becomes employed again but for now he's not.
What about the light house and people inside the east empire Wearhouse?
The dialogue makes so much more sense when you’re roleplaying as a job surveyor
any channel that commits to the bit hard enough to have actual employment documentation for each video is one worth the world
What bit :^)
If you aren’t against it, there’s a mod to give guards actual names, might be help in surveying the employed if you can tell the guards apart more.
True, another good way would be to wait till night time when a good amount of the guards are in the barracks sleeping
What a time to be employed
Employment is for noobs. Try being unemployable, scrub
fellow 2 minute papers fan, is that you?
How the fuck are there 250 2 minute papers fans here?
Imagine the unemployment levels just two more cities down the line!
Spend hours on an employment survey in a video game: ✅
Spend 5 secs to Google what a fletcher is: ❌
I'm highly offended you would call Dervinin unemployed, he's a personal servant to an illustrious guest of an Emperor of Tamriel himself! And I'll have you know being a madman is a traditional occupation of the Shivering Isles, very respectable.
This entire count is all out of sorts, entire professions skipped over, employed madmen of the Shivering Isles (not even a Solitude resident) being thrown in with the unemployed, people claiming to be from Dragon Bridge being in the count, pirates being included... What a mess.
@@YourWaywardDestiny Dragon Bridge is part of Solitude, same as how Riverwood is part of Whiterun, so really the actual flaw here is it in including people from Dragon Bridge, but in ONLY including people from there that happened to be in Solitude at the time and not going down to Dragon Bridge itself to take their employment rates too.
@@Bone8380 This is the count of a specific city-- Solitude, not of Haafingar over all. Dragon Bridge is not a part of the city, even if that is the seat of power for the entire hold.
why did i read that in sheogoraths voice
Yeah, he's a sort of butler or something... so he should count as employed.
I have to say, I really appreciate the work that goes into making the text follow the person's head instead of just being a flat bit of text put over the video. I'm sure it takes a lot more editing effort, and its a small thing, but thank you. It makes me giggle when it does something funny.
yeah I really like that subtle effect!
It's the kind of thing that doubles your editing workload and adds 30% to your render times.
I feel like it would be neat to see an entire hold surveyed. Going to the hold capital, as well as the small towns, and forts, and sawmills, and other things.
Maybe he could do that for a nothing hold with a capital too small to make its own video. Winterhold would probably do. Maybe Morthal or Falkreath.
He could do a few of the smaller towns in a few videos specifically dedicated to that until we have the full employment rate of Skyrim
@KahavaveCAPIPI Not sure it would work too well for Winterhold. Only thing up there besides the capital is like 1 tiny mine
@@donniejefferson9554 Winterhold itself is barely a capital hold to begin with though, all it has is the college, a single trader, an inn, and the governmental jobs like the jarl, their advisors, and the guards.
The enumerator for Solitude described the hold as a college town and while the Bards College is a major part of Solitude, it also has the Imperial Legion and a major regional location of thr East Empire Trading Company, so I feel this assessment was inaccurate, and Winterhold is a much better candidate for the "college town" description, as the college is literally all Winterhold has.
@@KahavaveCAPIPI Tbf, there nothing in Winterhold except... Winterhold.
It's 2am. It's quiet; the sound of crickets close and sirens afar. You hear a strange noise and awake from your slumber; only to gasp and find a shadowy figure standing by your bed. But don't worry, it's just Austin.
He just wants to know if you're employed.
You’re not supposed to be here
Honestly solitude having the lowest unemployment rate really fits
I do wonder which hold has the highest unemployment rate. My vote is for either Winterhold or Windhelm.
@@Bone8380it’s probably markarth
@@Bone8380Riften? Is thief a "job"? I guess they do have a guild. ..
@@JB-xl2jcwhat we in the biz call a “labor union” 😉😉
Falkreath might be the lowest. Seems like everyone there has a job.
Refreshing to see someone play Skyrim as intended for once
LoversLab players be like "Unemployed? I can’t believe I slept with that guy"
Fletching is arrow making lmao
EDIT: Also, there are people inside of the Empire Company warehouse that presumably live in Solitude or on one of the nearby farms.
He even saw the warehouse key, he was so close
I was a supervisor in the 2020 Census (in Minneapolis too!) and holy SHIT this strikes a chord. You are the best, most dedicated Enumerator of all time and I would literally kill to have you on my team. Please please PLEASE do more of these.
Now we need a direct comparison with Windhelm. This is another facet of the Civil War that needs to be answered, and I am curious if "Skyrim for the Nords" also is focused on getting high employment.
Windhelm undoubtedly has a much higher unemployment rate, if only for the higher homeless population courtesy of Nord incompetence and racism.
-this post was fact checked by a true Imperial patriot
@Bone8380 actually I think Windhelm only has one homeless person, and the shatter-shields have a family business to boot
@@lordofshades9852 theres rolff stone-fist and angrenor once-honoured right? the one you can beat up and the one you can marry who will still beg for coin from you when married. silda the unseen too, who trains your pickpocket and has the squarest face in skyrim.
@@shrimpidimpii ah, right, two homeless folk. I think Rolf has a home tho
@@lordofshades9852 Windhelm has slums (Grey Quarter), Solitude does not. Argonians are forced to live in the shacks outside the city walls, which would made them all homeless.
The enumerator calling the Argonians things like "lizard" and "dragon" when he himself is a lizard-dragon
those are their words, they're allowed to call eachother that
These are the kind of videos you watch when you have to be up early for work the next morning but you just can't help yourself. I hope you continue this series and do all the major cities.
Literally what I'm doing 💀
Literally watching it at 3am when I have somewhere to be tomorrow.
Me too
"up early for work" ! thank you for your employment *green checkmark bar*
Yeah, it's nearly 3am as I watch this...
This might seem rude but these are my absolute favorite videos to fall asleep to. Interesting enough so my thoughts don’t wander but comforting and chill enough to fall asleep to. Thank you for making these!
RIP Varnius Junius. I’m going to have to talk to the Bureau of Labor Statistics about this one
Sybille Stentor says she thinks he's a fool and that's hard to argue against given these results
Surely being dead counts as not applicable and not unemployed, right?
Also in the press conference I did just see that our government agent accidentally forgot to delete his footage of murdering Varnius. Obviously this raises questions of morality and legality, but it also raises an even more important question: What should be reported as the truth if the actions of the surveyor directly influence the results of the survey? It's a question that's plagued quantum physicists for a long time, and I feel that for this series too, we need an answer!
Austin I love this series and if you decide to do Markarth please do the quest for Namira with the cannibal cult. I love the idea of the Enumerator joining Namira's cult just so he can determine which of them are employed and which aren't. The Bureau authorizes cannibalism for the purposes of enumeration. Also it might be funny to see the employment rate of the Foresworn.
it might just be the professionalism of a colour printer, but this felt like the best unemployment survey video yet!
He had the swagger of a man with a color printer
@@berrysyoutubecontent only few can pull it off and austin did with flying colours
You should definitely take this idea to Oblivion as the NPCs there usually have more detailed routines and a ton of them just blurt out their occupation at you. Imperial City would be pretty big and long but any of the other cities would be perfect for this kinda thing as well
AUSTIN READ THIS COMMENT
If you ever feel like doing an employment survey of an entire solar system, I'd absolutely love to get an economic report on the Hearthian System in Outer Wilds
I discovered Outer Wilds and what a masterclass, my discovery of the year 🪐
I would love that, hearthians are a relaxed bunch but there's a lot of employment happening
I would love to see this for Megaton in FO3 or anywhere in New Vegas.
I think Hateno Village would be really cool, too. These are so fun!
Yeees botw hateno village unemployment rate would be so fun
Ive recently gotten addicted to your unemployment content so Im literally gonna stay up late just to watch this Im so excited
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so what did you think?
Sounds like you need a job
LITERALLY SAME! in the short term it is a bad decision but in the long term it'll mean more unemployment vids bc this comment is more engagement
18:45 "Deeja's eyes are up here"
"He made his choice"
I'm glad someone else caught it.
“Diane; this guys obviously working, but he’s also a reanimated skeleton. I’m not sure what the rules are on that, I’ll have to email the bureau” - Special Agent Dale Cooper, Twin Peaks Season 4 probably
If you had bothered talking to Dervein, you would hear him refer to his master. If you followed up by completing the related quest, you would understand that he is most definitely employed.
you probably could have counted the east empire company warehouse, in there are many guards, but I would accept the argument that they might not be citizens from solitude. also, the guy speaking to the jarl when you first enter the palace (the one that died to a dragon) does not live in solitude, he lives at dragonbridge (as he sais himself). and the only other questionable thing is if you should count general tullius, legate rikke and other imperial soldiers (some of them are locals, but not all of them as stated in the game) . I think, they are specifically not part of solitude and rather sent from the empire.
Oh yeah, and dervenin is also technically an out-of-towner, and also "employed" by sheogorath. sheogorath is also just visiting, and pelagius III would either be considered retired, incapable of work or just dead
I think, you usually do these videos with the perspective of someone not knowing the place and thats totally fine, I like it. but those things could be technically more accurate
I think soldiers stationed in Solitude should count as employed by the city even if they originate from other cities because they're still living there, only on a long-term temporary basis. Also the city technically still has to pay them, even if they're getting paid by Cyrodiil to pay the soldiers.
Since the blocking of the Pale Pass, the Empire sources all of its recruits locally. The ones who aren't locals arrived with Tullius when he first entered the province and took up command.
I don't know anything about Skyrim, but if the empire's castle is in Solitude, and the soldiers are employed by the empire, isn't Solitude the most logical place to count them as employed in?
@@SolMasterzzz in solitude, there is a stronghold of the empire, but not the main palace. That would be in the Imperial City, which is not in Skyrim.
The higher-ups of the army, like Tullius and Rikke are brought in from there, and i would bet that they are not paid by solitude, at most the money would be relayed to them by solitude. they are not employed by the city.
@Bone8380 but i see the reason some say the stationed soldiers could be employed by the city, but mainly because they are also used as city guards (as per their name) and would at least be counted as employed in the city
These unemployment videos are always a treat.
Hey mate just wanted to let you know these are very comforting videos for me. I’ll probably be rewatching them for years to come. Thanks for the amazing content, I plan/hope to become a patron once I have more money coming my way!
These videos are always great Austin! I enjoy content like this.
EDIT: I'm pretty sure fletching is putting feathers on arrows. Or just arrow making more generally.
you dont have to type “EDIT:”
@@repghost9481 you dont have to have a SOUR attitude
@@repghost9481 I know that but I wanted to
@@repghost9481 You don't have to, but its a fairly common older practice when you're adding new information instead of just making a couple tweaks.
yes, Fletching is Arrow making and can even be Bow making
20:38 "I'm not exactly sure what she's doing but it's definitely got the energy of a job" if that ain't me
I think it'd be pretty fun to survey one of the cities in Morrowind. You can ask pretty much anyone what their background and occupation are, and they'll give you an answer.
18:47 I love the wayward glance down Deeja’s cleavage… shame on you, sir XD
he's just a lizard boy with a lizard brain full of lizard instincts, he's doing his best 😔
24:22 Wait hold up...
I thought the dragon killed him 😳
18:18 Absolutely sobbing over this moment, the comedic timing. Incredible. Great response.
Thanks for your research about the unemployment rate in the land of Skyrim. Please continue the series and when you're done, inform us about the amount of unemployment in cyrodiil during the oblivioncrisis. Please.
2:36 After you call him unemployed, Dervenin gives a little “c’mon man” shrug as he walks away. He knows he’s employed!
14:56 Had me burst out laughing. However in your brief interaction back in the blue blue manor with Varnius he mentioned he was going back to Dragon Bridge, which is a town outside of Solitude, so he would've been N/A for this video.
3:00 I would argue that anyone in the priesthood might technically be employed as medical professionals in this setting. You know, healing magic and all.
All I know is that everyone was employed when we had the old Jarl.
Yessss more of the skyrim unemployment series!!
for some reason these are just the best to me, and you bring the perfect cadence of like a beleaguered but dedicated public sector employee
dervenin's employment is under question as he serves a daedric lord, though it's unlikely he's being paid for this service. he also will ask for money like other beggar NPCs.
I would call him an out of towner at the very least because in his quest, he asks his master, "Are we going home?" After which they vanish from the game world.
There's no way dervenin pays taxes
lmao@@VolatileFortune
I am loving the editing done on the text! Gets a big chuckle out of me every time
I like the fact he judges the mercenary as employed based on how much of a unit the guy looks
this’ll have windhelm quaking in their boots
Had a pretty awful day at work. Seeing this video out was just what I needed dude!
These videos are some of my favorites on TH-cam right now. It scratches this specific itch I didn't even know I had lmao
Same here! I’m binging them tonight lol
Even though Jaree-Ra might state he is a treasure hunter he is a bandit actually. His quest involves extinguishing a fire on a lighttower that causes a ship to crash next to the player home of Morthal.
Gulum-Ei is part of the thieves guild.
Gulum-Ei isn't actually part of the Thieves' Guild. He's a crooked employee of the East Empire Company who does business with the Guild from time to time.
It would be a very, very ambitious project, but it would be nice to see you bring this sort of idea to the Imperial City in Oblivion, or even to one of the other capitals in Cyrodiil, like Anvil or Skiingrad. This is a very entertaining series and it would be great to see it expanded beyond the reaches of just the province of Skyrim (even if you have to go back a few centuries to the time period of Oblivion ;P)
Their are no children in Oblivion so I feel it would feel a lot more off though.
I'd be interested to learn if Bravil truly is the most economically dead city in Cyrodiil, or if it's somehow beaten out in unemployment by like... Leyawiin. Because Southeast Cyrodiil is a terrible place to live.
At that point you could also just go ahead and do a full economic analysis of the empire, including trade flows between regions, economic activity and niches in different areas, the importance of impirial beurocracy (of course very high!) and maybe even make some macro-economic suggestions for the empire!
I feel like Bruma would have the lowest employment, outside of the castle, and the inn, the rest are houses, and then you have the fighters and mages guild having the lowest numbers attending them, most are just unemployed residents.
Thank you for completing the employment audit of solitude! Keep up the great work!
3:50 This made me want to know what fletching was so I tried googling it but I accidentally typed in "fleching" which apparently means "licking or sucking semen out of a partner's anus" so I was really confused as to what that character's job was within the city of Solitude.
Fletching is making arrows
Fleching while I'm fletching.
That’s felching not fleching
This made me laugh so hard I started aspirating
Fihada's skill as a flecher drew me to this place.
Why do I love these so much. I find them therapeutic. I enjoy the detective work.
“Babe wake up, the new Employment Situation Summary Report just dropped!”
I have no idea why these videos of yours are so entertaining and comforting
this is my new favorite comfort channel thank you austin :)
I have to say, I absolutely love this series, and the angle - in fact, I love the angle of other series' on here as well like the 'strange places' - very liminal. Brilliant stuff.
Just watched the other videos for the first time. Perfect timing on the upload. keep up the great content.
these unemployment videos literally make my day when they post. would love to see you make more! they are always fun regardless of what game/town you do
I have a feeling this video is going to blow up! So funny and really entertaining. Who knew videos about Skyrim would still be coming out in 2023
3:58 he’s employed. A fletcher is a person who makes arrows. They were well paid because a king could order millions of arrows, instantly making all the fletchers in a region rich
I did not know I’d be invested in a series like this, keep it up I enjoy it
These unemployed videos you do has got to be some of the absolute best content on all of TH-cam. Keep ‘em coming.
Not sure if anybody made the comment yet, but fletching is the process of making arrows and bolts for bows and crossbows etc.
1:12 - Hang on, but does he mean his working days are done _for the rest of his life_ or, like, for the month? Maybe he's, I dunno, a farmer, he's just finally finished harvesting his crops for the year, and he's got another 3 months before he needs to start tilling and planting and whatever it is farmers do?
3:52 - Fletching is making arrows. So this guy could be here to apprentice as an arrow-maker... or could just be here to buy some good-ass arrows.
DUDE the old madman in the most employed person of them all, he works for the mad god itself, sheogorath. (servant)
I love the saga of following, protecting, and unfortunately losing the guy who ultimately lives in dragon bridge for the solitude employment survey census 😂
This is the best installment of this series yet. So much plot development and so many satisfying payoffs to early series setups. Truly shows the scope of the author's vision. 10/10 highly recommend.
You missed those in the East Empire Company Warehouse. I counted 6 employed people (guards and dockworkers) and 1 unemployed person (some homeless dude), bringing the unemployment rate up to 3.9% from 2.9%. There were more people (hired bandits) in Brinewater Grotto, which is a dungeon inside the EECW, but I killed them while completing the Scoundrel's Folly questline, so they weren’t there anymore. Videos suggest that 10 bandits spawn in there, so that’s another 10 employed people and 0 unemployed, bringing the unemployment rate down a bit to 3.5%.
Speaking of Paper Mario…. Rouge Port would be a a fantastic episode for this series. Although it changes a bit throughout the game so I feel like it’d be most accurate to take the report at the end.
2:20. This is why I always wear my work clothes to bed; so that anyone who sneaks into my house at night can easily identify me as being employed.
I wish to see this video series continue for all of time
Can't get enough of these videos man, this is top quality entertainment
I love this series! Perfect start to my day!
I can't believe I'm only just getting recommended this channel. Instant subscribe, great content 👍
i love these because they are so non-stressful to watch
There's such a pleasant, relaxing vibe to them.
I love all the episodes of this series I’ve seen so far, and it’s so fun how committed to the character of a gov official you are in them. I wanna see a small town one next. Winterhold or Morthal, maybe?
(I’d also love to see another episode of Skyrim restaurant inspection, that one was such a blast)
Not only are these videos hilarious, I actually learned something in this one! ❤
Not sure if anyone mentioned, but fletching (maybe fletchery?) is the production of archery supplies, more specifically arrows (from 'fletching', the stabilizer fins on the back of an arrow) but has come to encompass bows, crossbows, and bolts
You should do a city in TES2 Daggerfall for shits and giggles.
Given a lot of them are just procedurally generated NPCs, I'm sure their unemployement rate is abysmally high, but it would be really funny to watch you try and meticulously go through everyone's homes and question as much NPCs as you reasonably can.
6:14 its oil. Blacksmiths sometimes prefer to quench their metal in oil because water tends to heat faster than oil.
Your videos are so unique i love them!❤
"Congratulations, you are employed"
"OOOUIUURGGGHHH"
That's such a mood.
I hope you do the Imperial City some day. That'd probably have to be an hour-long special or multi-part video or something.
Thank you for continuing this series. I love it so much.
I`m german, englisch is not even my first language and i know what fletching is simply because of minecraft. I feel so intelligent right now haha
I’m so glad you’re continuing this series!!
I would be interested to know how real-life enumerations are conducted in port cities, places where you would expect a lot of people who are employed by organisations in other countries and are passing through the port. There was no realistic way to assess this in Solitude, and so I understand why a generalisation might have been made, but I find it extremely unlikely that everyone employed at the East Empire Company docks was a resident of Solitude - and therefore counted towards Solitude's unemployment rate - especially considering the relatively nearby Company offices located on Vvardenfell (might have been lost after the eruption) and on Solstheim (confirmed to exist in 4E201).
The one on Solstheim was abandonned when the mine "run out" of Ebony.
this is purely a guess but i’d assume that as long as they’re hired legally they probably have a work visa or other documentation showing that they’re not employed in the country they’re passing through.
so like if they’re working off the ship (since the ship is technically the “soil” of whatever country it’s register in) it’s because they’ve got proof they can work and be paid through the country they’re currently in and someone trying to do those stats would be made aware