Games where you're a silly little guy just trying to do your job despite the horrors

Criteria: Protagonist must have a well-defined job that they do throughout the game and also must encounter horrors. Their job cannot be Deal With The Horrors

You can clean garbage for three dollars but also you can get eaten by a big monster. Many possibilities
Henry is doing this job to escape the horrors, but then other, different horrors happen
Jill might say the horrors are certain customers but there's lots of standard cyberpunk dystopia shit going on outside of her job and also her breakup
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Cloud works hard at his honest trade of Ecoterrorism and he will use it to afford rent. He clocks in with the amount of disdain for his job as your average retail worker
Bard says "I am going to sing" to whatever eldritch being tells him to fuck off and it always works
Hee hoo I'm just a silly guy who's gonna go to space where nothing bad out of my control happens!
You're just a person born at the young age of twenty one who decides to become a teacher at a normal school for normal kids where normal things happen
You can work at coffee, work at burger, or work at flower. Many options
Rex loves the smell of salvage! You can waste time fishing up junk at any point in this game and it's awesome
Alfyn and Tressa's stories are just "I am going to go travel and do my job" and then all of a sudden they are dealing with Lyblac and Galdera
Your job is Murder, but the horrors are your fucked up nightmares and PTSD. At least it pays the bills!
Tidus and Wakka get to enjoy their beloved sport of blitzball while enduring the carnage of Sin during their journey across Spira
You might think that the horrors in this game are the monsters, but that's just part of the job. The horrors are simply Capitalism
Job: Find and save Elizabeth. Horrors: Traveling through the multiverse, Centrism
Here you can work at coffee, or work at movie! Or sell your loot to the shady cop
Oh no, I'm late to work! Sure hope this experiment goes well........

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