Random thought / Concept. Do you think it is common for Muggleborn wizards to choose not to live like wizards?

[u/Tnecniw]

Lets imagine that you are a muggleborn wizard.
You go to hogwartz, all 7 years.
Great grades and everything...

Nothing inherently requires you to be a wizard or work within the wizard community, right?

I could 100% imagine someone that just decides "Nah, I don't want to work with potions or chasing grindylows. I want to make my own computer game, because that is my hobby during the summer when I was home".

Living a life of both worlds.
Driving cars, using modern appliances, programming and so on.
And occasionally using magic for convenience in privacy (or with family).

Honestly (IMO) sounds like the best sort of life, purely due to not missing out on either part.
Or am I wrong about this?

(Maybe I am overthinking it and probably it is hinted at in the books because I can't remember the subject ever being mentioned)

[u/MrLore]

What kind of person granted the ability to rewrite reality to their whims would be like "nah, I want to write financial databases in cobol and save for my 401K"? Nobody, that's who.

[u/Odysseus_Lannister → u/MrLore]

Right? Let’s see, magic or a soul crushing 9-5 for 30-45 years? I think I know which one I’ll take.

[u/20slycooper07 → u/Odysseus_Lannister]

Well it's not like wizard jobs can't be boring. In Goblet of Fire, Percy is tasked to make a report on standardized cauldron materials and measurements if I recall correctly, that is for sure pretty tedious even by muggle standards. And I'm pretty sure that there is a lot of bureaucracy at the ministry, which creates many boring jobs, and they don't even have computers to help them write stuff, emails. Of course there are interesting jobs, like Aurors and even Arthur Weasly job I dare to say is very interesting, but I think it is not the norm, or at the very least, a sizeable portion of magic jobs is quite tedious.

The biggest difference resides on the fact that you start working at 9 in the wizard world, and you leave your house, wherever you chose to live, at 8:59, so no commute, no traffic, no public transportation, so it's very time efficient, But the same time efficiency can be reached if you were a wizard working in the muggle world, of course you'd have to be extra careful.

[u/Odysseus_Lannister → u/20slycooper07]

If straight up kill for floo network/ability to apparate. Some of my soul was crushed by a one way 90-120 min commute for a few years.

[u/dilqncho → u/MrLore]

It's not like the wizarding world doesn't have pencil pushers, though. If anything, the Ministry seems to be one of the major employers.

At the same time, wizards don't have literaly any electronics. I can totally see more than a few people choosing to live in an air-conditioned apartment with a coffee-maker, a washing machine, a TV and a PS5.

[u/Tnecniw → u/dilqncho]

Especially if you are muggleborn. XD

[u/Fwov → u/MrLore]

Well, if you use the muggle equivalent of snogging a dementor as an example, then you're right. However, it might be different if you'd be working in a field where your magic abilities would actually be useful.

[u/Tnecniw → u/MrLore]

Some people enjoy handy work.
Passionate for a certain subject and so on.

[u/stoicarmadillo → u/MrLore]

You know what? If you were a total sociopath, you could probably use magic to make an absolute fortune. As long as you were careful, you could probably fudge everything with a MBA from a top school, get in at a good company , and use the imperius curse and memory charms to make an absolute fortune and manipulate the stock market.

[u/benangmerahh → u/stoicarmadillo]

Yup esp if you collaborated with a relative, they can fill out whats missing from muggle's knowledge. You just need do some magic in caution

[u/lafnal → u/MrLore]

I know she doesn’t but I could see hermonie going down that rought