As I've told in another thread (Putting Dex back in 2nd ed), I put all the careers, official ones and fan careers, in one document - and added Dexterity and Perception as attributes. That brought a problem with it.
You probably know that the career entries and exits in the Career Compendium (which hosts all the official careers) did not always match. In my document I added quite a number of fan careers (including first edition careers that were not officially ported to second edition) as well, which made an even bigger mess of it all. Some fan careers double official careers that appeared in later books, some fan careers would be a nice entry or exit of an official career that appeared later than the core book, and so on.
So I created a big spreadsheet of careers, with all career exits listed. The idea was to use these to complete the career entries in the document, so that there is no discrepancy between them.
In making that spreadsheet, though, I saw that some careers would get a lot of entries - up to 39 for Demagogue. It seems like everyone can become one of those, or a Charlatan (37 entries) or a Scholar (33 entries). In total there are 16 careers, out of 255, which have more than 20 entries, and 9 of those have even over 30.
For some careers it makes sense to have a lot of entries. A Veteran, for instance, should be available for any military career that doesn't lead to a higher rank, and WFRP has - probably thanks to the battle game - quite a lot of military starting careers. But that is not the case for all those careers.
What do you feel should be a reasonable number of entries or exits for a career? I tend to think that, unless there is something specific about them (like the Veteran) I should aim for fifteen entries at most, perhaps ten.
That operation would lead to a new rebalancing as well, because when I start scrapping entry careers, I must make sure that on the other side enough career exits remain. I mean, if I scrap the Assassin entry for Sergeant, then Assassin has one career exit less. If I take too many 'Assassin' career entries out of other careers, there will be nothing left for the Assassin to go to after that career is complete.
