The world of Naruto is filled to the brim with venerable shinobi, ninja who make money by completing missions for their Hidden Village. These missions often require advanced combat knowledge, completing deadly tasks, and paying higher bounties for more dangerous tasks. Upon their completion, the shinobi return home to rest.
Even though the Hidden Villages are built on this shinobi-commerce foundation, they still need to function when the shinobi aren't home. Regular people keep the village's lights on, the water running, and food on the tables from genin to Hokage. There are several jobs available to anyone who can't, or don't, dream of becoming a shinobi.
10 The Food Service Industry Is Booming In Every Hidden Village
The food service industry is one of the biggest within the Hidden Villages, as most of its population is constantly hungry due to their intense training (justsu or otherwise). Each village has its specialty food and several dine-in options available to try; ramen joints, BBQ meat places, and dumpling shops are present, among many others.
After returning from long missions, most shinobi are often too tired to cook. While food is a necessity, good food is a luxury that most can afford after fulfilling their missions; luckily, the food service industry doesn't require its workers to put their lives on the line every day just to do their job.
9 Florists Are Needed For Weddings And Funerals
Flowers are commonly used for a variety of reasons within the Hidden Villages; their fragrance, medicinal potency, and use in funeral rites are essential to life in shinobi-centered settlements. Due to Konohagakure's vast forests, the Yamanaka clan are specialty florists whose shop has existed since the First Hokage's era.
The constant funerals being thrown for fallen comrades causes shops like Yamanaka Flowers to do extremely well. The short life expectancy results in more weddings as well; therefore, these large floral orders are fulfilled by even the most chakra-less people.
8 Code-Breakers Use Intelligence To Serve Their Village's Active Ninja
The job requirements for shinobi don't rely solely on chakra manipulation; the role requires gathering intelligence, thinking critically, and decoding enemy messages. Oftentimes, intelligence matters more than brute force on the battlefield.
Code-breakers are some of the smartest characters in the Naruto universe, using their superior intelligence to break enemy codes and securing sensitive information for their village. By working within large teams, they dutifully serve their Kage from the safety of the Village. Even without chakra, these workers aid their shinobi counterparts without ever needing jutsu.
7 Selling Ninja Tools Provides Constant Income In A War-Torn World
Tools are in constant demand for shinobi: kunai, shuriken, and paper bombs are essential tools in the shinobi's arsenal. A plethora of items are often incorporated into combat or as diversionary methods for the most powerful characters in Naruto.
As these tools cost money, Ninja Tool Salespeople never have trouble clearing out their stock. Those who invent new and unique items set themselves apart from the sea of salespeople. So long as they have knowledge of the tools many uses, their sellers need never have seen the battlefield themselves.
6 Carpenters Are A Necessity In Most Hidden Villages
The Hidden Village's constant wars result in multiple attacks on the villages; these result in devastating damage to the village infrastructure, resulting in the need to rebuild. Expert carpenters are often hired to help restore the structural framework following these cataclysmic attacks.
Carpenters are constantly being employed both in and outside the village. While outside carpenters are typically only hired for residential projects, each village's specialty woodworkers rebuild the village's internal structures; as the only skill required is knowledge of using a hammer and nails, carpenters perform their work without those pesky chakra restraints.
5 Those With Enough Perseverance Can Become Shinobi Without Chakra
As shinobi are faced with constant mortal danger, their jobs require reasonable requirements before a candidate can be considered: combat prowess, intelligence, and chakra ability. Raw strength is also important, as shinobi constantly go head-to-head in battle.
As brute strength can overcome inherited skills, even chakra-less people can become shinobi with enough drive and perseverance. The taijutsu combat style requires no chakra, and those willing to put in the work to master it can become shinobi and learn some of the strongest techniques in Naruto without ever performing jutsu.
4 Ninja Cooks Accompany Squads On Long Missions
Shinobi are sometimes sent on missions far from their home village. These missions in foreign territory can range from weeks to months to years; roughing it for so long in the wild leaves even the toughest ninja longing for a home-cooked meal and a warm bed.
Ninja cooks are sometimes sent to accompany these squads to supplement the meal portion. They care for the squad's needs, creating great meals from ingredients they've gathered from the wild. The best of them, like Kosuke Maruboshi, even receive hundreds of requests from shinobi, who desire these ninja chefs for their cooking skills, not their combat abilities.
3 Politicians Often Have No Fighting Experience Despite Controlling Soldiers
The Kage aren't the only prominent political figures within the Hidden Villages; leaders like venerable elders and other politicians help direct the Kage in making decisions for the good of the village.
Unlike the Kage, who are often the strongest shinobi in their village, other politicians require little to no battle experience to take office. The daimyo, or feudal lords, are regular people who lead nations and armies. The village elders also use their considerable experience to influence the Kage's decision-making, greatly affecting the course of each of their Hidden Villages.
2 A Ninja-Tool Inventor Gives Regular People Access To Chakra Abilities
As war is constantly evolving in the shinobi world, so too are the tools used to wage it. Ninja tools are a constant necessity in the ninja's arsenal as they can make the difference between its user's life or death. With the introduction of science, Scientific Ninja Tool inventors harness chakra to enable others to use it.
Without ever infusing it themselves, these scientists created the Scientific Ninja Tools to become the world's top weapon sellers. Anyone with an inventive mind and a grasp of chakra basics can invent these tools, which enable users to access jutsu and Elemental Release styles otherwise unavailable to them.
1 A Courier Ninja Only Requires Speed To Complete Their Job
Ultimately, a shinobi's main goal is to gather intelligence from enemy nations to help their leader make informed decisions. This skill is so important that the first test of the Chunin Exam focuses entirely on a candidate's ability to discretely gather information; their combat ability, tested in the exam's second phase, keeps them alive long enough to return home and deliver the information successfully.
Ninja couriers are charged exclusively with delivering this information to the receiving party. They train exclusively to build their speed and stamina, ensuring their ability to run nonstop until their message has been delivered. While chakra certainly helps ninja couriers in this line of work, it is by no means a requirement.