To effectively perform a job, will we need to qualify for them beforehand, like earning a certain amount of rep, or will it be as easy to get started as having the right kind of ship?asked by Dr_Murray

We were kinda discussing this on the previous question about moving professional between professions fluidly. So, to do a job like if I just wanted to cargo haul, if I've got a ship that can take cargo I'll be able to get basic cargo missions. If you want to get more interesting or more lucrative ones then you'll have to build your rep up whether it's going to be with a merchant's guild or someone that's a cargo broker or something like that. Much like the mission giver that we sort of showed at GamesCom last year, we'll have characters out there that will be giving you sort of higher grade missions that pay better, that are maybe a bit more interesting, a bit more challenging. So you sort of have to kind of prove your mettle and then you get a certain rep as you were saying and you can move onto the more interesting missions. If you just want to haul cargo and you've got a Freelancer, yeah you absolutely be able to start doing that and then it's up to you how far you want to go in that profession.

So, there's a lot of the smaller ships to where you could potentially fit a small number of crates, 4,6,8, 20 crates. The amount of cargo you can haul is obviously going to affect what type of thing you might be looking to transport, in other words… I mentioned earlier, illegal liquors and stuff which you know a dozen crates of that could actually have a pretty hefty profit margins. When you're talking about hauling commodities, probably not so much. You're usually talking about… unless you're talking about some of the more valuable ones, you're usually talking about greater quantities, you need a larger ships… those ships in general tend to move slower therefore you may want a security escort and on and on and on.