My Character Needs A Job

So while I'm waiting to get notes back from friends on my supernatural thriller, I started noodling around with an idea for a comedy, mostly because I wanted to write something fun for a change.

Everything I've been writing recently has been fairly bleak. Lots of bodies hitting the ground. In my supernatural thriller, the meek female main character kills four times along the way. In the low-pay rewrite I did, by the end corpses are littering the frame. The horror script I started working on was just more of the same, so finally I've pushed it to the side.

Anyhow, the comedy is coming along well; I've been brainstorming the hell out of it, and I already have a rather fleshed-out treatment.

But I need a good job for my main character. And I figured I'd just toss the question out here, rather than falling back on something generic and familiar, like his being in advertising.

Here are the parameters:

The main character (Ben) works in an office in Chicago.

The job is slightly dull, but pays well, and has the opportunity to pay even better should Ben get a promotion. But it isn't really creatively fulfilling; there's definitely a sense that financial compensation is by far the reason why he is doing this job.

The company he works for needs high-end clients; Ben is expected to help wine-and-dine potential clients when they are in town.

It's all fairly basic, and it's not going to be a huge part of the action, but at the same time it's an important enough element to make me want to do something interesting with it.

Anyone have a job for Ben?