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[A Christmas Carol] What was Fred's occupation?

What did Fred actually do? I mean from the movies they always showed him well off. But then a few times in various iterations of the film I would hear Scrooge say he was broke and married broke. I always thought that he was a businessman like Scrooge.
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He was a middle class clerk. It wasn't that he was poor, rather he was living paycheck to paycheck. Scrooge was disappointed in him because he wasn't saving and investing his money, he was using it on things like a wife and a christmas party with his friends.