Final Fantasy VIII
Squall
Ultemicia was defeated and now Squall & Co. had no job. Why? Well, SeeD had no purpose now that there were no more evil sorceresses. So now Squall had to pay taxes on this stupid flying school with no purpose. Since he was running low on money, he sold the Garden to the Master Fisherman in FH, the guy who was almost hit by the Garden when it first came to FH. Now, the Master Fisherman rides around the ocean in it, yelling "Whoo-hoo!" and catching the wakes of boats and Sea-doos. Shortly after Squall sold the Garden, Rinoa left him. The rumor was that she had big plans to turn the Garden into a Forest Owls Training Facility and Dog Spa. Squall wasn't too sad, though. In fact, he was kinda happy because now he was a single unemployed bachelor. He moved to Deling City and partied every night until he began to run out of money again and he decided he needed a job. After much high-tech research, consisting mainly of scanning the Want ads, he decided that being a mailman would be pretty easy. He searched all over the world for open mailman positions and finally found one in Esthar. He wasn't too pleased about moving to Esthar because that's where Laguna lives, but as it was the only position open, Squall took it.
Squall soon discovered that he had a natural talent for the postal service. He quickly rose to the rank of mail deliverer in the Esthar Mail Force. He was very popular with the whole Force because he devised a new way to deliver mail: by shooting it through the elevator tubes. This idea worked really well and he was promoted to head of the Esthar mail service. Despite his high position, he still worked as a deliverer on weekends. For one of his vacations, he went to Traverse Town to kick some Heartless but, but he eventually left; he missed his true calling: the postal service. When he got back to Esthar, he had a new job offer.
Rinoa
Rinoa dumped Squall after he sold the Garden. Everyone hated her because the thought she wanted to make a ton of money off the Garden and when she couldn't, she dumped Squall. But that's not the reason at all! She left because...well, that's not really any of your business, is it? Anyway, Rinoa married her favorite man in the world besides her traitorous daddy: Angelo. She didn't care if Angelo was a dog. She was sick and tired of people always judging her. Geez, you people! Leave her alone! Anyway. Rinoa lives happily in Timber and every Halloween, she dresses up as an owl to represent the Forest Owls, her resistance group without a purpose now that Vinzer Deling is dead.
Zell
After the group broke up, Zell decided to move back in with his mom in Balamb. He sat around in the house, running up his mother's food bills. But, his favorite pastime was going out into the town to annoy the townspeople. The good citizens of Balamb are constantly coming up with plots to try to run Zell out of town, but nothing is working. They pull childish pranks on him, but unfortunately Zell likes all the pranks they play on him. They tried putting Kool-Aid in his shower head, but Zell just drank the Kool-Aid. They unscrewed his salt shaker lids, but Zell really, really likes salt on just about everything. As a last ditch attempt, they put Whoopee cushions on all his chairs, but Zell thought these were hilariously funny and decided to stay for another twenty years. Like most people in the world, the people of Balamb are undaunted, however, and they are still hard at work to get Zell out of Balamb through Operation Get Zell out of Balamb As Soon As Possible Using Whatever Means Necessary, or OGZooBASAPUWMN.
Quistis and Ward
Quistis decided that she wanted to pursue a career in music, so she quit being a SeeD and moved to Deling City. She bought a bar and built a stage in it. Then, she talked Ward into working there as well. He became the bartender/lounge singer and Quistis was the piano player. Despite the fact that he can't talk, Ward's act became an instant hit and he released several platinum CD's with Quistis as the accompaniment. Quistis dyed her hair black and slicked it back. She performs in a red dress that looks exactly like Julia's dress. In fact, in her whole get-up, she looks like a Julia clone. She figures that the tried-and-true methods are the best way to go. Quistis also hopes to become a professional singer, but she would still keep the bar if she went public. Ward is still the bartender, even though he has so much money, he could buy his own continent. In some cases, fame doesn't go to the head. On his off days, Ward plays basketball with Yao Ming. He is super-tall (7 feet, to be exact) so he's pretty good, but Yao Ming still wins most of the time.
Irvine and Selphie
Irivine and Selphie got married. They wandered around in the world for a few years, looking for somewhere to live and finally decided on living in Trabia. Actually, Sephie decided on Trabia and Irvine just went along with it to make her happy. Once in Trabia, they tried to rebuild the Garden, but since it was so decrepit to begin with, they couldn't really save it. Selphie realized what a dump she had been living in since her childhood and they decided to change it into a mini golf course. They built a course, complete with little windmills and castles, added batting cages, go carts, an arcade, and a paintball field. It was instantly popular. People from all over the world flocked to Trabia Golf to spend weeks doing absolutely nothing productive. Sadly, Trabia was only technically open from May to August, it being located above the Arctic Circle and all. But, for some weird people, the fun never stops. People began coming to Trabia in the winter and breaking in to play mini golf in the snow. So, Selphie and Irvine decided to increase profits and leave Trabia Golf open all year round for the nuts who want to play golf in four feet of snow. Irvine was in charge of the whole operation and he tried to make Selphie get a real job, but try as she might, she couldn't. Whenever she got a job, she was fired soon after because she was too happy and giggled all the time. Even though she was worthless, Irvine loved her and kept her to pull balls out of the fake ponds on the golf course.
Seifer
When all the sorceresses were killed in this time, except for Rinoa, Seifer was out of a job. He went to Rinoa and offered to be her bodyguard, but Squall beat him up and Seifer was forced to find other employment. He traveled all over the world with Fujin and Raijin, but no one would hire him, for reasons still unknown. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that he tried to help at least two sorceresses take over the world using hostile tactics. That's not really a good thing to have on your job résumé. Eventually, Seifer, Fujin, and Raijin moved to FH. FH is known as a town for people that no one else wants, so Seifer fit right in. But there were no jobs in FH, either. Because of the lack of employment, Seifer now spends his days fishing, never actually catching anything. Because no one likes him, he's turned into a kind of Captain Ahab character, trying to catch the elusive white whale, Moby Dick. He spends his time standing on the dock, yelling at the fish. Fujin and Raijin are kind of scared of him. Call them Ishmael.
Laguna
Laguna was president of Esthar for a long time. He liked it, but was getting sick of people in funky costumes asking him what to do all the time. He also didn't like the space program, which consisted of shooting people into space in a machine that was vaguely reminiscent of a gun. To be shot into space, literally, is kind of disturbing. Laguna was ready to resign, but unfortunately, due to some obscure Esthar law, Laguna could only resign if he found someone else to take his place. Otherwise, he was president for life. Well, being the extrovert that he is, Laguna was not intimidated. He started going to every single living thing in the city of Esthar (except Doctor Odine) and asking if they wanted to become president for him. They all laughed in his face. Laguna didn't ask Doctor Odine because he knew that if Odine became president, he would kidnap thousands of innocent children and run tests on them.
So when all the clown-like residents of Esthar refused to help Laguna despite his years of loyal service, he went to other countries and asking the people of those countries. He was so desperate, he was asking monsters at one point. Just when he was about to give up, he realized that he had missed one person: Squall. Laguna did a bit of research and found out that Squall was living in Esthar and working as a mailman. Laguna found out where Squall was living and he moved in and refused to leave until Squall took over the presidency. Finally, Squall, who wanted to improve Esthar from the wreck of a town that his father had made it, said yes. Now the people of Esthar are much happier, because the Esthar Postal Force is the envy of the entire world. Laguna moved to Winhill with Ellone. He's a cantankerous old man who complains about everything and makes Ellone fetch him soup at every hour of the day. Interesting how he refuses to spend time with his real son, but lives with this girl he knew for about a year a long time ago.
Kiros
Kiros didn't have a job after Adel was killed, seeing as he was the manager of the Sorceress Containment Department. So he had to wait in the unemployment line in Luca with Rikku (the girl one; oh, wait! They're both girl ones!). He thought about what he liked to do and one day it came to him in a dream. He decided he wanted to play baseball. He didn't know why, seeing as how he had never even heard of baseball, let alone played it. But he didn't care and was always up for a challenge. He turned out to be a pretty good baseball player, despite the fact that he was upwards of 40 years old and had no baseball experience whatsoever. But no teams would hire him with a name like Kiros. I mean, seriously, would you? So with Ward's permission, he changed his name to Ward. Yes, just Ward. He was inspired by Cher and Madonna. After he changed his name, he was signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He played with them for many years, until eventually he disappeared. He stopped played baseball and became a recluse. He still likes baseball, but he just doesn't play it anymore. Go figure.
Cid and Edea
When he gave control of the Garden to Squall, Cid never planned to take it back. He missed his wife, Edea, something terrible, so when she was released from Ultimecia's evil grip, they moved to into Edea's old run-down orphanage/lighthouse at the very bottom of the Centra continent. Which makes us wonder: why is there a lighthouse down where absolutely no one lives? Did Edea get bored one day and decided to build a lighthouse? Who on earth would use it besides fish and stupid people who sail far away from all civilization just for fun? Odin? Tonberries? Anyway. Cid retired permanently shortly after leaving the Garden. He got bored very quickly and began annoying the heck out of Edea. She got so irritated with him that she suggested that the two of them take a "romantic" vacation to the Centra ruins. Once there, Edea, who by now was ready to strangle herself, left Cid there. Cid lived with the Tonberries for a while and then moved to Lindblum and remarried.
Ultimecia and Adel
After being defeated by Squall & Company, Inc, in the future, Ultimecia's plan for world domination was doomed to be an unrealized reality. So sad. She traveled back in time to the present. She tried going on the lecture circuit with a lecture called "Pros and Cons of Being an Evil Sorceress", but that failed miserably. Crushed, she moved to the abandoned Deep Sea Research Center and started a nunnery for sorceresses, which she dubbed Shed of Really Crazy Eccentric Retired Electric Sad Sorceresses With Indigo And Green Walruses At the Mall, or just S.O.R.C.E.R.E.S.S.W.I.G.W.A.M. It was really just coincidence that the name for the nunnery created that acronym. Ultimecia has more talents than she gives herself credit for. No one, not even Ultimecia herself understands why she named it this. I guess that's where the Crazy part comes in. Anyway, Ultimecia got pretty lonely all by herself, so she invited Adel and Edea to come live with her in the Sorceress Wigwam. They accepted and they all lived there happily for the rest of their lives, discussing the latest sorceress fashion trends and starting their own clothing line specifically for sorceresses. Most are in the style of Adel's repulsive outfit. They invited Rinoa too, but she declined. She actually had a life.