Mario is no longer a plumber

Quartz - Mario—the beloved Nintendo mascot and video game icon—has left the plumbing profession.

A newly-uploaded profile by Nintendo of everyone’s favorite Player One describes Mario as having worked as a plumber in the distant past, suggesting he’s a plumber no longer. The profile, first reported and translated from Japanese by Kotaku, focuses instead on Mario’s present-day activities, which include playing sports, racing, and generally being a hip dude:

All around sporty, whether it’s tennis or baseball, soccer or car racing, he [Mario] does everything cool. As a matter of fact, he also seems to have worked as a plumber a long time ago…

A spokesman for Nintendo referred us to the same profile of Mario on the company’s website and did not elaborate on his apparent career change.