let’s pretend for a while that i have no au’s in the works and just put another one here anyway
- neil doesn’t know what he wants to do with his future
- he’d had no idea he could have a future
- so someone at the high school he managed to last at for two full years asks what his plans are and he doesn’t know
- he doesn’t even have interests and this teacher is at her wits’ end
- “why am i in this job? ah yes, if you can’t do anything else, teach”
- which gives her an idea
- she asks if neil has considered teaching
- he hasn’t
- but it sounds like it could work