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usually hire from within for that and you need to have
seniority. I wouldn’t mind starting at the bottom, but I’d
probably have to do admin work. Which I’d be okay with too.”
“I could check with my brother or my dad and see if
they have a position at the company. Writing about tires might
not be very interesting though.”
“Really?” I just about leap out of the booth, I’m so
shocked. “I wasn’t hinting at that at all.”
“I know. Believe me, I know.”
“Okay. I would never want you to think—”
“I don’t.”
“If you want to, that would be great. I wouldn’t mind
even doing reception or coffee runs or whatever. If they don’t
have anything open, that’s okay too. Thank you for even
offering. That’s really kind.”
“Have you ever thought about going back to school so
that you could teach?”
“Oh god. I don’t think I’d have any special talent for
teaching. I don’t know that I have any patience.”
“You might be surprised.”
“I think to be a teacher you have to be more than just
good at something. You have to have a passion for it, but you
have to be able to commute that passion to other people and
make them passionate too. I think about all the terrible
teachers I’ve had who were brilliant people and really
dedicated at what they did, but just couldn’t pass what they
knew along to anyone else, or didn’t want to try because they
didn’t know how. I just think I wouldn’t be very good at it.”
“You can get trained. There are classes that could show
you how. If you wanted to do it.”
