Guidance Counselor's Office, Wednesday

[solarhippie]

Was the guidance counselor doing her own homework in the office today? Yes, yes she was. She was taking a class on navigating the currrent job market this term, and this week's task was to create a LinkedIn profile and an online resumé.

The latter was the cause for the occasional, soft 'goddammit's coming from Karolina's office.

She was not very technically minded, and anyway, that site that was supposed to help her was totally working against her, and had probably been designed by a villain. And that was her frustration before even getting to the issues with what she had to fill the resumé with, which was... not a whole lot. 'Freelance superhero, 2012 - present' just didn't sound that professional.

Someone please rescue her.

[ooc: Open office!]

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[solarhippie]

"... Fair." It did make sense. "Still, sorry."

[imafuturist]

"When I was your age, I'd probably take offense. But then... I was an idiot around then. So you can safely say you have a better head on your shoulders than a billionaire of the same age."

Did that help?

[solarhippie]

Maaaybe?

"Thanks, I guess," she said. Mostly because she was wary of accepting compliments that involved people putting themselves down - even past versions. "But you turned out okay, too."

See, yeah, there came the need to reassure.

[imafuturist]

He was just full of casual self loathing. No big deal.

"I did," he granted her. "Took some time to get myself together. But I think that's also what your twenties are for."

He gestured toward the computer to illustrate his point to her.

[solarhippie]

Karolina shrugged, sheepishness turning a little more wry. It was progress.

"These are... maybe kinda the moments where I wonder if I really have something to offer for this job," she said. "Or if I'm still way too deep in the process of figuring myself out to help anyone else."

[imafuturist]

"I think that anyone who claims to have it all together is either lying to you or to themselves," Tony said with a conspiratorial little grin. "Is this what you want to do?"

[solarhippie]

"I think so," she said, nodding slowly. "Right now it is, at least. I just want... to help."

Karolina Dean in a nutshell.

"So that maybe at least one or two kids might have it easier than I did. Especially if they're... different." Because guess what, Tony, you weren't the only one with self-loathing issues! Though Karolina's were mostly behind her.

[imafuturist]

Hey, he understood that! It was literally why he was a futurist.

"And you'll understand them in a way other people won't," he replied. "A poorly formatted resume website isn't going to beat you."

[solarhippie]

Karolina snorted, softly.

"It might give me a bad grade, though."

[imafuturist]

"Then we engage in a little light hacking." No big.

[solarhippie]

"... How light?"

[imafuturist]

"It's me," he said with a little dismissive wave. "I'll probably make it run better."

[solarhippie]

Karolina's head tilted. "Kiiinda sounds like cheating?"

Sort of?

Look, she would be concerned about something like that.

[imafuturist]

"Cheating would be making people pick your resume. We're just going to make sure it looks nice even with the system being difficult." Of course that'd be his opinion on it.

[solarhippie]

Luckily Karolina had also always been pretty easily swayed with halfway decent reasoning.

"Well, I guess that's not so bad," she said. "I mean, I don't know if I should cry over this assignment as much as I want to."

[imafuturist]

"If it helps, I think I cried over a few assignments in college too," Tony said, eyes going a little blank as he accessed the computer with his brain to tweak a few things for her.

It was a bit like IT remote accessing a computer!

[solarhippie]

She'd been teammates with Victor Mancha, so it was a little less weird for her than it might have been otherwise.

It was still a little weird, though.

"... Oh wow."