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Dhae Knight ([personal profile] dhae_knight_1) wrote2007-11-20 10:00 pm
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Four careers Clone!Jack considered, and the one he chose:

Gotta spare you a lengthy post and just...

Four careers Clone!Jack considered, and the one he chose:


#1: At first, he gave serious thought to join the Air Force again, ASAP. But... well, he knew that that was just about him missing his home and his family – and those were gone forever, for him. And, that night he got drunk on a stolen bottle of scotch, he admitted to himself that it was also about him feeling insecure and out of his depth (which, when he sobered, amused him no end), and that re-joining the Air Force wouldn't really help with that.

So he chose to resign himself to the fact, that although he'd loved to fly, and would, literally kill to go through the 'gate again, he wasn't going to join the military.


#2: With the military out of the picture, he started looking around, wondering what else there was on the table. He looked into astronomy, because he'd always loved the night sky – less so since actually going 'out there', but it was still something of a passion for him.

He abandoned that thought when he realized that 1: he was still looking for something that would get him recruited to the Stargate Program sooner rather than later and 2: astronomy was really boring, when done properly.


#3: On career-day, he had no clue, and had picked up a brochure for the police force without any real intent, but before he had time to react, he'd been recruited. Sure, the guns and the excitement drew him, but seriously... all that paperwork and reports and forms filled in triplets and quadruplets. Yeah. He'd rather shoot himself.


#4: Crunch-time was getting closer, and after a brief, desperate flirt with his old masters' in psychology (quickly abandoned when he realized that this would require him to actually talk to nut-jobs on a permanent basis), he tried his hand at archeology. Sure, he was no Daniel Jackson, but hanging around Daniel all those years had actually rubbed off a little, and it didn't look quite as mind-numbingly boring as he'd thought at first.

Then again, while you got nicely dirty digging, all the recording and the painstaking excavations of old garbage (which it was, literally) wasn't anywhere near as much fun as Jack really wanted in his life.


#5: The thing he ended up doing, for years, wasn't something he actually considered. He almost fell into it.

The local youth-organization had a sports-program, and when they needed an assistant-coach for hockey, they – naturally – talked to their best player. Who just happened to be Jack. And when the coach quit, just before Jack graduated from high school... well, it was only natural, wasn't it?

So Jack became, for the second time in his life, something of a jock. Only this time, he decided, he wanted to do what was right by those kids. So he decided to become a teacher.

It turned out that he was quite good at it, and the kids loved their teacher. And when the SGC called him, 10 years after he'd left and offered him a chance to be an intergalactic teacher, being one of a select team to get the Jaffa Nation and a whole host of lesser and greater nations started on their own school-programs... well, he wasn't going to say no, was he?

paian: blank white (clone!Jack)

[personal profile] paian 2007-12-27 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, this is really cool! The rhythm in each one is great, that progression from excitement/attraction to practical reality, and it builds up so nicely into the last one. Which I love. Great choice for him!!
sid: (Jack tough decisions)

[personal profile] sid 2007-12-30 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Teacher among the stars! It's great! :-D

Gee, Jack bores easily, doesn't he? LOL