Well here we go. I'm saying this right now; it is not my intention to slander any choice of careers. It's just the Joes who do these jobs are rather…odd. That's all.
Psychiatrist
"This is so lame," Rogue grumbled as she lay back in her seat. "Nothing but a big waste of time!"
"For once I agree with you," Lance muttered. The Misfits were there as well with the X-Men in the auditorium like classroom.
"A career day for mutants," Althea groaned. "Now I've seen everything! How dumb is this?"
"Yeah we know what we're going to be when we grow up yo," Todd propped his feet up on the seat in front of him.
"Well some of us may want to be something other than assassins," Tabitha quipped. "Although I admit that is an interesting career option."
"I'm going to be a full fledged ninja," Todd snapped. "They aren't just assassins you know! Some of them are bounty hunters or soldiers like Snake Eyes and Jinx!"
"Some of them are even mystic sorcerers or crime fighters," Althea said. "Of course there are a few that are crime bosses as well."
"Wow I like had no idea that there was so much variety in the ninja profession," Kitty blinked. "But I don't think it's exactly for me. I mean isn't it like a boys only profession?"
"Hello! There have been female ninjas around for centuries!" Althea said exasperated.
"Really?" Tabitha asked.
"Yeah!" Althea rolled her eyes. "It's just that for some reason only males get featured most of the time in movies!"
"So it is an equal opportunity profession," Amara said. "That's good to know."
"What do you need to know about it?" Rogue snapped. "You're a princess for crying out loud! You're gonna be a queen when you grow up!"
"Hey she can be a ninja queen!" Todd spoke up. "It's happened before!"
"Really?" Amara perked up. "Cool!"
"Unbelievable," Jean groaned.
"Only mutants would seriously pick being a ninja as a career choice!" Rogue said exasperated. "Although there isn't exactly that much out there to choose from to begin with!"
"Now that is where you are wrong Rogue," Xavier appeared before the class. "This career day is to show that mutants have many options while choosing a career. Not just being a crime fighter or a terrorist."
"Or a ninja," Todd said.
"Yes that too," Xavier sighed. "But you can be anything you want to be."
"What if you wanna be a ninja?" Todd asked.
"Well there are other things you can be," Xavier tried to reason with him. "You don't have to be a ninja if you don't want to."
"What? What's wrong with being a ninja?" Todd asked.
"There is nothing wrong with being a ninja," Xavier rubbed his temples. "But maybe some other people want to be something else."
"But…" Todd began.
"Just shut up Toad and let's just get this over with," Lance said. "The sooner they start this, the sooner we can get out of here."
"Okay," Todd nodded.
"Fine," Xavier sighed. "Well we have contacted a number of people in different professions to talk to you about their choice of careers."
"Then how come only the Joes showed up?" Rogue asked.
"Well there are a lot of different careers that can be found in the army as well as real life," Xavier fidgeted.
"Nobody else wanted to show up didn't they?" Remy asked.
"That's not true," Xavier said. "Just…some of them couldn't make it here right away. So without further ado here's our first speaker to tell us all about the joys of psychiatry, Psyche-Out."
"That nutcase?" Remy asked.
Psyche-Out made his way to the podium. "Good morning ladies and gentlemen. I am here to talk to you about the psychiatric profession. It is a career, which deals with the healing of the mind. A career that can help troubled souls find the path to a better life. It is also a career that can help you get a ton of money as well as material for a lot of best selling novels!"
"Oh god…" Hank groaned in the back.
"I'm serious kids," Psyche-Out said. "I mean you barely have to do any work at all. Just copy down what people are saying! These books practically write themselves! All you have to do is come up with a few catchy slogans and change the names around and you have it made!"
"Maybe we shouldn't have started off with him," Xavier moaned.
"Ya think?" Logan glared at him.
"I mean what other profession do you hear about people's sex lives and get paid for it?" Psyche-Out continued. "It's brilliant. And if you get a really disturbed individual, you can get some great tapes out of it too!"
"Psyche-Out!" Xavier snapped. "I think the students are more interested in the practical aspects of psychiatry."
"Oh you mean the boring stuff," Psyche-Out said. "That's all well and good. But it can be a fun job! If you get really good at it you can work in the crime department. That's where they have you profile serial killers and terrorists and all those psychotic loons and stuff."
"Takes one to know one," Rogue muttered under her breath.
"So you're saying being a psychiatrist is a very lucrative profession?" Tabitha asked.
"Better than that," Fred told her. "You can make a lot of money too!"
"Yeah and you can also prescribe as many drugs as you want too," Psyche-Out said. "And as long as you're not really stupid about it nobody will catch you!"
"Cool!" Jamie said excitedly.
"Where did he graduate from?" Rogue whispered. "Psychotic State?"
"I think all of the Joes are in some kind of psychotic state," Scott moaned.
"Hey!" Tabitha waved her arm. "Is it true that you can lock up in the booby hatch anybody you want?"
"Trust me on this, they can," Wanda grumbled.
"Well it depends on how you can phrase certain questions," Psyche-Out said. "Here's one example of how to get someone you hate locked up…"
"Okay that's enough!" Xavier shouted. "NEXT!"
"But I haven't finished!" Psyche-Out said.
"Yes you have!" Hank grabbed him and dragged him off the podium.
"NO! NO! I WANNA KEEP TALKING!" Psyche-Out screamed as he was dragged away.
"And this is the guy we go to for help?" Pietro groaned.
"That explains a lot," Kurt said.
"Well that was informative," Rogue said.
"Yeah I'd say Career Day at the Institute is getting off to a flying start wouldn't you say?" Scott groaned.