Nothing Wrong with Being Self-Employed

"There I was! Face to face with a thousand pirates with nothin' but an empty rifle, my knife and my matches!" Shipwreck spoke.

"And then you transformed into the Purple Power Ranger," Althea quipped. "Last time you told this story it was only 200 hundred pirates and you had a bazooka!"

"That was a different time," Shipwreck sniffed.

"So let me get this straight," Kitty looked at him. "Twice you fought pirates in the Sahara Desert? Give me a break!"

"They were sand pirates!" Shipwreck said.

"There are no such thing!" Jean said exasperated.

"Hey I'm trying to set a mood here on how great it is to be a sailor!" Shipwreck told her. "Did I ever tell you about the time I got lost in Saigon and wandered down this back alley…oh wait. Most of you are too young for this story."

"Okay that's it!" Xavier called out. "Career Day is now over! You can all go now and have the rest of the day to recover!"

"Thank god!" Jean groaned. One by one as the X-Men left the auditorium they overheard their comments.

"I am happy to be an X-Man," Scott repeated to himself. "Thank god I am happy to be an X-Man!"

"Maybe I should consider becoming a priest?" Kurt sighed. "Who am I kidding?"

"If those guys are considered to be normal then I'm the freaking tooth fairy!" Amara stormed out.

"I hate my life," Rogue grumbled. "I hate my life."

"Maybe I should be a mercenary," Tabitha grumbled. "I can be my own boss, work my own hours…not live with lunatics…."

"No hope," Ray moaned. "No hope. No hope…"

"I'm gonna be a ninja!" Jamie said happily.

"Goody for you," Roberto snapped.

"It's official!" Kitty rolled her eyes. "I'm gonna be stuck here the rest of my life and I'll never get into college and go to parties and get a decent job that will actually pay me and…"

"I wonder what kind of weapons the military will want me to make?" Forge asked himself.

"They're a little down aren't they?" Logan said sarcastically.

"I don't think this helped much," Shipwreck sighed. "In fact I think the kids feel even more dismal about their futures than they did before this all started."

"You think?" Xavier snapped.

"Well look at the bright side," Hank said. "We went an entire day without the kids fighting each other."

Xavier looked at all the damage surrounding them. "For some reason, that's little comfort to me right now. Does anyone have any more aspirin?"