He does!

Cool! So he composes that horrible-hours work place an email giving an overview of his situation and expressing a desire to work there and here's his resumé attached.

They do not reply instantaneously.

He mentally updates Isabella on what he's been doing for the past while.

[You know you don't have to actually get people to stop emailing you in order to pause an email conversation? It's an asynchronous communication form.]

[Yes but I felt bad about just stopping, he was being all real time and stuff. He even expressed curiosity! And a sense of humor! And emotions!]

[High bar.]

[Mm, I'm kinda miffed I ended up having, like, zero positive effect on him, but that's just my ego being silly and caring about unimportant things.]

[You may've helped, you don't have an It's A Wonderful Life view on it.]

[That sailed right over my head, is it a movie?]

[Yeah, a guy wishes he'd never been born and gets to look at the world in which he'd never been born. I've only seen like half of it.]

[That's... an interesting premise, I guess. For a different kind of person than me.]

[I will not make you watch It's A Wonderful Life.]

[Oh, I just meant that, like... I mean I think there'd need to be a lot of narrative causality going on there for the hypothetical world to be strictly worse or strictly better than one with or without a specific given person in it?]

[Over the whole world, sure, for, say, Jackson, not so much.]

[Yeah, probably.]

[Anyway, in the movie it turns out that his entire town would be more of a hellhole if he weren't in it.]

[Narrative causality. I'm sure the world would be worse if I weren't in it, but probably not, like, right now, and it's for very specific reasons.]

[Hmm?]

[Wanting to make everyone immortal, I mean.]

[Ah. Well, I'm glad you exist.]

[I'm glad I exist, too! Even though I'm not in fact a secret experiment this whole thing did turn out pretty well!]

[The project report would wind up looking pretty weird. "The experiment has escaped!" "Oh no!"]

[They must've freaked out when I found that cave.]

[Totally outside experimental parameters.]