Then he will copy it into the notes app.

"Any other questions about the tests? If not we could move on to job postings."

"I don't have other questions."

"Oh, it occurs to me--there's one test that everyone takes a couple times in their life that they can't know is happening at the time, because if they know it's happening it makes it not work. Do you have that test, in the future?"

"...I suppose we might but I did not administer it."

"We tell people they've taken it and how well they did afterwards! What good is a test result you don't have?"

"I was assuming from the description the authorities used the results for something."

"The raw list of scores without any information about who got what is available for people doing research, and some employers want test results for various things including sometimes wanting you to be above a certain cutoff score on the secret test, but the government doesn't look at people's individual scores like that unless you want a job in the government. And if you run for high office the newspeople will want to know all your scores on everything--actually you'll probably get newspeople just for being a time-traveler, once the word gets out. Do you want to talk to them or pre-emptively tell them to piss off?"

"I can talk to newspeople."

"That's nice of you, if I got newspeopled because something annoying happened to me I would absolutely tell them to piss off. Anyway I think that's it for testing stuff; here's some job postings."

There are job postings in the coast guard and the forestry service and some infrastructure and disaster relief companies and some janitorial services companies. They all have salary information and job descriptions and lists of preferred skills and reviews from previous employees.

He ignores salary information almost completely. All the numbers are meaningless. He looks at the lists of preferred skills and the job descriptions to see what he'd be capable of here.

The coast guard jobs are "driving a boat up and down the coastline helping anyone who gets into mechanical or weather-related trouble" and "hanging out in ports checking incoming boats for disease symptoms or potential invasive species or, depending on the port, weapons". The boat-driving jobs all require [being above a minimum IQ and above a minimum spatial reasoning score] or proof of previous boat-piloting experience. The inspection jobs have a day-long onsite work test.

The forestry service lists "periods of solitude up to six months" under both requirements and perks. There are jobs clearing dry brush which require physical endurance, jobs piloting minicopters around looking for wildfires which require a minicopter pilot license, jobs monitoring water quality that have a specific test for just that and also require a certain conscientiousness score, and jobs monitoring flora and fauna that range from "just a conscientiousness test" to "must be a licensed veterinarian and then pass a twenty-hour course on dealing with bears". Everything except the minicopter pilot job requires basic wilderness survival training but they also all offer it on the job.

All of Kyeo's wilderness survival training is from another planet. The boat inspection job sounds sort of like something he wouldn't have that much trouble with, though the entire process of picking a job without much input is weird. He checks out the janitorial jobs too.

The janitorial jobs have a lot less variety in both pay and skills and involve vacuuming, sweeping, mopping, disinfecting, refilling the consumables in bathrooms and hand sanitizer dispensers, etc. in various publicly accessible buildings, or doing most of the same things in people's residences.

Tazz has pulled a small plastic object out of a belt pouch and is fiddling with it.

"What is that?"

"It's just a stimgadget." They hold it out for his inspection.

"...what is it for?"

"For stimming with. See, this bit spins and this bit can be flipped back and forth and this bit statechanges up and down when you press it and so on."

"...but what does it accomplish?"

"It's pleasant. And it's more interruptible than reading; I didn't want to get into flow in case you had questions."

"- hm."

What are the disaster relief jobs like?

They require some physical skills, courage, a cool head, and being willing to travel all over the planet to wherever the latest disaster is. The descriptions are variously weighted combinations of putting out fires, building temporary dams and shelters, clearing rubble, first aid/helping out doctors, rebuilding roads and bridges and sewer systems (if one has to rebuild a sewer system one gets a hardship bonus) and things in that reference class, helping people find their missing relatives or identify the bodies of same, and overseeing the distribution of emergency funds and the delivery of supplies to areas where the regular mail has been disrupted. The more dangerous ones have hazard pay and the job dictating the distribution of funds and relief supplies requires an oath, full text downloadable at this pointer.

"Why are there bonuses for fixing sewer systems?"

"Because it's super gross but really important."