Private Finished Thinking to the future

Angelo had never provided any sort of career insight before, but that much was to be expected. Angelo himself was still fairly young, and he'd only been a scout for a few months. Even so, he'd done fairly well for himself: his abilities were huge advantages in his chosen career, and even though he was young he had years of experience in a very related field.

Even so, Angelo suspected it was less his accomplishments and more his age that had caused him to be volunteered to talk to a student. Angelo was young, and in a word, relatable. He understood what it was like to be right on that cusp of maturity, having to pick a career and feeling like he was deciding his fate.

He still wasn't even sure he made the right choice, but at the very least he feels more confident.

He was dressed in casual clothes when he made his way to the private meeting room in the back of the library. He rapped his knuckles against the door before cracking it open, leaning in to find that the student he was supposed to meet was already there. Angelo offered a grin before stepping fully inside, closing the door behind him.

"Your were the student who had questions about scouting? I'm Angelo Genovese." He offered a hand, unsure of it the student was a new arrival or not. Maybe they'd heard of the other Angelo, or maybe he was the first Angelo they'd met.

Amery Johnson. AJ. Angelo had already known the Amery Johnson part, but his abilities hadn't given him the AJ.

"Nice to meet you. Angelo's fine - as so many people joke, Mr. Genovese is my father." He didn't think that was ever going to change, either. Basilio was just so... so Mr. Genovese.

"Someone over at the office said you had some questions about scouting? I can't promise I'll be able to answer all of them, since I'm fairly new, but I have a pretty good idea of how it all works, and I should be able to at least point you to an answer if I can't give you one myself."

He grabbed a seat, settling in and making himself comfortable.

The world getting turned upside down on people was... well, pretty standard. Even without knowing exactly what happened to AJ, he could understand, and he offered a smile in return.

"I get that. Similar story with me. Life as I knew it went out the window, I had to find my place here, and I wanted to help people. There's a lot of stuff about the scouts people don't... get. Like, I think the most important thing is that there's really three types of scouts: some scouts handle helping people get settled... kind of like social workers. Investigative scouts are the ones who find people out in the narrow reality. Sometimes that's following leads, sometimes it's checking in with contacts... It varies. Extraction scouts... are probably what most people think of when they think of the scouts. Breaking into organized crime rings to rescue trafficked metahumans, going in guns-a-blazing... that's extraction."

Explanation complete, Angelo turned the focus back to AJ.

"Any of those interest you?"

"Abilities are really a side point," Angelo clarified. "Extraction was something I considered due to experience, but one of my mentors sat me down early in training and told me, no holds barred, that I needed to choose the one I wanted to pursue. I can fight, but it wasn't what I would choose to do, so I went for investigation."

Simple enough, anyway.

"There's a certain amount of crossover that sort of comes with the territory. As an investigator, sometimes situations come up where waiting for an extraction team isn't really possible. Similarly, extraction sometimes needs to do some investigation when a situation requires it. Scouts get trained a bit in everything, we just all focus on our specific subjects."

A lot of complicated questions, but he didn't mind them coming at him rapidfire.

"The program is pretty flexible, really. Depending on which program you go into, and what kind of experience you have, it'll vary a lot. The typical path for social work would be doing a four year degree in sociology or psychology, and then doing a few months of scout training to be brought up to speed on the scout-specific side of things."

Which was the exact opposite of what he did, really.

"Basically, you'd treat it like you were going into social work to start."