#( convinced he could sell a shit shack that has no roof or door …. just bc he’s charismatic )

[etcnnante]

i love thinking about joseph’s time back in the states after the events of BT, because a year after he comes back, the US draft is sent out to recruit as many men as possible for ww2- but joseph was able to avoid it by claiming disability. and due to the dwindling workforce, he would end up picking up a bunch of oddball jobs that needed to be filled. such as a furnace man on trains, a stevedore, a deckhand, a motorman, a puddler, a tinsmith. he very much had a zombie resume with how quickly he would come and go with all these jobs. due in part because these jobs are trades, and he certainly is not a tradesman’s. so he’d either: get fired from his job or quit because he hated it. and truthfully speaking- i don’t think he got his job as a real estate agent by himself. nepotism played a heavy part, since erina saw him struggling to maintain a workman’s job, so, she instead reached out to a friend who would offer her grandson a job to help him out. and truthfully speaking ! i think he loves his job, because it allows him to meet new people and talk for as long as as he may like. his buyers either love him or hate him because of it. but for about a decade give or take- he’d really struggle with maintaining a real workman’s job because he’s been more or less pampered for a lot of his life.