Innkeeper
Making any changes might make things worse than they are and you're already got enough problems as it is. The only thing you can reliably control is yourself so you decide to cut a few corners in your studies. It's not like you won't completely know the information, it's just between studying and managing the inn to make money for school, the money aspect is more important to your future in medicine
This twisted logic doesn't work so well.
First of all your inn isn't really doing any better with you around more often. You're still breaking even and your staff is still unhappy for the most part. Second of all, you spend nearly as much time scamming and scheming for your tests that you probably could've better spent it studying. Lastly, you're going into the medicine, it's not like law where you can just bullshit your way through and by it's very nature you can't really "cheat" at least not for very long. Some tests just can't be cheated on and this becomes apparent during your advanced anatomy and physiology final where you're presented with a real dead body and you get several parts of it laughably wrong.
YOU FAIL BASIC HUMAN BIOLOGY FOREVER is what is actually posted on your paper by your professor. You don't do too much better in the rest of your classes. What this all means is you have to repeat most of your classes which means more money, or at least that's what it would mean if you were rich. Since you aren't, the university just throws you out since you failed to meet the academic standard.
Well all your short cuts, the home brewed hooch, the overworked staff, the cheating, it has all amounted to nothing. Sure you still have the inn, and if you made some cuts you could keep it running, but why bother? You never wanted to run this damn thing in the first place. This is all your parents fault, they pushed you in one direction and then they fuck up and you have to go into another direction. A direction which ended up leading to ruin. At this point you're so fed up with busting your ass to get shit done, you decide to not do anything at all. Basically, you don't learn your lesson from all this.
First thing you do is sell the inn for as much as you can. Not as much as you like, but it's enough to keep you from having to do anything for a while. You spend the next few months mainly picking up loose co-eds at the university. It's a lot of fun, but as the money starts running out, you realize you're going to have to get a job again.
You wind up getting a job as a lowly clerk doing boring file keeping, but you pretty much slack off on that job quite a bit. You mostly get away with it for a long time, but eventually much like your cheating you don't get away with it forever and you're fired.
After a couple more failed attempts at keeping a job in the city, you've got no choice, but to either become a beggar or apologize to your mom in Teckleville and hope she takes you in for a while.
You take the remaining amount of your money and take a one-way trip to Teckleville and mentally prepare yourself for a lot of apologizing, even if you don't really mean it. When you arrive you meet up with your mother (who now has her own place as opposed to living with your aunt Enora). She's surprised to see you and isn't immediately hostile. You explain your situation though omit some of the information (like cheating) and replace it with a hard luck story instead. This of course is followed by a lot of apologies and stating how she was right all along. It works and she takes you in.
Of course the problem is now you're living with your mom and while she's forgiven you, she doesn't expect you to sit around doing nothing which you've decided to continue doing. This willful sloth, leads to a cycle of several never-ending arguments, but the result is always the same. You either get a odd job around the town to get your mom off your back for awhile or she throws you out and you live with your crazy aunt Enora for awhile until you can't put up with her quirkiness anymore and you get an odd job around town anyway and beg to move back in with your mom (who always accepts mainly because she still has a lingering feeling of guilt that maybe her and your dad really are responsible for your decline).
The rest of your life is a rather miserable one and not very interesting in the scheme of things. You always remain bitter about "what you could've been" and this of course results in you thinking about that damn inn a lot and what you could've done differently.
You'll never know.
This twisted logic doesn't work so well.
First of all your inn isn't really doing any better with you around more often. You're still breaking even and your staff is still unhappy for the most part. Second of all, you spend nearly as much time scamming and scheming for your tests that you probably could've better spent it studying. Lastly, you're going into the medicine, it's not like law where you can just bullshit your way through and by it's very nature you can't really "cheat" at least not for very long. Some tests just can't be cheated on and this becomes apparent during your advanced anatomy and physiology final where you're presented with a real dead body and you get several parts of it laughably wrong.
YOU FAIL BASIC HUMAN BIOLOGY FOREVER is what is actually posted on your paper by your professor. You don't do too much better in the rest of your classes. What this all means is you have to repeat most of your classes which means more money, or at least that's what it would mean if you were rich. Since you aren't, the university just throws you out since you failed to meet the academic standard.
Well all your short cuts, the home brewed hooch, the overworked staff, the cheating, it has all amounted to nothing. Sure you still have the inn, and if you made some cuts you could keep it running, but why bother? You never wanted to run this damn thing in the first place. This is all your parents fault, they pushed you in one direction and then they fuck up and you have to go into another direction. A direction which ended up leading to ruin. At this point you're so fed up with busting your ass to get shit done, you decide to not do anything at all. Basically, you don't learn your lesson from all this.
First thing you do is sell the inn for as much as you can. Not as much as you like, but it's enough to keep you from having to do anything for a while. You spend the next few months mainly picking up loose co-eds at the university. It's a lot of fun, but as the money starts running out, you realize you're going to have to get a job again.
You wind up getting a job as a lowly clerk doing boring file keeping, but you pretty much slack off on that job quite a bit. You mostly get away with it for a long time, but eventually much like your cheating you don't get away with it forever and you're fired.
After a couple more failed attempts at keeping a job in the city, you've got no choice, but to either become a beggar or apologize to your mom in Teckleville and hope she takes you in for a while.
You take the remaining amount of your money and take a one-way trip to Teckleville and mentally prepare yourself for a lot of apologizing, even if you don't really mean it. When you arrive you meet up with your mother (who now has her own place as opposed to living with your aunt Enora). She's surprised to see you and isn't immediately hostile. You explain your situation though omit some of the information (like cheating) and replace it with a hard luck story instead. This of course is followed by a lot of apologies and stating how she was right all along. It works and she takes you in.
Of course the problem is now you're living with your mom and while she's forgiven you, she doesn't expect you to sit around doing nothing which you've decided to continue doing. This willful sloth, leads to a cycle of several never-ending arguments, but the result is always the same. You either get a odd job around the town to get your mom off your back for awhile or she throws you out and you live with your crazy aunt Enora for awhile until you can't put up with her quirkiness anymore and you get an odd job around town anyway and beg to move back in with your mom (who always accepts mainly because she still has a lingering feeling of guilt that maybe her and your dad really are responsible for your decline).
The rest of your life is a rather miserable one and not very interesting in the scheme of things. You always remain bitter about "what you could've been" and this of course results in you thinking about that damn inn a lot and what you could've done differently.
You'll never know.
