"Jess, that's not funny. Wait, did you just say you couldn't see me living on the streets? The streets were my home when I was a child. Hell, they were my home right up until I was 18."
He knocked on the door,
"Really Jess, you're not helping my confidence. Let's make a deal. I'll take the sporting job and you can be a 'world class brain surgeon'." He said the last parts with finger quotes and a laugh.