from which story is the question is from??
General rules for changing direct speech into indirect speech. Omit all inverted commas or quotation marks. End the sentence with a full stop. If the verb inside the inverted commas/quotation marks is in the present tense, change it into the corresponding past tense.
The answer is subcordinate
The way i do it is cover up the other words and read the underlined part alone and see if it makes sense
Try a job that compare to what you like to do like I like to write so I would choose a job were I can write books etc. I would choose it because it’s something I like to do and it would give me expired to see if this jobs is something I want to do for a living.