# What job do you think you'd be great at despite no supporting evidence? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 14, 2020, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336 "2020-07-14T20:43:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![amaguri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@amaguri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amaguri)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/1 "2020-07-14T20:43:37Z")
I watch so many movies where I’m thinking “Oh, no, this person is ALL WRONG for that role!” so despite having absolutely no qualifications whatsoever, I think I’d be great at casting. Your move, Hollywood! How about you? ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/2 "2020-07-14T21:53:10Z")
President of the USA ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/3 "2020-07-14T22:12:46Z")
Movie critic. I helps that as long as you’ve somehow gotten the job, you can say literally anything and never be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/4 "2020-07-14T22:24:15Z")
Bobsledding. In the Olympics, the difference between the winner and last finisher is not exactly weeks. I lean with the best of them. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/5 "2020-07-14T22:37:53Z")
WWII Bomber Bombardier. I’m really good with gizmos like those old bombsights. I could lay the egg right on top of the munitions factory, you bet! ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/6 "2020-07-14T22:38:28Z")
Despite having zero experience at football coaching, I do think I’d make a pretty good offensive or defensive coordinator, or at least strategist (I can’t be a head coach, because that requires all sorts of people-motivation charisma that I like, but I’ve seen far too many senseless, nonsensical play calls and know better). 😉 ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/7 "2020-07-14T23:51:12Z")
I have no official qualifications as a bicycle mechanic, but do have years of servicing my own and family bikes, and volunteered at a charity bike shop that fixed donated bikes to give away to the needy. I would enjoy the job: I would think I would be a good bike mechanic at a bike shop and hope I could make that a part time job when I retire. I have contemplated working at Target assembling bikes during the pandemic so I could have some “official” experience with the role. ---
**Author:** ![PlaceboTarget](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/placebotarget/32/1073_2.png) [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/8 "2020-07-15T02:59:49Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > years of servicing my own and family bikes, and volunteered at a charity bike shop that fixed donated bikes to give away to the needy. That’s a lot of evidence though. 🙂 * * * I have always designed my own living space and I think I would make a good interior designer. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/9 "2020-07-15T03:06:20Z")
There are probably plenty of jobs I would be competent at, but great? Probably none. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/10 "2020-07-15T04:05:26Z")
Lawyer. I’d hire a good law clerk and I could do the rest with my eyes shut. What the hell, let’s go for the whole jelly doughnut, and just say Judge. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/11 "2020-07-15T04:26:30Z")
I’m sure I’d be a good bookkeeper. Not an accountant - I don’t want to be responsible for anything approaching complicated decision-making related to taxes and such - but straight-up keeping track of expenses and income? Hell yeah. I’m really meticulous about that sort of thing, and find it oddly satisfying and soothing to keep track of numbers. So in addition to being good at it, I’d actually enjoy it. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/12 "2020-07-15T06:21:29Z")
Lyricist. I don’t really listen to music, I have no interest in modern pop or trendy crap like that, and there are some styles of music that make me want to bang my head against the wall, and of course I can’t play an instrument, but I still think I’d be pretty good at writing the rhymey word bits. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/13 "2020-07-15T08:33:53Z")
I could be a great poet, Though, knowing me, I’d blow it. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/14 "2020-07-15T12:52:02Z")
I would design and build some spectacular sailing yachts. Not the obscene multi-million dollar ones that only the super wealthy can afford. But yachts in the 12 to 20 meter range. None of this multi-hull space ship looking crap. Proper classic yachts as beautiful below the waterline as above, center cockpit, composite with right amount of bright work, ketches and cutter rig sloops. Fit for blue water sailing. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/15 "2020-07-15T13:25:32Z")
Straight Dope moderator. I’m very good at devising solutions that piss off all involved parties. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/16 "2020-07-15T13:31:39Z")
Had to be posted. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/LnLDMqPBeKQ/hqdefault.jpg "Joe Versus the Volcano") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnLDMqPBeKQ) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/17 "2020-07-15T13:32:45Z")
Big time record producer. I’d be a bad small-time record producer since I’d need to have sound engineering skills as well, but if I had someone to do that for me, I think I’d be able to provide input to what sound we should use and how to achieve that and which tracks to include and how to arrange them so that it meshes with what I and the band would like. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/18 "2020-07-15T13:55:11Z")
Detective. From what I’ve seen on TV, all I need to do is arrest the third person I interview. ---
**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/19 "2020-07-15T14:06:21Z")
Movie critic. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/20 "2020-07-15T14:09:42Z")
Stock trader. Because I’m good at picking random acronyms and making magic with 'em. Tripler Stock advice? KMAGYOYO. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336.md?page=2)