# 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:** 2
**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, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/21 "2020-07-15T14:16:46Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > From what I’ve seen on TV Reality shows? I doubt it. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/22 "2020-07-15T15:20:24Z")
I’d make a great psychiatrist. I can talk to someone for five minutes and know exactly what’s wrong with them and what they need to do to fix their miserable lives. And I wouldn’t be afraid to tell them. But perhaps it’s for the best that I’m not. I could see my treatment methods [quickly devolving](https://youtu.be/FNkpIDBtC2c?t=20). ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/23 "2020-07-15T15:55:28Z")
A Hollywood script doctor. I’m not about to write a whole script. Too much work, and I don’t think I have that many stories to tell. But whenever I watch a movie or TV show, I can’t help myself. I’m constantly thinking things like, “That was an awkwardly worded line; he should have said it this way,” or “They missed a great joke opportunity there,” or “I thought they were going to call back that line from the first act.” Yep, hire me and your movie or TV episode will be a solid 4.5% better, I guarantee it. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/24 "2020-07-15T16:44:53Z")
Supreme court justice. True I don’t know any law (that’s what clerks are for) but on the evidence, neither do they. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/25 "2020-07-15T17:37:09Z")
Male porn star. Sure I’m not in great shape but neither was Ron Jeremy. And I could practice, practice, practice . . . > **[Ron Jeremy filmography](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Jeremy_filmography)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > > Ron Jeremy is a former American pornographic film actor, actor, filmmaker, businessman, television personality and stand-up comedian. ---
**Author:** ![ArtBeforeScience](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@ArtBeforeScience](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArtBeforeScience)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/26 "2020-07-15T17:49:50Z")
The Godfather… ---
**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, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/27 "2020-07-15T17:51:43Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > But whenever I watch a movie or TV show, I can’t help myself. I’m constantly thinking things like, “That was an awkwardly worded line; he should have said it this way,” or “They missed a great joke opportunity there,” or “I thought they were going to call back that line from the first act.” I feel the same way except about books. I also don’t have enough stories to tell to write enough words to make myself rich. But a lot of the time when I’m reading a book I’ll think to myself “that sentence sounded horrible! Just a little rewording will make it sound totally poetic!” I’m convinced I could make any novel 4.5% better-sounding. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/28 "2020-07-15T19:58:34Z")
Writer ( or Asst Writer ) at LSSC (Colbert on CBS). Actually, I’m cheating a little bit because some of the comedy I wrote for his FB fan site has appeared in his monologues, just with no accreditation or acknowledgement ( or paycheck). It’s been pretty well documented on FB for the site with posts by me showing my joke time stamped posted on a Tuesday listed under a vid of that joke being used on a Wed/Thurs. Hey, I’d love the money, but that’s not the point. You can’t exactly staple screen-shots to a resume, can you? Yes, I’m funny. Yes I have the chops. No, that door is not opening. ( My sister says, “why buy the cow when you’re getting the milk for free”? ) I’m guessing that they must be severely under-budgeted or something similar. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/29 "2020-07-16T00:03:59Z")
I think I would have actually done pretty well in the military. I’m good at accepting adverse environments and situations without complaining, accepting things how they are, rather than how I think they should be. I’m happy to follow orders, when I actually exercised on a regular basis I was pretty fit. I’m also really, really glad I didn’t have to follow this career path. On the opposite end of the spectrum, I also think I could’ve been a google coder back in the day. I’m quite smart, am good at finding creative solutions to problems, and love coding. I’ve often wondered where I would have ended up if I pursued CS rather than statistics. ---
**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 16, 2020, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/30 "2020-07-16T18:43:23Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > Yes, I’m funny. Yes I have the chops. Oh, you’re funny? Let’s see it. Make us laugh. [3…2…1…Go…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlEJbs02wAM) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/31 "2020-07-16T19:31:50Z")
Just a gigilo. Dime a dance, offering romance, that’s me. Buy me a steak and a bottle of good wine, I’m yours. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/32 "2020-07-16T19:38:44Z")
I was told I should be a voice actor or voiceover actor by a guy “in the know”. I have grave doubts. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/33 "2020-07-16T19:56:45Z")
I was asked to do a intro for a friend for his standup (Open mike nite). I got some laughs. So the MC asked me to intro the next guy, as he didnt bring a buddy to intro him. Got a few more laughs. Not bring down the house, but a solid warm up laugh. After my buddy bombed disastrously, full on deer in headlights\*, the MC asked me why I didnt try. I told him, that unlike others, I knew my limitations. Sure, for a few lines, 2 minutes, I could be funny. _But_ not for a full routine. - My buddy is a really funny guy, but stage fright is very real. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/34 "2020-07-17T20:12:06Z")
Kid, I made the Priest at my First Confession laugh before I was 10. And no, I never touched my (or anyone elses pants). ---
**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 17, 2020, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/35 "2020-07-17T20:22:29Z")
Was the punchline, “I"m telling everybody!!” ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/36 "2020-07-17T20:22:51Z")
Ok… I admit it. When I was 10, there was a truly Horrible family down the block. They did things like drop their dogs dropping on the public sidewalk so you couldn’t walk down the street. When I was eight, I wanted to get even. They were out of town, so I decided to light a pack of firecrackers and throw it through the old milk door in their kitchen, Fie in them, they could clean up firecracker paper when they got back! Little did I know that they left their dog in the house alone for the whole long weekend. I had nothing against the dog really; everything on earth eats at one end and shits out the other. But… dogs? Firecrackers? Evidently… I scared the shit out of it. Literally. Yes, I was told through sources later that it ran and shat in one long brown stream… from their kitchen… through the carpet of their dining room… in a loop around the Persian Rugs in their living-room, up the white carpeted steps to the second floor, around their bedroom carpet, and finally… under the bed. I was told that it was like a brown-and-yellow treasure map. I always felt badly for that dog. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/37 "2020-07-17T20:31:41Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > Bobsledding. In the Olympics, the difference between the winner and last finisher is not exactly weeks. I lean with the best of them. 😉 Saw Jerry Seinfeld live. He mentioned that the luge is the only sport where you could inadvertently win an Olympic medal. “Oops, sorry” [bump] “Ahhhhh…” “Wow, great luge! Especially the screaming.” Me? Continuity guy on a movie: “No, in the last scene this guy had his hat cocked to the _right._… and that coffee cup was made by a pottery place that didn’t exist in 1964…” But I’d go beyond mere props: “Cut, cut! You’ve already established that she’s tough as nails. So don’t have her fall into the hero’s arms…” ---
**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 17, 2020, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/38 "2020-07-17T20:31:49Z")
Go and sin no more. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/39 "2020-07-17T21:44:03Z")
Padre…? Sadly that is several… Several… decades too late. Besides, some of those stories I’m actually saving for Stephen… ( Should he ever get up off of his ass and connect with me\*. \*Bourbon consumed separately. ) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336/40 "2020-07-18T04:04:47Z")
Mundane Super Hero- have you read the OP? ❓ **What job do you think you’d be great at despite no supporting evidence?** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-job-do-you-think-youd-be-great-at-despite-no-supporting-evidence/915336.md?page=3)