President, no question. I’d do a great job and after only 4 years I get to retire with a life time pension. I really don’t want to live in DC so any other the life time appointments there would suck. Governor wouldn’t be a bad gig but the pay isn’t great and the retirement package isn’t nearly as good as the president.
My thought as well!
I’d take note of the way Trump has managed to get ‘acting’ Cabinet members all over the place, and use that to circumvent the GOP-controlled Senate as I fired Trump’s lickspittles and replace them with people who have a clue. (Anybody from Obama’s Cabinet who wanted their old jobs back, would get them, pronto.) Ditto sub-cabinet positions, U.S. attorneys (gotta throw Trump in prison!), and a full investigation of the human rights abuses at the border.
Definitely mayor. It’s a small burg filled with rednecks and meth dealers, so I could actually make a bit of a difference. We also have a substantial budget surplus to work with, so I could drag some parts kicking and screaming into the 19th century. The “indefinite” part was the clincher. 
Interesting. How does a burg of rednecks and meth dealers manage to run a big budget surplus? (Unless you have extremely low town-budget spending)
I think supreme court justice might be easiest for me to hide my incompetence from the world. I can handle sitting through oral arguments saying nothing just as easily as Justice Thomas. There is no way that I would be the sole hold out on an 8-1 decision, so I would always have another justice that could write the decision I would just have to sign my name. My decisions would probably be based more on moral opinion than established law, but that might not be a bad thing.
I think I would pick governor, if I could pick a deep blue state with a legislature willing to work with me.
I’d like to pass things like universal health care, renewable energy laws, labor laws, etc.
I agree, and it’s why being a justice is the best job. Judges as a rule can be as hard working or as lazy as they choose, and they will be tolerated either way.
Once you are a Supreme, either you don’t read or write anything and just vote with your ideological wing, or you can be a voracious reader and stay up at all hours pontificating about the legal issues at play. Or just pick and choose - if you want to be the “free speech” guy, you can choose to only wake up when that issue arises.
It’s a sweet gig.
As governor, I could commute a lot of prison sentences & get some people into rehab or home to their families. That sounds pretty good, even if some of those guys later commit violent crimes and the press give me grief like they did Mike Huckabee.
Where’s ambassador? - that’s my actual choice. I went with cabinet member instead. Office of the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, here I come.
Supreme Court Justice, absolutely. I wouldn’t think of accepting any of the others.
I have zero interest in being a politician at any level. I picked department head even though there is a lot of politics involved. The better job is to be Deputy Secretary. The person who really runs the department even during regime changes.
The pay isn’t nearly enough. I made more than that last year and didn’t have any of the responsibilities.
Thomas famously doesn’t ask questions during oral arguments because he feels all the important questions have been asked through multiple levels of appeal. I can’t help but feel he’s correct. Some Justices like to hear themselves talk. He has written quite a few decisions so you can’t emulate him there if you want to stay lazy.
The neat thing about being a Supreme Court justice is that you also get to hire people to do your writing for you: