Careers Where You Can Be Wrong with Alarming Regularity and Still Keep Your Job
I’m thinking that perhaps I should have been a weatherman or a politician, because those must be pretty stress-free jobs. After all, you can be wrong with alarming regularity and still keep your job.
In fact, it’s usually the off-work things that cause you to lose your job. Get involved in a scandal of some sort, and you’re probably toast. But, you can wrongly predict the weather day after day, and, apparently so long as you’re able to explain why you were wrong (weather patterns shifted, El Niño, a dozen Super Doppler radar systems spread across the region just aren’t enough, etc.), they’ll keep putting you on-screen day after day after day. Or, you can pass mind-numbingly stupid legislation time after time, and still keep your job just so long as you can argue with a straight face that it was “for the children.”
Odd that incompetence isn’t a reason to lose your job.
And, for a third easy job, how about being a consumer reporter? This has got to be the easiest job in the world. Just subscribe to Consumer Reports magazine, and recycle their reports to create your TV bit. Not enough reports in the magazine to fill your schedule? No problem. Just point out the obvious and hype it up like you’re really rolling up your sleeves and getting out there and investigating this stuff.
Here’s an example from this past week. One of the local consumer reporters had a story on how to save money on your repair bill. His advice? Fix it yourself. Don’t know how? Look it up on Google! Wow! Probably took more time to do the promos than it did to research the story.
If sloth and general incompetence aren’t enough to cause you to lose your job, then your job probably isn’t very important. On the other hand, these jobs typically pay reasonably well, so if an easy day at work is your thing, perhaps you might want to look at a career change into something that’s not so much of a mental challenge.
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I agree. What did Hillary say when she got caught in that lie about arriving under cover due to gun fire? “I made a mistake, it proves I’m human” - No it proves that she is incompetent and will say anything to get in the job but will remain unaccountable for what she says or does.
I would like to be a politician please, oh the luxury of it all.
And Obama doesn’t remember seeing surveys on which he handwrote his responses.
And McCain probably doesn’t remember… much.
Let’s dump all three and start over.