Hi everyone! I hope you’re all well. Today is Wednesday, and time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you would like to participate in the challenge, you can find the list of topics for 2023 here, and if you would like to read other people’s responses to this week’s topic, you can do that here.

A Job I Wouldn’t Be Good At

Well… okay… which jobs would I not be good at? There are so many. As I said last week, I’m pretty much only good at writing, and so I suppose I could say all other jobs.

Although that’s not true. I did say I was good at doing admin and delivering newspapers.

I suppose the obvious ones are where I’ll start. For example, I would love to be an astronaut… but only if I can be an astronaut five hundred years from now and fly to Mars on a ship that could get me there in less than a day. I have had nightmares about falling (somehow) out of a spaceship and being stranded in space between Earth and wherever the ship was going. The idea of exploring space appeals to me though my claustrophobia just is not conducive to the life of a spaceman.

Similarly, I would love to work on an underwater research station. However, I would be a terrible candidate for the same reason I stated above: claustrophobia. I also have a phobia of deep water, so the underwater research station would have to be in my bathtub.

I’d be a terrible school teacher. I have such high regard for teachers. It’s such a noble thing to want to help shape and prepare the minds of the next generation for the world. The trouble is kids seem to be getting ever more violent towards their teachers (and the other students). I know I couldn’t handle the stress that seems to go with teaching.

I used to want to be a vet when I was a kid. I wanted to help make animals feel better and thought it would be a marvellous way to earn a living. That is until we had a careers day at school when a vet came to speak to us about what it was really like; he told us that, while yes, you can have a lovely time treating simple things like cuts and scrapes and giving dogs and cats their booster shots, there is a more serious side to the job. He explained that often, it was necessary to euthanise at least one animal a day. That was something I hadn’t even thought of, and I knew right then that I wouldn’t have been able to do that. I cry at those adverts for the RSPCA when they sometimes show (actor) dogs in the rain, abandoned by the side of the road. No, that job is not for me. I would be an absolutely dreadful vet.

Luckily, up to now, at least, writing is starting to work out for me. Goodness knows what I’d do if I couldn’t write!

Well, that’s me done jabbering for today. I’m looking forward to reading some of your responses and finding out what jobs you all think you’d be bad at.

For now, though, thank you, as ever, for spending some of your time with me today. It means the world.

Until next time,

George

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