Jobs you just couldn't do ...
Posted by:
eyoung on
July 25, 2008 at
10:06AM CST
A job I couldn't do: Drive the pacesetter car. Yesterday, while watching the bikes race through Downtown Racine, I found myself oddly obsessed with the driver of the Volkswagen. "Now that is a job I could not do," I told my husband. "I would be a nervous wreck." The car would come around the corner and hundreds of cyclists would come flying after it. I think that would be incredibly unnerving, no matter how much practice I got. I'd be constantly worrying, "Am I going too slow? Am I going to hit a wandering spectator? Is a cyclist going to suddenly speed up and I'll be in his way? Ahhh, they're all going to HIT ME!!!" Plus, to drive the same small circuit 50-plus times? The first time we saw the pacesetter car, my 6-year-old yelled, "There's a car in the way! There's a car in the way!" And it did indeed look like someone had unknowingly turned onto Main Street and was trying to get the heck off the race route before causing a major upset in the Racine.org Cycling Classic. For the same reasons, I also couldn't be an accompanying pianist, no matter how enormous my talent. One wrong note and I'd ruin someone's wedding, vocal performance, an entire musical production ... Other jobs I'm pretty sure I couldn't do: Taxidermist. Pet groomer. Hair dresser. Pastor. Exterminator. Inspirational speaker. What jobs couldn't you do?
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