Choose Carefully 

    Some people choose a career or an activity with such a small chance of success that it begs the question, “Why are they trying to do this?” 
    An example was the fellow who tried to hijack a Minnesota Department of Transportation snowplow. This guy was standing along the road so the snowplow driver stopped to see if he was okay. The thief climbed up into the cab and told the driver to get out. The driver refused, so the thief got out. A little later a pickup driver saw this same fellow standing in the middle of the highway and stopped to see if he needed help. 
    The thief grabbed the driver’s jacket and tried to drag him out of his car but the driver resisted by driving off, dragging the thief for some distance down the street. 
    If I was a career counselor I would have to advise this fellow to find a line of work where success didn’t depend so much on being able to influence the actions of others. 

    Also in the category of not doing what you’re not good at: A gentleman named Rudy, in Australia, tried to shoot his friend’s cow. An aside: We have no idea why Rudy was trying to shoot his friend’s cow. Maybe he didn’t have one of his own, or maybe he was just mad at this particular cow, or maybe he was mad at his friend. Who knows? 
    So after luring the cow into a shed, Rudy took aim and fired. Another aside: We’ve got to believe that this shed was not so big that Rudy couldn’t get rather close to this cow.
    Anyway, the shot missed the cow. Another aside: I had a gun like that once, in fact I still do, it’s sitting in the corner of my office just in case I ever get attacked by a cow. 
    Rudy aimed and fired again. This time the bullet missed the cow; surprise, surprise, went through the back wall of the shed, through a wooden fence, then through the door of a passing car and into the leg of the driver. 
    The authorities took a dim view of his marksmanship, fined him $1,000 Australian, and took away his gun license for five years. Before the authorities got involved Rudy did finally manage to shoot the cow. 
   I would have liked to know what his friend thought about Rudy’s actions. We could ask the cow what it thought, but it’s a little late for that.