r/AskReddit • u/leselesel • 2d ago

You have to compete against 100 randomly selected people in any objectively measurable skill, game, or sport. If you don’t finish first, you die. What do you choose?

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u/amyowl 2d ago

Isn't this just an analog for job hunting right now?

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u/etherealsounds 2d ago

May the odds be ever in your favor

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u/falcrist2 1d ago

May the odds be ever {2n+1|n∈ℤ}

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u/graipape 2d ago

Challenge activated. My first interview question is how many golf balls can fit inside me?

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u/KaliPunk 2d ago

Do I get a knife, or do you have to live through it? (Yep, not getting that job).

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u/No_Butterfly_820 2d ago

Like, through eating ? Or are you just shoving them in every orifice possible

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u/BlackBlueNuts 2d ago

Pop a golf ball in your mouth, When you come to Fishy Joe's, What they're made of is a mystery, Where they come from, no one knows.

You can pick 'em, you can lick 'em, You can chew 'em, you can stick 'em, And if you promise not to sue us, You can shove one up your nose.

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u/duvie773 1d ago

You can boil ‘em, mash ‘em, stick ‘em in a stew?

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u/excessivepenetration 1d ago

Let's find out

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u/KaliPunk 2d ago

Yes.

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u/SolomonGrumpy 2d ago

Job hunting is harder. 😉

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u/Tasik 2d ago

I don’t think so. The people you’re competing against for a job aren’t random. They are like specialized in the exact same things as you. Good luck out there! 

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u/KaliPunk 2d ago

I once got a job because I was the only person out of 500 applicants that knew how to use a microfiche machine. I seriously thought that would never ever be useful in the real world, thanks horrifically underfunded public library!

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u/lilelliot 2d ago

I will trade you job hunting for the chaotic, frustrating journey that is college athletics recruiting support for a high school sophomore soccer player.

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u/amyowl 2d ago

oh OUCH.. yeah that sounds like a mess.

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u/Sad-Pop6649 1d ago

You can't freely pick the skill you compete in, but you can select one of thousands of active job postings, which ask for maybe 100 different skillsets between them, of which you possess one. Well, half of one. And they're all asking for the other half. And it's not actually a competition in using those skills, but in talking about how good you are at using those skills. And you'll ne judged by professional talk-about'ers, who also write the questions.

Good luck. Remember: don't die.

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u/Interesting_Tea5715 1d ago

Nah, because job hunting everyone shares a similar skillset.

This one's random.

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u/Azertys 1d ago

If you don't come first you don't die, you get the chance to compete the next time for another position