The best job: being a child entertainer, like the Wiggles or Gay Waldo or whatever they have now. Think about it…it’s perfect! You can tell the same jokes over and over and your audience never clues in. Your audience has ridiculously low expectations, and most of them have no choice but to listen to you (as a kid, I was forever being force-marched off to these things). Sure, soon your fans will grow up and forget about you, but there are always more where they came from!

The worst job: being an entertainer who is a child. There’s a lot of media attention given to “child prodigies”, so you’ll be sitting pretty for a few years. But what happens when you start growing hair on your chin? Suddenly you go from being a child genius, to an adult who happens to be moderately good at something. Let’s take acting: you have Macaulay Culkin, who garnered rave reviews for his performance as the kid in Home Alone. But fast forward however many years, and where is he now? It’s one thing to be typecast: it’s another thing to be typecast into a role you won’t be able to play in a few more years.

What do you think? Let me know with a comment. Yes, I know this site doesn’t have a comments, just use the power of positive thinking. My mother says you can do anything with positive thinking.