Just doing a quick update to the list. Here's a special on every job that Nicola Tesla shouldn't do. A quick rundown of Tesla: mad scientist incarnate. You name it, he tried to make it.

1. Demolition expert:
Tesla might be the perfect demolisher... if he could stop at one. More likely he'd implode the building and then move on to the neighborhood.

2. Meteorologist:
He'd never be wrong because he'd use his weather machine to make sure his predictions came true. He'd then make the weather more interesting with extra rains of fire, frogs and hurricanes. That's right, a rain of hurricanes.

3. Seismologist:
He'd get bored and try to shake things up a bit.

4. Astronomer:
Get bored and blow up a planet or a galaxy.

5. Ornithologist:
The damn bird would fly too fast, so he'd pull his death ray and slow it up a bit.

6. Radio personality:
If someone pissed him off over the phone, he'd run a current through the lines and electrocute them. And the audience wouldn't be safe, either.

7. Power grid repair engineer:
He'd replace power lines with air-core resonant transformers. ZAP!

8. Policeman:
He'd just blow all the crooks out of their shoes and call it a day.

9. Tech support:
50/50 he'd either zap the person using the phone line or tell them how to turn their toaster into a heat ray.

10. Artillery:
Do I even have to tell you why you don't want Tesla near the howitzer?

11. Web designer:
If there's anyone who knows the CSS for "Zap the end-user" it's Tesla.

I'm sure that the list could go on much further, but I think you get the picture.

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