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This is why guidance counselors have such a bad reputation. :-)

That's like saying "If I were the guidance counselor of a strong tough guy, I'd steer him to careers in furniture-moving or being a longshoreman, rather than lawyer or doctor, based on whether his being strong and tough gives him any advantages". There's actually real problems with high-school athletes being steered into trying for sports careers, then having nothing when those careers fail.

Heck, it's not even a good list :-). For example, X-ray vision is a lot more useful for someone in medicine (even if not a doctor - nurse or physician assistant) than TSA Screener. TSA already has the equipment, the problem is getting people to use it, and 99.999+% of it is wasted on innocent people (hence Superman would doing the same time-wasting). Whereas in a medical context, the percentage of useful application, and the social value, would be much higher.

And what about "soldier" as a good choice? (seems like a lot better than "roadie"!)

You probably want "Priest" instead of "Rabbi".

By the way, while you're correct that there's no _a priori_ reason to think Superman would make a good speechwriter, he's apparently at least a decent to excellent writer via own skill, not superpowers, besides typing very fast (after all, his stuff is apparently good enough for "a major metropolitan newspaper").

Thanks for the thoughts/laughs.

On the contrary, the whole time-reversal thing would be great for a short-order cook. (Terry Pratchett riffs on this in Mort, where Death takes a holiday (literally).)