I'd hate pitching rubbish products I don't believe in, I'd feel bad trying to hawk rubbish products for people's hard earned cash, I'm not particularly good at sticking up for myself even when I'm right, I don't have a business head and I hate talking myself up.

I'd be crap!

You?

Probably as good as Noorul was.

Refresh my memory!

Basically doing little worth the edit, crap leader, novice in business, getting verbally drilled into by Nick every time I'm in the boardroom, etc.

P.S. OK, I know, I slag off the candidates on this forum when I know I'd be crap if I was on TA, but c'mon! I'm only human.

I reckon I'd be so focused on making a good product I'd lose the team the task by making some horrible miscalculation like the sandalwood oil fiasco.

I don't have a business head either. Yet I find myself watching these contestants who supposedly do have good business brains making to most awful decisions and being so generally incompetent that I can't help but think to myself "I could scarcely be any worse."
I bet I'm not the only one to think that way.

I would win, I'm brilliant, hardworking, good emotional intelligence, strong willed and principled... but of course I would not get on the show in the first place with all those 'drawbacks'

Really? I think with that level of extreme overconfidence you'd be a shoo-in.

Even though I was in the retail trade for over 20 years, I can't sell something that I don't know.
If that makes sense....

The things i was selling, I knew the ins and outs of, because you need to know about a product to sell it.
I can never do the "here, sell me this item I've randomly handed to you" type thing (I seem to remember one of the interviewers getting one of the apprentices (Possibly Badger?) to sell them their stapler.).

I'd be really good on the tasks, but quiet and keeping to myself, and I'd be really appalling in the boardroom, so would probably be fired the first week my team lost...

I often resent the programme when it seems to value confident, mouthy underperformers over good steady workers... entirely unlike real-life of course

I seem also to remember one selling their wristwatch. Anselm perhaps. He did a good job. I would have been induced to buy!

Yeah, Ansell did a hypothetical sell of a watch in the interviews to the now ex-interviewer Paul Kemsley. That was PK's own watch - but Ansell did a good job all the same. PK wasn't impressed with him though.

I'd fundamentally give it 150% on the show. I wouldn't bother if the other candidates liked me or not because they'd have to respect my business skills.

On the off chance that I was called into the boardroom I'd fight my corner and the PM better have a good reason for bringing me in because I know that i would have contributed to the task and LudAl shouldn't fire me.

It will be an emotional journey.............hang on that's when I win X-Factor

I think I'd be good on the creative side, coming up with ideas and maybe selling (talking b*llocks is a gift of mine) Apart from that though, the business statistics, margins and various other facts and figures would probably go completely to pot if I was in control of them.

I'd probably make a Sandalwood/Cedarwood mistake, spending too much time concentrating on making the product and not thinking logically with a business mind.

I'd love a good argument in the boardroom though, but I don't know if I could handle the continuous stress of the contest. I'd probably start losing my marbles by about week 6 or 7. If I lasted that long.
If I reached the interviews I'd probably be ripped apart by them.

I'd be fab.. I'd throw you under the bus in the boardroom

Grrr!
You would have to be ready for a fight though. If all else failed I'd lure you into going all 'Paloma' on me and you'd get fired instead.

Couldn't be arsed. I wear jeans to work

And I'd go all Manda and throw a hissy

But I'd still get fired then 'cos that battle axe Karen would complain about me being unladylike in business.
I want margaret back

those early starts would kill me - so for that reason I'm out ... err have i got the right programme?!

Trying to stay focused on the job would kill me with the early starts and late finishes, and as I am pretty thin-skinned, I'd get all emotional and tearful around task two. I also have a lousy business head so that may count against me, but even I would be able to work out the price of a bread roll.

On the plus side, I'm good with words and can stick up for myself and any underdog, so would be able to keep the bullies and big mouths under control (until I cry!).

Oh yeah, I haven't got big blue eyes (this years must-have accessory), and I'm articulate, ethical and polite, so I guess I'd be out on week one.

Abysmal.

I'd totally fly under the radar because of my lack of business knowledge. I might not get brought into the boardroom initially because of my low profile (I'd duck out of arguments, etc), but my lack of contribution would catch up with me and I'd be out on my arse

I'd be good at pitching, I hate selling but I can do it, I'm intelligent and persuasive, and I'm not sure I'm the best leader but I'm competent.

But I'm also a wheelchair user. Whenever I watch the Apprentice it's clear that I would not be able to compete and nor would most other physically disabled people.

Even if they gave me a ground floor bedroom and put grab rails in the bathroom, I'd still need 10+ hours of sleep each night in order to function. Plus of course I wouldn't be able to access all the places where they pitch or even all of the rewards!

To that extent I do find it depressing to watch the programme. It's not even slightly inclusive. Disabled people can be good, effective, even inspirational businessmen, but the format of the Apprentice is rather contrived and would only allow people who fit their mould to take part.

Everything I touched would turn to sold! My first words weren't Mummy, they were money! If I was an apple pie, the apples inside would be oranges! I am Robo 'The Brand' Kitten.

I'd be terrible Especially at selling stuff - I cringe just watching them do it. I'd be quite good at the thinking up concepts tasks and creative projects though.
I also don't think I'd be able to stab someone in the back just to save myself if I didn't think they had done anything particularly wrong but had been dragged into the boardroom anyway.

I'm sure I would be great. All DS posters would be.

We improvise, adapt, overcome!


Oh. I remember, that was Clint in Heartbreak Ridge.

*giggle*

That's true. I'd fall down on not having a ridiculous catchphrase.