Only 95% Weird Today

Today I dressed up in a real skirt and blouse with jacket, wrapped myself in my new big warm turquoise coat, almost looked like a big blanket wrapped round me, ( stylish, huh?) and headed for an interview. Between here and my destination, there were icy snowflakes falling, and it was very cold, has been for a few nights. I can only imagine that this weekend it will be might chilly, and maybe frozen round these parts.

It was fun being out and around, and I always enjoy a good interview, it is just nice to be with people, and I think interviewing is fun. This interview was with a down to earth man, he was not pretentious, didn’t ask a lot of those juvenile and ridiculous questions often asked in interviews, ones that there is only one real answer to, like,” is this what you wanted to be when you were growing up? To which one in all honesty can only reply, “well, is this what you wanted to be while growing up.” But then you make them realize they are asking foolish questions, but what can one say, “ Yes, I always wanted to be a Burger queen.” Or, “ Yes, I wanted more than anything all my life to sit in front of a computer typing, it is just a slice of heaven, I am dying to experience.”

Or what about this one, “ Tell me your weak points. To which you are obviously supposed to make sound like a weak point, but it really emphasizes your strength. Really! Who ever was stupid enough to make these up, didn’t deserve to have any position of any kind of authority, because they obviously lack an element necessary to think, ..a brain!

Or what about, “ Tell me a long term goal and a short term goal. ( Obviously they aren't paying attention, because the goal is obvious, it is to get a job, and money, to eat and survive, or better a lot of money to be wasteful and decadent.

Have you heard this one, “with all the interesting things you have done with your life, why would you want to do something as boring as this? ( Maybe the same reason you do it?)

There is no end to the stupid questions stupid people ask you at an interview, is there, I mean , what can you expect from stupidity, except stupidity?

A novel approach might be to get to know the person, maybe talk about, heaven forbid, their personal life! Who they really are, what they love, what they need, what kind of ideas they have, what they like doing, what they loved doing as a kid, what motivates them, the kinds of things that will actually tell an employer where to put someone, or how to use their talents. Too practical I guess? Must be similiar to most psycho therapist who are afraid to speak about their own lives, to their clients, or remove that separateness, and let real love and compassion through. Heaven must forbid this love, but you know some really successful therapists have actually gone out on a limb and done this. Shock me!

It happens to be a weird world, but today, my life was only 95% weird, because I had a completely real interview!