Tomorrow I have a really important interview for a job at the Springville Museum of Art. It's the second round of interviews, and this one is a bit more important than the first. I'm nervous. I hate the kind of questions they ask in interviews - they're so abstract and I always end up saying something inane.
If I were interviewing people for a job, I would ask questions like: "Are you willing to take out the trash?" or "Will you stay up till midnight cleaning up after a long party at the museum?" or "If we ask you to do something extremely dull, will you do it without complaining?" or "Will you constantly worry about what your actions will cost the museum?" Because those are the types of things you do at the museum. Of course I get along with other people, of course I try not to argue with others, etc., so why ask those questions?
I actually have no idea what types of questions I will be asked tomorrow, and there's no way to prepare for it either. I really, really, really want the job, and I am so hoping I will say the right things.
It's a dinner and an interview. Yikes. So I also have to worry about not spilling on myself and knowing when I can take bites (so as to avoid speaking with my mouth full) and how much I can eat and trying not to act like the foodie I am.
Anyway, wish me luck...it looks like a handful of people made it to round two, and it'll be extremely competitive.
Oooh, you get food out of your interview; now, that's worth it. I wish my boss would have asked me this when I was interviewed, "would you be willing to do hard things that are not at all part of your job descriptions such as edit articles soon to be submitted to academic journals?" (Just because I'm an English major doesn't mean I am good at anything English oriented.)
ReplyDeleteI've never complained about my job, out loud, but this is one point where I want to say, "I don't get paid enough for this." There are professionals who do what I do.
So, Shell, you just remember that you practically have a master's degree in something that the majority of the world knows nothing about and act like it.
Right, what she said.
ReplyDeleteI have complete faith in you. Also, you may want to volunteer essential information such as your willingness to take out the trash. I would find someone like that VERY refreshing.