As I transition into adulthood I have been looking for a sustainable income to get me through the coming years. Luckily I've already scored a few job interviews which have made me realise that nothing makes you question yourself like a job interview.
Where do you see yourself in five years?
What are your biggest weaknesses?
How would the people in your life describe you?
These are some of the hardest question that you can be forced to answer about yourself. How would the people in my life describe me? Is the way they see me very different to the way I see myself? Do I think more or less of myself than they do? Does the positivity that I try to carry with me shine through or do my weaker moments in which I complain about trivialities let me down? Do I always succeed in treating others the way I would like to be treated? Maybe it's healthy to be forced to self evaluate every once in a while but that doesn't make it any easier.
In addition to being asked a myriad of difficult questions, in a job interview, particularly for the events and retail jobs that I've been interviewing for, you're trying to show the full extent of your bubbly and engaging personality in as little as 5 or 10 minutes all the while trying not to reveal your sweaty palms and hiding the stutter that is prone to resurfacing in stressful situations.
In the end I suppose that these stressful situations are character building, if nothing else. So go, apply for jobs you're not qualified for. The worst that could happen is a chance to practice your interviewing skills and what should we be aiming for if not to learn and make ourselves better?
Nb. This post is shorter than usual because just before I sat down to write it my roommate and I decided to make fairy floss which ended in a splatter of molten sugar and a now very painful, very blistered and unusable dominate hand.
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