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inmyriadbitsUGH. I am now remembering just how much I HATE interviewing. I am fairly decent at them, so there's that, but sometimes (especially today, when I have been depressed and unhappy and anxious and shit recently and thus totally lack any kind of equilibrium) I just totally stress out and spend the entire interview with my palms sweating and my mouth going dry and my hands shaking from the adrenaline rush. Awesome.
It would be such a nice job to get though. Cross your fingers for me getting into the second round of interviews, yeah? There were a LOT of people there applying.
So now I'm going to go re-read Mark Twain's essay Concerning The Interview, and feel better about the fact that the art of the interview has inspired fear and loathing and completely incoherent responses for over a century.
ETA: Excerpt -- "You only wish in a dumb way that you hadn't done it, though really you don't know which it is you wish you hadn't done, and moreover you don't care: that is not the point; you simply wish you hadn't done it, whichever it is; done what, is a matter of minor importance and hasn't anything to do with the case. You get at what I mean? You have felt that way? Well, that is the way one feels over his interview..." God, I love that bit. The way the structure mimics the totally scattered, panicky mindset of the interviewee is just perfect. ♥
It would be such a nice job to get though. Cross your fingers for me getting into the second round of interviews, yeah? There were a LOT of people there applying.
So now I'm going to go re-read Mark Twain's essay Concerning The Interview, and feel better about the fact that the art of the interview has inspired fear and loathing and completely incoherent responses for over a century.
ETA: Excerpt -- "You only wish in a dumb way that you hadn't done it, though really you don't know which it is you wish you hadn't done, and moreover you don't care: that is not the point; you simply wish you hadn't done it, whichever it is; done what, is a matter of minor importance and hasn't anything to do with the case. You get at what I mean? You have felt that way? Well, that is the way one feels over his interview..." God, I love that bit. The way the structure mimics the totally scattered, panicky mindset of the interviewee is just perfect. ♥
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