I’ve never had a job interview in the middle of an airport terminal.
“With any luck I’ll be hurling a Molotov at the CEOs primary residence”
A) Alive, because i fled
B) Alive, because i fought back
C) Alive, because i kept my head down
D) Alive, because i agree with the regimes opinions
E) None of the aboveI got asked this question once, and I answered: either working here or going back to school. I graduated with my masters in 2024. But I appreciated that they got me thinking of my future realistically.
If I were to ever be asked this again, I would go more abstract: so many things change on a day-to-day basis, that trying to realistically map out years at a time is not practical, but what I can say is that I am eager to learn, and I love exploring new opportunities for growth.
They probably wouldn’t like that answer either, but at least it’d be honest and not fluff.
It’s an interview. It’s no place for honesty.
The only real answer is "I expect to have grown and matured in the role to where my colleagues find me an invaluable asset and even other departments seek me out as a problem solver within my realm of responsibilities.
It tells management that you want to stay in the role, so they don’t have to hire someone new in 2 years, yet hints at ambition to excel as a good employee. Yet not overly ambitious to get promoted or threaten anyone in the interview.
Broke down into a full-on ugly cry. Went on for about 20 minutes. Made the rest of the interview really awkward…
“Trading bottle caps”
trading bottle caps is lucrative af, think of all the bottle caps you could earn
“Head of bottle cap investment, radiation sickness impact reduction board member, deathclaw manager”
Deathclaw Manager would be an awesome job title on a resume
But like most cool sounding jobs, it’s incredibly dull and soul crushing
“Celebrating the five year anniversary of you asking me that question.”
(I forget which comedian I stole this from)
RIP Mitch Hedberg.
Thanks. RIP Mitch Hedberg.
“Where do you see yourself in 5 years?”
Don’t say died in a heatwave
“Mentoring inexperienced employees while managing a project or two.”
Whew
I am starting to see individuals as how dependent they are on society.
The good news is that I don’t think we need to worry about a “,World War”. The bad news is that when WW3 inevitably happens, it’ll be the worst waste of lives yet.
I don’t know where I was going with that, but that’s where we’re going.
“The world will end in my lifetime” is one of the more narcissistic takes a human can express.
I think “pessimistic” is the word you were looking for. To be narcissistic, they would have to be thinking that they would personally be ending the world.
“Every other civilization that’s fallen doesn’t count. Only my personal experience is real” is a narcissistic sentiment.
I wouldn’t even strictly call it pessimistic, as a lot of the “World is ending” attitude comes from people who have a sadistic desire to see others (particularly privileged elites) kicked out of their comfort zones. I would call it a kind of learned helplessness, as the implicit assumption of living through the End of the World is that we’re beyond the point at which you’re responsible for what comes next.
It’s still not narcissistic. Previous civilizations didn’t have the level of technology required to “end the world” in the literal sense. We do.
And if you go with the assumption that “end of the world” is figurative, why are you limiting it to one instance? I make it to “the end of the day” seven times a week.
Previous civilizations didn’t have the level of technology required to “end the world” in the literal sense.
Modern civilizations don’t have that level of technology. We can make earth inhospitable to a lot of humans and a lot of mammals. But we’re living through the 6th global extinction event, not the 1st. In a million years, modern humanity will be a distant memory one way or another and life will continue to thrive.
The worst case scenario of climate change is the inverse temperature variation of the last great Ice Age. This was an event that killed billions. But it was not an event that extinguished all life. Not even an event that extinguished all human life. And that’s at the end of the century - 2100 - a year none of us were going to see under the most ideal conditions.
It would be presumptuous to believe our grandchildren would live to see “the end of the world”. To insist its happening in the next 40-60 years? Come on.
I make it to “the end of the day” seven times a week.
That’d definitely a better way to understand history. We’ll all live to see the end of our own cycle of existence. Then we’ll pass the torch.
