Sun and the Big Interview

First off today is Sun’s Birthday, Happy Birthday… Sun is truly one of the lights of my life. Yesterday was her first ever "official" job interview; she is at that age where it is truly cool to be Dad. Something I’ve learned over the years is that when your kids gets into their mid 20s and life is starting to push them around a bit, you will find you suddenly are able to associate with the questions regardless of the gender and age gaps and trust me I know a thing or two about interviewing for a job.

One of the things that sucks about consulting is that you could do the same job for a different company every day for the next 5 years, publish 2 or 3 books on the subject, conduct seminars with 1000s in attendance and be called "a god to the industry" by Business Week; every single door you walk into will have a manager that really has no clue what you do sitting there ready to interview you. The funny thing is that it’s the same questions over and over again. I even had an interviewer once ask me "Why would you like to work at X, Inc.?". In the back of my mind I'm asking "What kind of question is that for a consultant?" Oh well to the question I said "I don’t." Yes I did pause just to witness the look on his face, it was obvious no one had told him why I was being interviewed, then I continued with "I’m only here to setup and map your EDI link with Home Depot, I'll be gone in a few days." Turned out the company actually had an official interviewer and that was all he did was sit down with every potential employee and ask the same block of questions. Now there is a job with "Promotion" written all over it. As they say "If you can’t be fired, you also can’t be promoted", look like they have themselves a future CEO there. Go figure.