whenever we were interviewing someone at my old job back in san francisco, we would all take turns during the zoom call asking The Tentative Candidate two or three questions. we could ask whatever we wanted. i always endeavored to give them weird ones that had absolutely nothing to do with the job. and usually i went last so they got some dreamy ones to go out on. you don’t want to hit someone with some heavy stuff when you’re the final inquirer! you gotta go easy on them.
anyway: one time we interviewed this girl whom we ended up hiring. her name was julie and she and i worked together as writers for almost two years. i liked her a lot. the questions i wanted to ask her were all about dreams and premonitions and space and ghosts and phenomena beyond human comprehension. you know, fun stuff. sue me! but my boss politely asked me to scale it back a little (lol)
i kept this question:
“What is your favorite color, month, day of the week, geometric shape, and celestial body?”
i think that’s a good one!
my answers WERE and REMAIN:
- purple
- november
- thursday
- tesseract
- jupiter
to me they all feel spiritually like the same thing. you know?
(ask yourself: what are your answers?? perhaps they are more crucial than they seem . . . in fact, go ahead and tell me if you want!!)
a long time ago now, during a job interview for a writing gig in austin, i met with this guy who was essentially mid-30s me and vaguely i suspected that at the time. he wore all black and had the shades closed and used lamps with the overhead light off and showed up to work at 10:30 am on account of him being an insomniac. he did not ask me any questions pertaining to the position for which i was interviewing. instead he made me take two proto-buzzfeed quizzes online about which wings i would have and what country i would be. i got “bat wings” and “egypt” (???). anyway, he hired me based on my results, and because we both stayed up till 3 am and had black circles around our eyes. i love it!!!