This is one of the most rational answers to this question that has ever been committed to video.
The last time I had that odious inquiry tossed at me, I said that in the era of impermanence of everything, with major corporations getting swallowed up right and left, others falling over and evaporating, and 90% of small businesses failing in three years or less, any plan longer than the end of the week was purely speculative. As far as I was concerned, since business today only cares about the current quarter’s bottom line and not the actual long term, I was best served by doing likewise. The interviewer didn’t like that, and I didn’t care, because the fact that they’d asked the question told me everything about the predatory nature of their corporate culture that I needed to know. That question is designed to reveal whether the applicant has the desired level of ruthless ambition focused on manipulable goals, and I abandoned those attitudes decades ago.
Love it! A MoaDJ (Mother of all Dad Jokes) with something to ponder wrapped in the middle.This was originally released August 14, 2016. So not only is it profound, it is timely!
So Irk, where do you see yourself in 10 days? It IS closer than it appears!
Probably sitting on my ass, checking the meh forum.
@lisaviolet
With a cat on your lap.
This is one of the most rational answers to this question that has ever been committed to video.
The last time I had that odious inquiry tossed at me, I said that in the era of impermanence of everything, with major corporations getting swallowed up right and left, others falling over and evaporating, and 90% of small businesses failing in three years or less, any plan longer than the end of the week was purely speculative. As far as I was concerned, since business today only cares about the current quarter’s bottom line and not the actual long term, I was best served by doing likewise. The interviewer didn’t like that, and I didn’t care, because the fact that they’d asked the question told me everything about the predatory nature of their corporate culture that I needed to know. That question is designed to reveal whether the applicant has the desired level of ruthless ambition focused on manipulable goals, and I abandoned those attitudes decades ago.
Irk is (uncharacteristically) not being quite literal enough - you never see your actual whole self - you can only see reflections or captured images.
@macromeh And for the most part, they aren’t even the original photons that bounced off of you in the first place!
Love it! A MoaDJ (Mother of all Dad Jokes) with something to ponder wrapped in the middle.This was originally released August 14, 2016. So not only is it profound, it is timely!
So Irk, where do you see yourself in 10 days? It IS closer than it appears!