Job Interviews...

[joanna bujes]

At 05:36 PM 06/04/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Sponsoring organization's rep: "What is your occupation?"
>Me: "I have a degree in philosophy."
>Sponsoring organization's rep (after a long pause): "But what can you
>actually do?"

Maybe all job interviews are alike. Excerpt from my first job interview 
(for post of secretary in an insurance firm):

Q. What's the last math course you took?
A. Vector calculus.
Q. Yean, but can you add?

(Didn't get the job, of course.)

Joanna Bujes