Crooked Purple Rain! - "Why would you like to work for our company?"

22nd January 2012

Post reblogged from Keep dreaming. with 10 notes

“Why would you like to work for our company?”

I don’t know how to lie properly, so I never have a definitive answer. I can’t just tell people I need the money because I’m supporting myself, or because I hate where I’m working right now. That’s too bland, too broad, too honest. Companies want to hear some jazzy shit about why a job as a crew member at Chipotle or Starbucks is going to take me places.

~~It’s really fucking not.~~

I don’t understand why we can’t just be honest like our parents taught us to be.

I would like to work at your company because I need to afford public transportation to and from school. If I don’t have money, I can’t go to school. If I don’t go to school, I can’t get a career that will help me afford my place. If I can’t afford my place, I won’t have anywhere to live.

If I don’t have anywhere to live, I don’t know what is going to happen to me.

It’s funny how the things that matter don’t.

I can relate. The last time I was asked that question, I replied: “I need money, and I’d like to make that money by doing something @ least tangentially related to what I studied in college.” I got the job, and have had it for almost three years, but I’m pretty sure that I’m an exception.

Source: mathinthemargins