Re: Moving to Japan
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 06:27:13 GMT, "Rykk"
<NospamIshnar@nospamhotmail.nospamcom> brought down from the Mount
tablets inscribed:
>Mr. Smith wrote:
>> "Michael Cash" <mikecash@buggerallspammers.com> wrote in message
>> news:k980t0hhmfdi4fpu78lqkg3bn17vp34dop@4ax.com...
>>> On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:44:04 +1000, windsor <fake@none.com> brought
>>
>>>> Depth of rapport with the interviewer is also important.
>>>
>>> That's a very pleasant way of rephrasing "sucking up".
>>
>> that's silly, "sucking up" is usually a poor way to impress someone
>> at an interview. It usually means you don't have anything interesting
>> to say and you are easily intimidated.
>
>Unfortunately that would be me. Not that I am so much intimidated the
>person as by the act of attempting to establish rapport. It isn't that I
>have nothing to say either, but that I am completely uninterested in all
>non-functional conversation. So as long as the conversation is pertinant I
>do fine. But if it turns to something trivial such as the weather, or
>personal, "I had a baby yesterday," then I am filled wave of disinterest. I
>have absolutely no idea how to respond to these completely irrelevant
>remarks. Interviews seem to involve one non-sequitor after another.
Then actually doing the eikaiwa grind would just seem like one
extremely protracted Interview From Hell for you.
--
Michael Cash
"I am sorry, Mr. Cash, but we are unable to accept your rap sheet in lieu of
a high school transcript."
Dr. Howard Sprague
Dean of Admissions
Mount Pilot College
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