grahamg
Old codger
- Location
- South of Manchester, UK
Anyone who has ever attended a job interview, certainly at a large company, may well have been asked "What do you wish to achieve in your life/career".
A stock answer is said to be, "I would like your job", (thus demonstrating the level of your ambition, that one supposes the questioner was interested in very quickly, though they might think your answer a little "trite" or disingenuous, if you used that particular answer).
If you've risen through your job to the level where you get to ask the questions yourself, those needed during a selection process, you may have asked the same question, (I dont think I ever did raise this question btw, though I witnessed others I assisted in the interviews doing so).
Whenever I was asked the question I was pretty much flummoxed and couldn't come up with a decent answer. Maybe I said something like "I wished to do well in my job", but I'm sure I never demonstrated much ambition, if any, (nor very convincingly), and yet I suppose I was being truthful in describing my relatively limited ambitions, (and you could ask, "Well who doesn't wish to do well in their jobs" couldn't you).
If asked today what my ambitions are, or might be, the only truthful answer would be to be able to give is "To do pretty much what I want/like in life, without being told what to do"!
How many married men can say they're so lucky as to have achieved this aim, (and I'm far from it in my own life due to circumstances outside my control)?
A stock answer is said to be, "I would like your job", (thus demonstrating the level of your ambition, that one supposes the questioner was interested in very quickly, though they might think your answer a little "trite" or disingenuous, if you used that particular answer).
If you've risen through your job to the level where you get to ask the questions yourself, those needed during a selection process, you may have asked the same question, (I dont think I ever did raise this question btw, though I witnessed others I assisted in the interviews doing so).
Whenever I was asked the question I was pretty much flummoxed and couldn't come up with a decent answer. Maybe I said something like "I wished to do well in my job", but I'm sure I never demonstrated much ambition, if any, (nor very convincingly), and yet I suppose I was being truthful in describing my relatively limited ambitions, (and you could ask, "Well who doesn't wish to do well in their jobs" couldn't you).
If asked today what my ambitions are, or might be, the only truthful answer would be to be able to give is "To do pretty much what I want/like in life, without being told what to do"!
How many married men can say they're so lucky as to have achieved this aim, (and I'm far from it in my own life due to circumstances outside my control)?
