May you never have to buy a hat
Giving a bad interview, it turns out, is a lot like getting a bad haircut: you spend about a week trying to avoid it as a topic of conversation, and when someone mentions it, you preemptively degrade it, secretly hoping they’ll tell you it’s “not so bad;” that in fact having sideburns of unequal length and no hair at all on the sides of your head makes you look dangerous and handsome. Then someone will inevitably dismiss conversational etiquette and agree that, yep, you sure did get one godawful haircut. The next day you buy a hat.
- Jay Pinkerton, comedy writer and editor of Cracked magazine
from his blog piece My Bad Interview, written in the wake of giving a… bad interview
Posted: December 17th, 2006 under Quotes about Interviews.