caring about your future is cool and all but not nearly as funny in retrospect
I was just thinking about some things I said in situations where I was looking for a job. I’m pretty amused (and proud) of a couple of the things I said.
1. To an Autodesk (makers of AutoCad) representative at the MIT job fair:
So why doesn’t MIT use or teach AutoCad?
2. To an engineer at NASA – Ames interviewing me about a environment-surveying robot that used a parachute with a grappling hook to land on and drag itself up a hillside.
I can’t understand why you would want to solve the problem that way.
Needless to say, I didn’t get either job.
(I’m not actually that irreverent in general but sometimes I just get in a mood, I guess.)
(I should also note that I think both things are fair statements, even in retrospect.)