for my company’s employee of the year award. I looked down the list of questions, which included several personal questions:
1. What do you do in your spare time?
2. Do you have any church or community affiliations?
3. Have you won any awards or commendations?
4. What are your personal goals?
Part of me wanted to say, “Can you please just take my name off the list?” I didn’t want to answer any of these questions. But that would be rude.
I went to meet with the VP of Marketing. Sweet woman, probably around my age, and very friendly. She interviewed several people who had been nominated. We all had this set of questions to answer, along with several work-related or company-related questions.
She asked me about my contribution to my team. I mentioned something about communication and documentation and being team-oriented.
She said..
“One thing I’ve noticed about you is that you’re always on an even keel. It doesn’t matter what’s going on.. you could be really frazzled inside, for all I know, but you never show it. You just float gracefully along.”
You can’t beat that.
I remember a couple of years ago when I never thought I would find a better job than the one I had. I laugh at that now.
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