Fresh out of Uni
I went looking for a job and quickly began to regret my decision to leave my job as a undegreed technician to go into further education because jobs were rarer than Ringofire's entertaining QOTW answers. Mostly I didn't even get a reply.

Then a got an interview. Cut off my long hair and dusted off my hardly worn suit and off I went to Bristol University Dept of Biochemistry.

The only interviews I had up to this point (two sucsesful ones for my pregraduate work) had been one on one, then tour around the department being introduced to other people in the group who also ask some more questions. This one was a panel of 6 behind a big fuck off desk with a tiny chair in front of them. The 6 bastards were glaring at me(or so I thought) as I sat nervously on the little chair.

One of them decided to open with an easy question to ease me into it

"Did you study any Biochemistry on your course?"
"yes it was one of my favourite subjects" I lied
"which area did you particularly like?"
At this point my brain went on holiday, I couldn't think of a single thing about biochemistry

internal dialogue...
come on come on ...biochem topic?......pathways!..what pathways? it's all pathways that's no bloody good think of something specific....pathways?...no not just bloody pathways a actual pathway.......pathways? gah for gods sake pick a favourite pathway any bloody pathway....pathways?

Every time I felt like I could grasp a name of a pathway my brain stopped and thought that single word pathways. 10 mins later I could have drawn a detailed diagram of the formation & breakdown of haemoglobin, The Krebs cycle and a fair few others. But at that moment I felt like I had just done a bucket bong.

It felt like an hour had passed as I sat there gaping like a recently landed carp. I said ummmm a few time but that wasn't really helping.

Thankfully at this point one of them told me not to worry and relax and we got on with the rest of the interview. It was such a relief not to be stuck in my own private 'pathway loop' I didn't do too badly. Didn't get the job (they said I was second choice but I bet they say that to all the applicants) but the work looked shit once I was shown round TBH so lucky break there
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Thu 21 Nov 2013, 16:54, Reply)