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what would you think if...
| Sat, 06-25-2005 - 11:13am |
The first question a guy you're meeting with for the first time, asks you if you were to get another job somewhere, what would it be and where? That sounds like a job interview to me, not a date or meet, whatever you want to call it. This happened to me. He previously asked me this when we were chatting online and then again when we met. I didn't really have an answer right away. I wasn't really expecting a job interview. We didn't see each other after this for other reasons but it just seemed odd to me.

I don't think it's odd at all -- in fact, I'm almost always asked this in the form of "if you didn't have to worry about money, what would be your dream job?"
Your answer is full of insight.... into your aspirations, what you think is important and what you are passionate about. It can also reflect how ambitious and imaginative you are -- it's a simple question that gives the asker a lot of information about you.
Tracy
I agree wwith JK, I don't like those kinds of questions either. I would rather keep it simple at a first meet and wouldn't ask something that I think might make the other person uncomfortable. First meets are nerve racking enough without worrying about that stuff also!
Sunshine
So if they ask you these types of questions.....would that person be placed in the "next" category?
CL-Truewild1969
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Personally, I never cared for questions like that, either.
I agree that these ones can be annoying! I met this one guy and conversation was a little stiff (just not much in common - thanks eHarmony and your 29 "compatibility factors"!). At one point, he even said something like "Well, I guess that is all the questions from my list." I was like, "HUH? Your list?" :-) It did feel like an interview.
But I agree that we shouldn't dismiss someone because they have a different style of getting to know someone. Maybe they are nervous and just don't know how to get started. I have had times where the conversation just seemed to flow and we talk about everything under the sun and then they'd ghost on me or we'd meet and there was no chemistry. So just because it is "interview-like" doesn't automatically mean it will be bad.