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Tuesday, June 20, 2006

A future career in... potatoes?

I have a job interview tomorrow but I am not terribly enthusiastic about it. The role is for a general office admin person for... the British Potato Council. Yup, the British Potato Council.

The job would involve taking care of all the filing and data entry stuff, ordering the stationary and making sure there are enough biscuits to go around at meetings. Riveting. The money isn't up to much either. So why am I bothering with to go to the interview? I've just signed up to a new recruitment agency (another one!) and I had to show willing when they offered to put me forward for the job. Plus, it has been a while since I had any interviews and I need the practice.

So, I have to appear to be making the effort during the interview but also manage to dissuade them from offering me the job. I'll angle for the "he's over-qualified and would be bored in this role" response. Despite being a temp at the Council, I have been there so long that I have accumulated a lot of valuable knowledge and taken on a great deal of responsibility. Also, the person they hired to do the job I was covering turned out to be shockingly inept and they got rid of them; if they had let me go as originally planned they would now be right in the shit. I've become valuable. Ergo, I am setting my sights a little higher than 'admin dogsbody'... but not much.

Besides, how could I look anyone in the eye as I tell them I work for the British Potato Council? I'm sure they do sterling work in pushing the humble spud as the dynamic root vegetable of choice for the 21st Century but it's not exactly cool, is it: "Hey baby, I work for the British Potato Council. Wanna' come back to my place?" Yeah, real smooth.