Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
This is one of those questions that gets asked at interviews1. I’m not quite sure what the correct corporate answer is. I know there are several wrong answers: “laughing hysterically on a pile of my dead enemies”; “In your chair”; “In a job where I’m not asked stupid bloody questions”. Any of these answers would result in the swift termination of the interview.
Luckily I’ve never been asked that. There’s two things to say about this question for me: first of all in 10 years time I’ll be getting close to the age when I can collect a state pension in the UK. So as long as I’m still healthy and compos mentis2, I’ll be fine with that.
Secondly, today I started a new job. It’s part-time, at the local sixth form college, and they weren’t damn fool enough to ask where I saw myself in ten years time.
Whether I’ll still be doing this in 10 years time I don’t know, I’ve only done one day. It depends really on how well the Heath Way Prints business – or any of the other business ideas I have – go.
- Along with “Why do you want to work at (this place)? When I interviewed as night-shift staff at a local supermarket, I came up with some spectacular bullshit. The real answer – I need the money – wouldn’t have worked. ↩︎
- Or compost mental. ↩︎
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