bus driver: how many busses do you keep at home? what's your favorite bus? how many mass-transit related companies have you started?
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if other professions interviewed like some of the worst parts of the tech industry: doctor: so, uh, how much medicine do you do in your free time? are you hacking on any operations at home? librarian: talk to us about the organization/cataloging strategies you use at home
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retail: how many cookies did you sell when you were a girl scout? do you spend your free time thinking about how to improve the retail experience? how old were you when you got your first toy cash register? do you still have a lemonade stand?
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elementary school teacher: how do you show your passion for teaching outside of school? do you also teach community college? what's your youtube explainer channel? you also volunteer at a museum, right?
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retail, again: show us how you orient your entire life around selling things. can you tell us about how you upsold a roomate? what life insurance policies are you also selling at the moment, and what commission did you negotiate?
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retail pharmacist: how many of your friends have you sold pharmaceuticals to? what refrigeration techniques do you use at home? have you invented any novel new compounding methods? show on this whiteboard how you've thought about improving our inventory.
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doctor, again: how many drugs have you designed in your spare time? what clinical trials are you running from your home? are there any medical devices you've patented outside of work recently? roughly how many people do you perform medicine on outside of work each month?
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food service/hospitality: what cafe/restaurant/food cart are you independently operating in your spare time? outside of work, how much do you earn in tips for your hobbies? how quickly are tables cleared in your apartment?
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housekeeper: what's the last thing you cleaned outside of work? what are your favorite strategies for keeping things clean? what podcasts about cleaning products do you listen to? what's the best ted talk about doing laundry?
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orchestra cellist*: what do you mean you only play one instrument? what's the most recent instrument you've learned? how many symphonies have you composed? whiteboard how to make a saxophone from raw materials. * arts/performing arts based ones don't quite work as well
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dentist: SHOW US YOUR HOBBY TOOTH COLLECTION, have you invented any dental appliances at home, what's your favorite improvised tooth extraction device, why do you just do teeth have you not experimented with other parts of the body, what orthopedics have you done
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radiologist: how many natural x-ray sources have you collected, what artificial x-ray sources have you constructed, how old were you when you got your first light box, how many unlicensed NMR/MRI machines do you own
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obgyn*: we've found the best obgyns are self-taught, so tell us how you learned * I said I wouldn't do this one but I figured it out
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"law enforcement officer"*: what techniques do you use to racially profile people in your spare time? at home and/or with friends, how do you consistently escalate interactions into potentially lethal situations? tell us about all the guns you own * yeah, not this one either
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coal miner: you just can't stop digging stuff up. you love digging stuff up. what else have you dug up? bodies? pipes? tell us how you'd do large-scale resource extraction in (starts stopwatch) thirty seconds.
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rocket scientist: WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY BEEN TO LOW EARTH ORBIT IT'S ONLY A TWO DAY DRIVE AWAY WHAT ARE YOU SPENDING YOUR FREE TIME ON
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