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Corporate crash out? 
Will you cash in or crash out? 

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Oh man, I love a good interview.
Share with me your best and 

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worst interview experiences. 
I really haven't had any 

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interviews go completely wrong. 
I had one guy interview me once,

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it was a little awkward and AT 
shirt and he had like a 

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Chick-fil-A cup and he was like,
sorry, I'm on PTO today, but I 

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was really excited about your 
resume, so I wanted to take your

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interview. 
And I thought that was like 

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really endearing. 
Like it felt really real. 

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Yeah. 
But I haven't had any interviews

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go like extremely bad. 
Like I've never had someone hit 

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me with a really hard question 
and be like, what the fuck? 

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But I know that happened. 
So I think I'm just like tunnel 

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vision over here, but I know 
that. 

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I think my least. 
Favorite questions are questions

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where it's like too vague. 
Like it's like, tell me about a 

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time you worked with the team 
and what did you do to help the 

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team succeed? 
It's like, what the fuck do you 

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want me to say? 
I really, really hate those. 

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And I think that just shows like
an underprepared company, to be 

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honest. 
Like I've only had people ask me

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that when it's just not a great 
company or it's an HR person 

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that doesn't really know what 
else to ask me. 

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I think that's like, and then 
you have to do the store. 

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What is it? 
The star stories or whatever, 

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which I think a waste of time. 
I just want to talk about 

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actual, real things and not just
like make up a story to tell you

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just because you asked me for 
it. 

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But Claire, it's interesting 
that you haven't had any really 

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bad interviews because I 
definitely have for an interview

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for an internship. 
I actually got my interviewer, 

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who ended up being my boss was 
15 minutes late to the interview

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and I had to like e-mail him and
the HR person and be like, oh, 

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like, let me know where are you?
And then he was like, oh, sorry,

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I forgot. 
And then he was like just asking

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me questions for like like 2 
questions and then asked me what

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else I have. 
And then I don't know, it worked

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out. 
So, you know, But yeah, I've had

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interviews where they schedule 
it and nobody shows up and then 

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I reach back out to the 
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and then they never respond 
again. 

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I've had that happen. 
I've had interviews where it's 

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like a random company like 
CarMax, sorry to drop CarMax, 

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but they made me do this HR 
interview. 

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I did that. 
Then I did like another 

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interview and then they wanted 
me to do a super day for CarMax.

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And I was like, what? 
And so I was sitting there for 

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three hours doing like cases and
it was just the worst thing 

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ever. 
I anyways, but yeah, I've had 

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some really bad ones where it's 
a pretty technical job. 

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I would say some credit card 
companies, if it's really 

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technical, they which sometimes 
you can't really tell from the 

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job description, but they'll ask
you like all these in depth 

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stats, like stats questions. 
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was just like, I don't know, I 
don't know, I don't know. 

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And then, you know, you keep 
moving on. 

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And some of my friends who are 
in kind of like a more tech 

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space also have that experience 
as well. 

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Like if you're in data science 
or data analytics, you're not 

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going to know everything. 
And they don't expect you to 

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know everything too. 
That's the other thing. 

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Like they just want to see what 
you do know and what interests 

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you have and what kind of areas 
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about. 
And that's kind of what they're 

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assessing for. 
But I have had that where I was 

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like about to cry because I 
didn't know anything they were 

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asking. 
Me, Oh my gosh, you know what I 

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actually have done which is like
AI. 

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Think one of the weirder 
interview esque experiences I've

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had is have you taken the 
Procter and Gamble assessment? 

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Yes, that was awful. 
Literally no. 

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I was pissed. 
Everyone was bitching about it 

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and I was like I'm going to go 
take this test. 

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And then I never even found out 
if I passed or not because 

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before I got my like score back 
there like the position had 

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closed that I applied for. 
I don't even know what my score 

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was, but no you, just you. 
Either pass or fail, and then if

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you fail you can only take it 
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I don't understand the point of 
it because I've heard some 

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people actually look up how to 
take it and what kind of person 

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they're looking for 'cause it's,
I think it's part of, it's a 

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personality test, right? 
And also the consulting 

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companies do that too, which 
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Oh, this brings me to McKenzie. 
So maybe they've retired this, I

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don't know. 
I honestly don't understand why 

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they put this much effort into 
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But two years ago and me and 
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guess applied to McKenzie and 
their rounds before you could 

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interview with them was this 
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And the case was you're in a 
rainforest, no joke. 

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And there's like 3. 
No, no, I'm not even this is 

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even the worst part. 
They literally have like a whole

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intro. 
I don't know who designed this, 

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but it seemed like an actual 
video game. 

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You go through the rainforest 
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animals to put together in a 
Biome and you need like 2 

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plants. 
I've done this. 

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I was like, oh, that was so fun.
That was so much fun. 

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I liked that one. 
It was a waste of time. 

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Sorry. 
It took me hours to do because 

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it was like, oh, which one? 
If this is 76°, this plant needs

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to be in and the altitude for 
this animal is 700 plus and then

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you had to do that and it I 
don't know, it was just. 

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But yeah, I did take this one 
where you had to like make like 

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a microbiome or some shit, and 
it was like a simulation. 

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Is that what you're talking? 
About yes and they don't tell 

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you if you did well or not score
attributed to it. 

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So you don't know like how to do
the next one, which I think is 

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just annoying. 
I think the issue I have with 

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all of this, I'm starting to 
realize is that there's no 

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feedback. 
Because I think part of me is 

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that I can learn something and I
might not know it straight away,

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but I will make an effort to 
learn and change what I'm doing 

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in accordance with what you want
as a business. 

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And I think the part of 
interviewing when there's no 

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feedback or cases when there's 
no feedback is kind of 

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frustrating to me. 
No, I get that because it's 

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like, who the fuck cares if I 
can figure it out on the first 

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try? 
Like, you're never going to 

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always figure out your job on 
the first try, so wouldn't you 

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rather have someone who's going 
to learn than someone who's just

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coming in at one level and going
to stay stagnant? 

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Exactly. 
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that if there's some companies 
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cases, they make it really hard.
So that way you they kind of, 

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it's like a test of endurance to
see how long you'll keep trying 

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to figure it out more than it is
to will you get the right 

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answer. 
Like I've had some of those 

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cases before. 
But yeah, that's something that 

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always bothered me about some of
the consulting ones is that I 

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give them an answer and they 
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And I'm like, OK, so like, let's
have a conversation. 

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What do you think about that? 
I want to, like, work with you 

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because clearly in this job, I'm
going to have to work with other

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people. 
I don't want you to just say OK 

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and move on. 
Like I want to hear your 

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thoughts and opinions so I can 
help, like tailor that. 

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And I've had some really good 
cases where people do give me 

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their opinions and we kind of 
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conclusion. 
And I think that's a lot better 

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because you can kind of see what
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if they're like, oh, it's my way
or the highway or if they're 

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willing to work with you in 
compromise or also kind of that 

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aspect. 
But anyways, that's my rant. 

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Yeah, I've never actually done 
like I, I've never actually done

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a case interview, but I'm 
getting kind of, I'm getting 

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kind of tired of like companies 
having more than like 3 rounds 

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of interviews for entry level 
jobs. 

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Like, yeah, I'm sorry. 
It makes sense for some upper 

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level jobs that you might have 
to do a little more probing, but

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if you can't figure out if you 
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meeting them once or twice, then
I have more concerns about that 

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company than anything else. 
I hate the ones that I think 

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it's also just that maybe they 
get so much of volume and so 

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they keep doing, you know, ones 
like, but I've had ones where I 

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have to do a higher view, OK, 
after the higher view. 

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If you pass that, then you get 
to do a case and the case is not

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someone casing you. 
It's just an online case and 

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then you do that and then if you
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with an HR person. 
And if you pass the HR person 

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one, then you can talk to 
another person. 

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Then once you pass that, you can
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And it actually just makes me 
crazy. 

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But I know investment banking is
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Like you have to jump through 
hoops to be able to get it. 

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And I don't know if that's just 
to see how committed you are. 

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I'm really not sure but. 
Yeah, I'm convinced it's all for

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show. 
I'm convinced it's all for show.

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And then once they get there, 
they just kind of drink slushies

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and play ping pong all day. 
Yeah, I play ping pong a lot. 

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My work actually. 
Now they have ping pong tables 

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on every floor. 
Every other floor I remember one

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of my accounting internships and
like obviously accounting. 

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So based on billable hours but I
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of the consultants would be in 
the break room just like ripping

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up the ping pong table drinking 
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made me. 
Sad what I thought. 

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They have billable hours too, So
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Are they? 
I mean, yeah, but it's like way 

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more LAX, you know, accountants 
are uptight. 

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I feel like for mine it was the 
opposite. 

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I did an internship once and it 
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and it was kind of stressful 
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Like you have to do all these 
trainings to be in compliance. 

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But then it was also like 90% of
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And if you're with like below 
that threshold, then you get an 

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e-mail and say that, you know, 
you have to really bill. 

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And then I feel bad for billing 
people if I'm not 100% 

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productive in that hour. 
And then I just get Katie and 

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Katie. 
Welcome to my everyday life. 

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I'm not entered, I do everyday. 
Yeah, I that's, I think I 

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wouldn't do well in consulting 
and accounting just because of 

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that. 
Not even because of the work or 

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anything. 
I just, I feel so bad if I bill 

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stuff. 
And in consulting this is such a

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problem because you can only 
bill so many hours and then you 

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have so much work you have to 
do. 

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And if you don't get the work 
done, but you got the hours 

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done, then people get mad at you
because now you have to go over 

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hours. 
But if you not the hours done, 

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if you got the work done but 
didn't get the hours, then 

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they're like, well, now we're 
under billing the client. 

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So you just have to like do 
something. 

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It's just such a game. 
And I really am not down. 

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Yeah. 
And that's why there's this 

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whole like argument versus fixed
fee structures and billable hour

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structures with consulting and 
accounting projects and people 

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will go back and forth on which 
one will make the most money and

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which is better, but. 
I used to work on those deals. 

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Like deciding whether you're 
going to do fixed fees or 

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hourly. 
Yeah. 

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And I would have to do like the 
finance, the financing behind it

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and figure out, you know, how 
many man hours it would take and

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OK, are we going to pay this in 
six years? 

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You get, I mean, like, how many 
days to pay and all that. 

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Like math financially for those 
like really big, like deals 

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above $60 million. 
I did that last summer. 

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Fun, Yeah. 
So what do you think? 

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Hourly or fixed? 
Fixed fee. 

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Honestly, I think this is kind 
of with the salespeople and it 

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just, I don't know, it's such a 
difficult space to work in. 

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But if that's what you want to 
do, it's like can be really 

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interesting because it's like a 
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when you get to more of a 
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over hours. 
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the client and be like, well, 
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money. 
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one, but you know, you were 
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internally and then you need 
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I mean, both cause problems. 
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But I think you're just a gamble
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billable hours. 
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if like AI is doing 20% of the 
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now, well, if we bill less 
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get paid the same? 
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like billable per ratio to look 
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companies that are also 
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And then I don't know if it's 
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applications. 
Anything else you want to add? 

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Yeah, so have you ever gotten a 
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Cuz I have. 
This is what I was saying. 

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Why have I had the most chill 
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Maybe it's just like accounting,
but I don't really think I've 

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had a really weird question. 
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interviews I've had have just 
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get to know me, what I'm 
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experiences were. 
So Katie, Katie, sorry I'm so 

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LAX on this topic, but please do
share your weird ass interview 

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questions. 
And if you're listening and you 

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have a weird ass interview 
question, drop it in the form. 

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Some of mine have been so stupid
and it's clearly like pulled 

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from a list company. 
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really big ones, is if someone's
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you a list of all these 
questions you can't ask them and

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then you pick some. 
One of mine was is if you woke 

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up to 5000 emails and could only
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ones would you choose to respond
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Which is never going to happen 
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And why would I be getting 5000 
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I don't know. 
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sort them by priority based on 
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on this week and then answer 
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to the rest later in the week. 
And that's all I had to say. 

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I mean, what else were you 
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I'm going to. 
I would say, I would say, I hope

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I don't get 5000 emails because 
then I'm going to throw my 

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computer out the window. 
Maybe I might just. 

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Laugh. 
Yeah. 

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Then you laugh, and then they're
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then you get the job. 
Boom. 

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Yeah, Claire, I've also had ones
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there's a natural disaster in 
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How are you going to evacuate 
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disaster? 
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fire, you know, it's a little 
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really move in the direction of 
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transportation first and shut 
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the natural disaster. 
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that all the Google Maps and try
and I don't know, everything 

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else was triangulated correctly 
so people could get out. 

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But it was actually really 
interesting. 

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But anyways. 
That's weird as fuck and I'm 

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sorry that you had to endure 
that. 

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That's like honestly though, if 
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would love to like give a weird 
question like that and then 

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laugh about it and be like, you 
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Didn't. 
You but yeah, so you know, 

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you're going to get some weird 
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OK. 
Just ask weird questions back. 

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OK, wait, Katie. 
This brings us, like, really 

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full circle, though, about 
ending an interview. 

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It's like, you should ask them 
questions. 

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I feel like the worst thing you 
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table from that person to be 
like, no, I have no questions. 

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Yeah. 
I agree. 

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I always walk in with like 5 
questions I'm going to ask them 

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because it's and also just like 
psychologically people like 

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talking about themselves and 
their company so it's going to 

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make them like you more. 
Yeah, I agree with that 100%. 

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I think when we were talking 
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one thing we forgot to put on 
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But Claire and I do come in with
questions ready just in case, 

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and I think it's really great 
just to have something written 

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down because sometimes I'm like,
fuck, I don't have a. 

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You kind of get to that point. 
You went through the whole 

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interview, you're kind of fried 
at the end and you're like, I 

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can't think of anything. 
Then you can just read it. 

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But I think some good questions 
I usually ask where you know, 

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obviously this is where links in
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Like make sure you understand 
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company. 
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company for 10 years, ask them 
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Was it the culture? 
Was it the work? 

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Was it the work life balance? 
What was it? 

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Or if you want to go more, I 
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what specific projects they're 
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expanded their skill set. 
Or sometimes I ask people, you 

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know, list one thing you learned
this week because I'm really 

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interested in environments that 
I consistently can learn in. 

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And so I just want to know like 
what people are learning. 

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I don't know. 
I usually, I'm usually a little 

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more chill on that, but I've 
definitely like stumped some 

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interviewers. 
They like weren't expecting 

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questions, but like I'll also be
like really specific, especially

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if it's for a full time job, 
I'll like I'll ask very pointed 

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questions about the company. 
But and it's also like the time 

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to get any clarity on the 
position that you might not 

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already have from the job 
listing. 

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And obviously from them asking 
you questions is not going to 

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give you as much clarity about 
the role. 

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So I think this is a super 
important time to ask very role 

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specific questions. 
Yeah, I agree. 

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And like kind of, I forget if 
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people won't know the role 
specific questions. 

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So if you do have questions, you
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interviews like Claire said. 
Oh, yeah, I'm definitely 

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thinking like later interview 
here, like final interview, 

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final decision, but but but also
like don't take 30 minutes 

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asking them questions because 
that's excessive. 

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You know, have three to five 
really good questions. 

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Yeah. 
So again, yeah, be conscious of 

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their time. 
That's also a big thing as well.

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just be like, hey, I know we're 

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coming up on time. 
Do you have time for another 

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question? 
If not, that's OK or something 

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like that too. 
But I think one of the other 

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things is for kind of larger 
companies that do read from an 

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internship question list or 
interview question list, you can

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go to Glassdoor and look at the 
corporate page of the company 

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and then type in what position 
you're applying for and then 

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look through the interview 
questions for that specific job.

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I've done that before and a lot 
of them are pretty accurate and 

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it just allows you to like 
prepare a little bit ahead of 

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time, which is really nice. 
And yeah, I think that I found 

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to be super, super helpful 100%.
Also, some schools have a portal

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that you can look through if 
previous people applied to the 

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internship and you can see what 
questions they were asked or how

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much money they got as well, 
which might be useful for you 

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guys. 
I know our school has one and 

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I've used that multiple times. 
Yes, ma'am. 

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The other thing too is for like 
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If you're struggling to figure 

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out where to apply, you can also
ask the Career Center at your 

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school to send you like a list 
of where people applied 

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sophomore and junior year and 
like what internships they 

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accepted. 
They'll usually have a list and 

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then you can apply to those as 
well. 

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That actually worked really well
for me for my junior year 

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internship, I met with my career
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our school and she actually 
recommended a company to me 

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where she knew a partner and was
like a really close friend with 

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a partner. 
And she's like your guys's 

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values are like so In Sync and 
like you guys would get along 

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really well. 
And so she ended up so I ended 

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up applying for that job and 
saying like she gave me like a 

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reference. 
So I think that that's a really 

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great resource so that they 
might know somewhere where you 

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would fit in well. 
So don't discount asking around 

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where you should apply. 
Don't just go online blind. 

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Yeah, I agree. 
And then this kind of leads me 

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to the last thing I wanted to 
touch on is how to answer some 

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of these like weird questions 
like what is your biggest 

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weakness, Claire? 
How would you answer that 

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question? 
You're supposed to. 

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I've read that you're supposed 
to answer it and then say how 

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you combat it. 
Like I would say my biggest 

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weakness is that sometimes I'm a
little unorganized. 

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So what I like to do is every 
morning write down everything 

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that I need to get done in the 
day and in prioritized order or 

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something like that. 
Yeah, exactly. 

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So I think that was one of the 
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first. 
But I think, you know, our 

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school told us you just want to 
say how you're improving. 

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That's all anyone can ever ask 
for. 

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No one is asking you to be 
perfect. 

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But I think it's just showing 
effort that you're willing to 

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improve and try different things
to better yourself. 

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And that's all that question is 
really trying to get at. 

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So I just wanted to bring that 
up too, because I know that's a 

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really common one. 
Absolutely. 

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Don't just be like, I'm always 
late and then like, no. 

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But yeah, also some places drug 
tests. 

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You all probably know this by 
now. 

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I've been so scared of getting 
drug tested my whole life and no

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job has ever drug tested me and 
I just want to see drug. 

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Tested Claire. 
What if someone like I've seen 

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like, OK, I like poppy seed 
dressing. 

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Like what if people think I like
do meth? 

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No, I freaked out once because I
literally ate a poppy seed 

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muffin right before my drug test
and I totally forgot about it. 

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So, but it was fine. 
I think there's certain levels 

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that, you know, they go 
underneath. 

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I think it's really only 
sensitive for I think military 

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people and then they do kind of 
our lot. 

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Those tests are more sensitive 
to it, but I think for just 

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corporate they have certain 
levels and thresholds they need 

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to be. 
Also, like a lot of very common 

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drugs like flag your test, like 
for example Adderall flags your 

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drug test. 
So you know, I've never been 

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drug tested for a job, but I'm 
just always scared like what if 

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something slipped in there I 
didn't know about it. 

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Like I don't do drugs, but what 
if? 

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In there. 
Like what if a Molly just 

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slipped in there? 
What if a couple? 

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What if a couple syringes just 
shut up, you know? 

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MTMAI don't know. 
Like what if I'm like, what if I

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fail? 
But yeah, and then you can also 

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just tell like the drug test 
person or tell your, I don't 

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know if you have to tell your 
company, but the drug test 

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person should just be like, hey,
by the way, I'm on this 

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medication. 
If that's going to interfere 

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with the test, just please write
a note so they know. 

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And then I feel like, well. 
I mean shit, if something came 

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across my desk that one of the 
interns was doing drugs, like if

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I got 1 and I was, I would just 
giggle. 

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You know, like who actually is 
looking at this stuff? 

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I don't know, but I know I think
it's probably for health 

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insurance too, is part of it. 
I'm God. 

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They're like, yeah, I don't know
if they get paid a little bit 

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more, like they get better value
out of it because they know 

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they're not like, you know, 
treating anyone who's on 

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anything hard. 
But anyways, I think that might 

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also be an issue. 
I don't know. 

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But yeah, stay safe. 
Don't do drugs. 

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Get a job and don't do drugs. 
That's the moral of today's 

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episode. 
So 1 before your drug test. 

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Yeah, did I tell? 
You, how you see it, have to get

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drug tested at school. 
Yeah, you've told me. 

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This right here. 
That's so mean. 

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I know. 
And my sister was on Adderall 

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too, so my mom had to like, 
bring the little prescription 

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pill and then be like, look, 
this is what she's on. 

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I have the prescription. 
And they'd be like, OK, like 

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take notes and we'd have to send
our hair to the lab. 

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It was kind of excessive, but 
whatever, girl. 

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We wouldn't have a sports team 
at my school if, oh, I'm just 

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kidding, kind. 
Of OK, thank you guys for 

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listening so much. 
This episode I know is a little 

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content heavy this time, but 
yeah, we really appreciate you 

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guys. 
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anything you guys have questions
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Slay, see you all next time. 
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