Sunday, May 16, 2010
A Labeled Viking Ship
Arc The nightmare of the job interview
One of my recurring dreams is a nightmare and has to do with a job interview and the film Bienvenido Mister Marshall.
French manicure, perfect shirt, high heels, I stand at the scheduled time in the office in question. They took me to an office where expected. Carefully I glance at a magazine interesting, then I will not remember. I walked around the table and look out the window. Minutes later I'm sitting in front of it could be my future boss. After a discreet smile. function begins. In theory I have nothing to worry, the questions will be relevant and predictable. It's a situation I've lived before and the experience should help. However, from that moment, I begin to listen and hear in a language incomprehensible.
In the film, almost everyone in the Castilian town of Villar del Río want to make a good impression on the impending visit of the U.S. Marshall Plan and, thus, receive part de la generosa ayuda económica que el gobierno de Estados Unidos proporcionará, en los cincuenta, a la pobre Europa de postguerra. A pesar de que se han puesto en marcha los preparativos para sorprender a los extranjeros con un espectáculo y la situación parece controlada, al alcalde de Villar del Río lo traicionan los nervios en un sueño. La historia surrealista se desarrolla en un saloon del lejano oeste y los personajes, entre ellos el propio alcalde, hablan en un idioma que debería ser inglés but, in practice, is deeply unknown and pidgin.
I hope the nerves do not have betrayed me last time in Madrid, wanting to make a good impression indeed. If so, do not want to imagine what will become of me next time, when the interview has to be in London and in English.
I hope the nerves do not have betrayed me last time in Madrid, wanting to make a good impression indeed. If so, do not want to imagine what will become of me next time, when the interview has to be in London and in English.
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