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Kajjie
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12 Mar 2009, 11:23 am

I have quite a lot of trouble giving people directions. I can't follow directions easily either. And I can't instinctively tell left from right (although I've recently learnt this is incredibly common)

I don't have trouble giving my opinion, I just have trouble doing it politely.

marshall - Yes, I was asked that question in a university interveiw. It is a stupid, and pointless question. I'm fine with "What are your plans for the future?" because it's not got a time limit and it's not so concrete. I always think "I could be hit by a bus tomorrow for all I know, why do you expect me to have a clear idea of what I'll be doing 6 years from now?"



ASS-P
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12 Mar 2009, 1:23 pm

ASS-P wrote:
marshall wrote:
Oh. By the way.

Has anyone else here ever been asked something like "where do you see yourself 8 years from now"? I think I'd nominate that as the worst question ever invented. Someone asked me this once and I felt like...

"umm... damn... I don't know... how the heck should I know?".

Instant headache. Honestly, I just don't ever think like that. Am I the only one?






...It's not , precisely , that I was wishing myself dead...But being pessimistic , projecting internally the worst/least optimistic things folks say to me , imagining thing will not " get better ":-(...



Amicitia
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12 Mar 2009, 2:54 pm

Nope, can't give directions. I can see the route in my head, but there are never any useful names on the map, so I can't convey it to other people. And sometimes the maps themselves aren't in a useful format. Frequently I would be walking around my college campus and people in cars would stop and ask how to get to a building. The campus wasn't big and I certainly knew it well enough, but I thought of it in terms of walking paths and always forgot that some of the paths were actually roads. So I would just stand there, trying to work out how to drive to the building in question, and probably looking pretty clueless.

As for the "eight years from now" question... If they're asking where I will be in eight years, then I don't know. And if they're asking where I want to be in eight years, then I don't know that either. Anyway, why should life be linear?