Rule #28

I didn't get the job. I told them my dreams, but failed to mention how I would follow them.

Most people when starting out don't know how to lie about what they really want to do. They just go right ahead and say it. Lay it out there on the table for everyone to gawk at. As if it might actually happen.

But I found that rule #28 in my new finding a job ..RULES.

Never EVER be so candid as to tell them what your hopes and dreams are. God forbid if they think that is what you ACTUALLY want to DO. and not actually this job you are applying for.

I know you can't jump from a lily pad to the top of the tree.

I am just saying at what point do you say............."I will do ANYTHING in this business as long as there is some slight chance..and I mean slight like Simon Cowell's 'celebrity duets' surviving one season..slight chance that it will get me to where I need to be."

If you are applying for a job, is it completely asinine to say...I will do "this" to get "here" or I will do "that" to get "there?"

It shouldn't be.

Employers don't actually think that you are going to stay in the mail room forever.

Do they want you to say (and I hate to quote for my old children's book collection, but I will) "I WANT THIS, I NEED THIS, I HAVE TO HAVE THIS."

But in the back of your head there is some ulterior motive. You don't really HAVE to have this, but you'll take it just to be in the business.

I mean, are they really in the business of making dreams come true? Are they suddenly the MADE coaches for MTV? Are they waiting for that special candidate that THIS is their dream.

Do the candidates say that in the interview?

"Oh god this is my dream!"

......

Maybe that's where I have gone wrong.

I haven't been in that interview yet.