So if you had on your resume …

A friend of mine asks everybody he meets what high school they went to. Everybody went to high school and it kinda establishes your hometown, or at least where you grew up. It gets the conversation going. He has a ton of friends.

 

Very St. Louis - the crowning importance of where one went to high school.

 

Why kindergarten, though? What a strange interview question.

 

They get you off your game early. They control the interview.

 

Linden Elementary, Oak Ridge, Tenn. First day of school, I see a mom taking her kid in, and the kid was bawling. "What's wrong with that weirdo?" I thought. Moved to a brand new building two years later when I was in second grade (1968). Open floorplan, new furniture, everything carpeted.

I would own that interview.

 

Meadows Elementary, Valencia, Calif.

I still would have rather been asked why the Scott Mitchell era failed in Detroit.

 

The top of the thread made me laugh when I read "Mrs. Doug" as "Mrs. Dong."

Loved BR5-49. Probably the "coolest" concert t-shirt I own.

 

I had four different kindergarten teachers. That would be a helluva interview.

 

I had four different guidance counselors in high school. First one got fired after sophomore year for getting busted for drugs (hard stuff, too). We had two come and go junior year before our AD, who'd been a guidance counselor before becoming AD, took over senior year.

 

After my six-week stint playing Santa Claus on the Polar Express train ride, I added "Updated naughty and nice list after each trip" to either my resume or cover letter.