Staples and Pins

I have been unemployed for sometime now,by unemployed I do not mean unoccupied. Occupied with real questions and surreal answers. When I attended my first real interview,I thought I was being real smart when I answered the panels question on where I see myself in the next 5 years. What a STUPID QUESTION??? I do not know where I would be this weekend, or if my dream job was to tell people that if they do not make that 834 rs payment immediately their account would go to the 2nd bucket after which the 3rd till the 7th. That I wished to join 1800 other people speaking in an accent that could put an three year old learning english to shame. Every interview had a similar question..different styles of course. 1. What is your long term goal? 2. Why this opportunity? 3. Where do you see yourself in the next..? 4. our resume is quite interesting, but how do you see suiting this option? 5. People say that maverics are dangerous, but you seem to have a plan...can we know? 6. Career Goal? 7. Why p...

Why? I know of an 82 year old grandma...Sweet lady. Chatted up with her for a while till she told me about how she came to mumbai, The war broke in Burma when she was a lil shy of 12, the japanese were cruel to a whole lot of her relatives. She escaped to Goa- then under the portuguese with nothing at all...just the family. Earlier educated in cambridge, she was at a loss when she joined a school here in India. Had to learn portuguese and in her stylish anglais she says.."It was all rubbish..what english do they speak"the ship she escaped in had all the lights painted in tar...she still remembers the journey,in darkness and hunger and thirst and fear. I was quite a looker then Girl she grins and adds with a wink, never got to go to a college...I had 7 boyfriends...all great catches....But my mother she got me married to this guy who had his own house. Her face changed "He was a beast, drunkard a total bugger I say" would try every trick in the book to have his way. ...