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Compared to Others, How well do you answer questions?

What is the real question here?

So, I’ve been job hunting since May. It is tough. I really hate looking for jobs more than anything else. It is such a hassle to fill out the same stuff over and over again. Everyone needs the same information, but they all want it on their own brand of application. Sometimes, I wonder why I even made a resume.

Anyway, every once in a while I have a good time while filling things out. Today, I was referred to a site that for a customer service company. Part of the application process was taking a 123 question survey. Some of these questions were really interesting to me, so I felt the need to share.

The first one that caught me off guard was the one to the left, #8. “About what percentage of your goals do you have to abondon before you reach them?”

WHAT?!

In my mind, if I have to abandon any of my goals, then I haven’t reached them. Therefore, the only answer I could choose is none. I have to abandon none of my goals before I reach them. But that wasn’t a choice. So I went with the best answer, “less than 10%”

I don't know how well others do this.

Then, in question #22, I had to compare myself to “others”. How affective do I consider myself to be in convincing someone to change his or her opinion on something?

I guess I don’t really know how affective other people are, so I have no way of comparing myself. I would imagine that I’m about the same as most, maybe better.

It turns out about 20% of the questions on this thing asked me to compare myself to others. The other one that really caught my attention was, “Relative to others you know, How long does it take you to get over being upset or angry?”

Everyone I know takes different amounts of time to get over being upset. It depends on what they are all upset about. So, I guess I’m the same as that.

I thought this question was funny because of my thought process.

The final question I’m going to specifically talk about is question #77. This one is particularly funny because of my thought process that went along with it. “I recognize relationships between seemingly unrelated events.” The answer chooses were varying degrees of agreeing. Here is what I was thinking about this question:

“Okay, so they’re asking me that if a guy does a bad job on a task one week and then gets fired if I’m going to see the connection. But, if I put down that I do put connections together, they are never going to hire me. Are they just asking straight up if I’m paranoid. Well, I’m not really paranoid, so I should put never agree. But they put ‘seemingly’ unrelated, meaning they probably were related events. Still, if that happened would I make the connection? probably. But I don’t want them to know that, right? Meh, whatever. I’ll tell them what they want to hear. I sometimes connect events. That’s basically the truth.”

Then I hit submit with that answer. As soon as I did, I replayed my thought in my head and realized that I just blew that question way out of proportion. I had definitely made a relationship between that question and the hiring process that is seemingly unrelated. How ironic. I realized that the real answer should probably be, I always recognize relationships between seemingly unrelated events.  weird.

Check out a few more questions below.

But I hate missing work for all these reasons.

Once again, how long does it take others to get over being upset?

I don't not like any of these.