How would you describe yourself to someone?
I just answered a similar prompt, although it was asking to describe yourself to someone who couldn’t see you. My response was I smell like vanilla. Maybe it’s true, maybe it isn’t. But someone who can’t see me already knows what I smell like. People who can’t see have heightened other senses.
I wonder if WordPress simply forgot to add on the rest of the question to this prompt and it was published again. I’m just saying…it wouldn’t surprise me.
Honestly, I wouldn’t describe myself to anyone. Isn’t that a weird thing to do? Is this a job interview? I can’t think of a single other situation in life where describing yourself is asked.
I have never been asked to describe myself while filling the tank with gas, for example.
“Ten dollars on pump four, please,” I say as I pass the bill across the counter.
The clerk takes my money, then thoughtfully asks, “How would you describe yourself?”
“Currently?”
The clerk nods a gentle encouragement.
“I would describe myself as a little bit weirded out, impatient – because I’m waiting for you to hit the button so I can fill my gas tank, and I’m contemplating running out of here because this is stupidly awkward.”
Can you imagine? Me, neither.
“It's Amy,” I said. 
It looks like they’ve generated a heap of questions that are slightly different from each other but forgot to shuffle them around.
I’ve been on consulting jobs where you are moving through teams with and without the same people all the time so we sit around the table and answer the same usual questions as a ‘team’ over and over. It was a big IT firm, if you’ve ever seen Severance you’ll realise we have instructions for everything. Questions like… tell us something about yourself nobobdy knows. How many times can you answer this question? And I’ve been in charge of teams so I’ve dropped this exercise like a hot potatoe. But a ‘non-work’ question can be construed as intrusive by the wrong personality type… so we just get muffins and call it an intro meeting and I try to bring up their last few roles to break the ice, then if that goes well I might ask if they have any hobbies they want to share. Always awkward.
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This is definitely a job interview question. This is not an out in the real world question. It’s very strange to ask people this question if it’s not related to a work environment. If someone asked me this and I wasn’t on the work assignment, I would run for the hills. 😆
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I love your tongue-in-cheek answer. You are beautiful, thanks for letting me see a glimpse of who you are. Kind regards.
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Thank you so much. Have a great day!
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😂 the WordPress prompts never cease to amaze me in that regard. The repetitiveness of them is hilarious!
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