Here is the final set of results for the five truths and a lie. If you missed the original you can click http://wp.me/p2Qoij-TH.
For the first set of results you can click http://wp.me/p2Qoij-TR
Makes me feel a little guilty that only four of the responses were correct. So here are the final results and the those who guessed correctly. Again I apologize for not having a Ferrari to give as a prize. Maybe next time.
Story Number Four I went off to college and believed I would make a good veterinarian. I loved animals and could not imagine a more worthy career. The first term in vet school found me up late at night babysitting a very sick goat. The goat needed surgery and the vet finished the task. My job was to walk the goat around so the anesthesia could be naturally dispersed. If the goat lay down it could ultimately suffer from a bloated condition that could be fatal. I walked the goat for more than eight hours and did some serious thinking. That night alone with the goat made me realize I was not really prepared to deal with life and death decisions over these gentle creatures. The goat did survive, but I decided to make a change. I changed majors at the end of the term. The story is FALSE.
I initially enrolled in the Landscape Architecture school. Spent the term struggling since I found I had no talent. It was the kind of thing you either have it or you don’t. I didn’t. I also ran for class office and won. This spelled the end of my career in Landscape Architecture and the beginning of a long association with the liberal arts.
Story Number Five When I was getting ready to graduate from the university I began the process of interviewing for a job. A number of companies interviewed right at the school and so I signed up for about thirty or so. I was talking to a company which manufactured office furniture. All was going well until I complimented the person on the quality of their clocks. As can happen doing a number of interviews I had the wrong company. Their names were the same, but one did clocks and one did furniture. The furniture guy was not pleased to talk intelligently only to discover the person he thought would be right for the job was an idiot. The story is TRUE (unfortunately)
If there was ever an award for the most inept interviewer I would have won hands down. The guy looked at me and shook his head and advised me to do better research. The sad point was; I had researched the hell out of clocks. I think I could have built one out whatever material was at hand.
Story Number Six I graduated from college and went to work for a famous consumer products company. (Yes I survived the interview process) My job was to introduce new products and maintain share of established brands in my assigned territory. I would visit grocery stores, drug stores, and mass merchants to represent the company brands. I worked diligently and was recruited away by another company. The presentation that caused the recruiter to believe I was right for the new company involved swallowing Tic Tacs telling the buyer before “if you don’t say yes to this order I have some cyanide I will need to take since my boss will kill me anyway.” It only worked from a humor point of view. The story is TRUE
I was unaware there was anyone observing my presentation. The door to the buying office was open and one of the salesmen sitting in the anteroom overheard the conversation. He caught me on the way out and suggested I give his boss a call. He thought I would fit in with his company. The rest is history since I took the new job and stayed for over twenty years. He was right, it was a perfect fit.
Thank you all. Here are the links to those who guessed correctly. Go see what makes them so clairvoyant.
Beth Drew
