More Interview Crap
Mar. 31st, 2004 02:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
featherynscaleThey all ask me if I've got a cold, or a sore throat. No, actually. I just sound like this. All the time. I was inexplicably born with the voice of a 60-something blues singer. So sorry. So I say "No, this is just my normal voice". And then they get embarrassed. So maybe that's what's making me unemployable - I mean, I'm not all that funny-looking, and I write just like I talk, so maybe it's the fact that I sound like a drag queen. I wonder if I can get anybody to hire me without actually speaking to me first. Any ideas?
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Date: 2004-03-31 02:18 pm (UTC)You could always take it up two octaves and talk valley girl if you think the voice is keeping you down. It depends on what you are applying for though. The 'females' that work here all have odd things about them that might make them stick out elsewhere, but make them blend well in IT cube farms. One leg shorter than the other? No prob. Voice that sounds like the evil toon in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Cool deal. Hypoglycemic tendencies that make you short-circuit worse than Johnny 5 with a mohawk? We'll give you a cube neighbor with hard candies. How about a woman with breasts growing out of her shoulder blades? Employable, but I don't like sitting behind her in meetings.