If you don't mind me asking, what is your current job?
Also, get back to the question at hand, it is perfectly normal to dislike interviews. Unfortunately they are a necessary evil. The more you go to, they easier they become and the more experience you get :)
No, I don't mind at all, although my answer won't leave you any the wiser because my role has developed in many different directions and there isn't really a job title for what I do. Basically, though, I work with professors (mainly medical) who approach me when they vaguely know what they want to do but don't know how to do it.
Basically, I'm the opposite of a research professor. They have huge knowledge in very specific fields (and I do mean specific - I worked closely with the world authority on arachnid knee joints, until he retired). I'm the opposite, because I have limited knowledge in lots of areas.
As an example of something I was asked, I was approached by people who wanted a survey developing. Not a problem in itself, but the survey couldn't use any written or spoken language and it couldn't be filled in with any written, typed or spoken language. It was delivered in sign language and the answers had to be recorded in sign language without anyone (like a cameraman) being present. To make it even harder, it had to be anonymous. To make it harder still, the answers (though anonymous) had to be linked back to answers these anonymous people filled in on paper twenty years ago.
That part of my job is the closest thing to sitting in a room and doing lateral thinking puzzles all day. I love it.
Is it normal to hate job interviews?
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If you don't mind me asking, what is your current job?
Also, get back to the question at hand, it is perfectly normal to dislike interviews. Unfortunately they are a necessary evil. The more you go to, they easier they become and the more experience you get :)
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No, I don't mind at all, although my answer won't leave you any the wiser because my role has developed in many different directions and there isn't really a job title for what I do. Basically, though, I work with professors (mainly medical) who approach me when they vaguely know what they want to do but don't know how to do it.
Basically, I'm the opposite of a research professor. They have huge knowledge in very specific fields (and I do mean specific - I worked closely with the world authority on arachnid knee joints, until he retired). I'm the opposite, because I have limited knowledge in lots of areas.
As an example of something I was asked, I was approached by people who wanted a survey developing. Not a problem in itself, but the survey couldn't use any written or spoken language and it couldn't be filled in with any written, typed or spoken language. It was delivered in sign language and the answers had to be recorded in sign language without anyone (like a cameraman) being present. To make it even harder, it had to be anonymous. To make it harder still, the answers (though anonymous) had to be linked back to answers these anonymous people filled in on paper twenty years ago.
That part of my job is the closest thing to sitting in a room and doing lateral thinking puzzles all day. I love it.