The company I was working for closed down my division and I ended up looking for a job (it was telecom and the whole industry just dropped off). Was interviewing with the group Finance Director (where I ended up) and he asked me where I saw myself in 5 years. I laughed and replied "no idea, I quit thinking about it. If you had asked me 5 years ago, my answer wouldn’t have been “unemployed and talking to you”". He sort of looked at me and I added that there are too many variables outside of my control and all I could do was plan a path, execute the plan but keep an open mind and evolve with new information or the situation changed.
This is the dumbest question that gets asked on interviews. It’s like asking a football coach, “What play will you call five downs from now?”
My short answer is “Where will you need me in 5 years? If I haven’t solved the problem for which you are hiring me to solve today, then you should fire me before the 5 years is up.”
Am I the only one wondering where the desk and chair came from since there are only ferns (for wood) and no animals with leather hides at this point in prehistory…?
wallylm 6 months ago
That should be “Where do you see your descendants in five million years?” (low probability we will have any that far in the future)
Superfrog 6 months ago
Well, my plans are just evolving.
cmxx 6 months ago
On the boiling-hot verge of extinction.
sirbadger 6 months ago
Staying away from sharks.
Ratkin Premium Member 6 months ago
Scaling the heights of success.
oldpine52 6 months ago
The catch of the day at a seafood restaurant.
enigmamz 6 months ago
With your job.
Doug K 6 months ago
5 million years? If I’m not back in the water soon,
… I’ll be dead in less than 5 minutes.
Jeff0811 6 months ago
I plan to be sleeping with the fishes.
rekam Premium Member 6 months ago
When asked where I expected to be in 5 years, I never knew what to say.
jpsomebody 6 months ago
Still waiting for the commercials to be over, so I can resume watching a YouTube video.
LawrenceS 6 months ago
“A fossil displayed on a museum wall.”
“Good. Good, you’re planning for the… What’s a museum?”
ATGMer 6 months ago
Retired.
steveh64 6 months ago
Wishing I were back here.
nancyb creator 6 months ago
A fish extincts from the head.
Webby_dog 6 months ago
dirt
[Traveler] Premium Member 6 months ago
Hanging on a fisherman’s wall
pkatz 6 months ago
5 million years is not very long in evolution. Humans and Chimps are separated by 50 million years.
mindjob 6 months ago
I might have fewer scales, but not much else
dogbreath84 6 months ago
The worst offenders are the primates who became human.
Aficionado 6 months ago
I LOVE it!! Great one, Wiley!!
Slowly, he turned... 6 months ago
Still wallowing in a disgusting puddle, apparently.
Walrus Gumbo Premium Member 6 months ago
As inspiration for Billy Bass, the wall mounted singing fish.
rodney 6 months ago
The company I was working for closed down my division and I ended up looking for a job (it was telecom and the whole industry just dropped off). Was interviewing with the group Finance Director (where I ended up) and he asked me where I saw myself in 5 years. I laughed and replied "no idea, I quit thinking about it. If you had asked me 5 years ago, my answer wouldn’t have been “unemployed and talking to you”". He sort of looked at me and I added that there are too many variables outside of my control and all I could do was plan a path, execute the plan but keep an open mind and evolve with new information or the situation changed.
sandpiper 6 months ago
If that time zone is anywhere close to now, I’d think a dead fish would equal the truly awful smell in modern politics.
dflak 6 months ago
This is the dumbest question that gets asked on interviews. It’s like asking a football coach, “What play will you call five downs from now?”
My short answer is “Where will you need me in 5 years? If I haven’t solved the problem for which you are hiring me to solve today, then you should fire me before the 5 years is up.”
For a Just and Peaceful World 6 months ago
I see him guilty on all 34 felony counts, running for President of the United States and ready to give Ukraine to Putin.
oish 6 months ago
Emperor of the United States
Out of the Past 6 months ago
I was only asked that once and got it right. I said here. I knew I was going nowhere and had arrived.
ladykat 6 months ago
Devolving.
Walt Tuttle 6 months ago
“Where do you see yourself in five years?”
“I think listening is my greatest weakness.”
Kurtass 6 months ago
On a hook.
dwagner200 6 months ago
Red Lobster
wildlandwaters 6 months ago
in IT…
Richard S Russell Premium Member 6 months ago
Same as always: in the mirror.
ObsiWan Premium Member 6 months ago
Am I the only one wondering where the desk and chair came from since there are only ferns (for wood) and no animals with leather hides at this point in prehistory…?
Mike Baldwin creator 6 months ago
Sitting across from my doctor being told to eat more fish.
Bilan 6 months ago
“We talked about it. We’re all going to evolve to live on land and then trash the entire place. That way, we’ll need to go back to living in the sea.”
mistercatworks 6 months ago
Petroleum?
lnrokr55 6 months ago
So, Interviews haven’t evolved…. Shocker !
LJZ Premium Member 6 months ago
Preserved in a sheet of shale.
AZPhinFan 6 months ago
Realizing that if I’m still here in 5 million years then it wasn’t by chance
SrTechWriter 6 months ago
Please note that Wiley is taking a break, and this cartoon is a repeat from 2020.
"Doon the Watter" on the Waverley 6 months ago
Turn around and go back! It’s a trap!
eddi-TBH 6 months ago
“Do I qualify for the mammal fast track?”
DaBump Premium Member 6 months ago
Still a fish: sturgeon, paddlefish, sharks, coelacanths…
Otis Rufus Driftwood 6 months ago
Is this an exit or entry interview?
Impact55 6 months ago
Participating in a Presidential debate on cable.
JH&Cats 6 months ago
These are all (well, mostly) very clever comments—good answers!
lindz.coop Premium Member 6 months ago
Don’t even go there…
keenanthelibrarian 6 months ago
Probably where I am now, but with more responsibility and still no authority; rapidly going mad, in other words.
aussie399 Premium Member 3 months ago
Dead.