This is a practice of my learning english. I appreciate corrections.
1.- Tell me something you’re proud of.
I'm proud of nothing in my life. It
would be better to say that I'm grateful. Yes... because all the
things I have achieved come from the chance. I've had the opportunity
of reaching many aims, a lot of objectives. I've had the tools, the
means to get my wishes. I've had to strive to achieve what I have
wanted, but... the capacity of striving is also a skill. This skill
originates from genetic inheritance, from my parent's education, from
the first childhood experiences... The ability of fighting, of
working, of striving, of struggling... is a random inheritance.
-Yes… but… there are men and women
that when they have the chance of achieving their aims… they don’t
do… In this sense It would mean that people have merit or demerit
according to their sloth or they effort…
-But why are they sloth or industrious?
Do they decide it? And if they decide it? Why do they decide it? Can
they decide any other thing? Are they capables for deciding any other
thing? The capacity for deciding the right decission is also a gift,
a skill. I can not be proud of this skill, because this skill depends
on many random reasons.
2.- What makes you think you could do your job?
I have always had many difficulties to
understand the lessons teachers taught me... because many of them
were very bad teachers. I have overcome the obstacles they have put
on my learning path, and so I know what a teacher must not do, what a
teacher must do, how must he speak, how must he dominate the group,
what difficulties the group is going to find, what weak points I have
to attack... And I know all these things through the mistakes and the
clumsiness of my old teachers.
3. What kind of leadership qualities do
you have?
I don’t believe in leaderships. I
think that the teacher of course must command. And a teacher of
children, of young people, have a lot of skills to command without
authoritarianism. Perhaps he will have to show his autority the first
day, or the first week… but afterwards, the authority will have to
diminish… The teacher is older, is wiser, should be more empathetic
than any of his pupils… all this skills allow him to work without a
constant use of authority. I think leadership is an important matter
when we are talking about groups of persons that have a similar age
and matureness. A teacher must be a bit like a father… by my point
of view.
4.- Why did you leave your last job?
Well, really, I left it voluntarily. I
was sitting on the top of a hydrochloric acid tank, in Madrid, under
a burden august sun, and I told my self “What I’m doing here?
Working day by day only to produce paper? Sheets of paper that will
be thrown to the ground of the streets? All my mind, my skills, my
empathy, my poetry, my humanity… sacrificed to enrich the bank
accounts of the owners of this factory?” After these thoughts, I
decided to be a writter and a teacher, and I got off the tank, and
went to the personnel department to say that I went away.
5.- Do you have any skills or hobbies
you think might be useful for this job?
Yes. I write. I like to imagine
situations. I like to invent games, strategies. I like to work the
times and the staging of a class. I like young people. I like the way
of being of the children. Teens, preteens. I think that they have
skills that afterwards they will loose, interesting skills…
creativity, spontaneity, happiness, essential sincerity (not about
details but about feelings) they usually don’t use a mask, it’s
easy for me to know what are their feelings, and how are their
thoughts… this ease makes my work more simple.
6.- What do you think is your greatest
fault?
I’m too self-dependent, too
self-contained, too self-sufficient… and so… It’s no easy for
me to relate with adult people, with contributors… In general, in
my life, not only in my job, my wishes of independace and freedom
push me to break relations with friends or with people that don’t
accept a high level of freedom in a relation. I’m happy alone. I
like people but if I have to choose between people and freedom I
preffer freedom. So… I have very few friends, but I’m happy.
7.- How do you feel about spending time
away from home?
It’s very important for me to live
usually in my home, with my family. I could sporadically travel far
away, but no more than a week every three months. I preffer time than
money. I preffer a job with a low salary but a lot of free time than
a job with a high salary but many busy hours in a day.
8.- What do you see yourself doing in
five year’s time?
The same than now, but in english. I
like what I do, more than any other job in the world. I am where I
want to be. If I won the lottery, I would do what I’m doing. But if
the life changed in the future, I’m sure I would find a way of
doing what I’m doing now, or very similar.
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