Indulgence

So, I have time and the house to myself and absolutely no energy to work… I wrote a "real" entry. it’s over there <, but now I think i’m going to do a survey.

I don’t have one of the site’s currently popular surveys at hand, so I think i’ll ask myself the questions from this uniform interview we have in the paper. It’s an interview for rich successful people, kind of meant to tease ou to f them what made the rich and successful. Never mind, i’ll do it anyway.

What was your childhood like?

Well, i wrote about that not long go. I grew in the intellectual area of Haifa. A citty, but with a lot of green and nature around. My parents were’nt rich but they fealt good about where they were, career-wise and financially. I was the smart, dreamy kid who didn’t care about looks or clothes and live in her own fantasy world. However, i did have a lot of friends and i was very into assessing the class popularity situation. I was in the middle, right under the cutoff for the popular club. I never got chosen for sports, or by the boys.

What is the first childhood memory that comes to mind?

Well, since i’m sitting at my paren’t house now, right above the Wadi, i remember when this girl Noa came over once, when I was 10 or so, and I offered to hike down into the Wadi. She said yes and I was like "wow, I wou;dn’t have thought you were a Wadi type" and she said "well, i wouldn’t have thought YOU were a wadi type" And I was thinking – wow, that’s a shock. I was sure everyone could tell for miles what a nature-loving girl I was. But that was my big mistake of my childhood. I didn’t know that no one could tell anything about me if I didn’t talk to them…. i didn’t realize my wonderful interior (lated also dicovered to be not always that wonderful) didn’t shine out to the world by itself. I would have to get out of my shyness if someone were to notice me.

What was the first job you had?

As a 16 year old I worked in a shitty seretarial job doing nothing and being very very bored, for a pretty nice wad of money. My frist real job, at 18, was a desk clerk at a motel. Boy was I a sh*tty clerk – made so many mistakes. The place waseven  sh*ttier – most of the clients were adultrers and whores… I saw more than one dirty condom before i ever used one.

What was the biggest career mistake you ever made?

Good question. For now i’m happy with all of the steps i took. I hope i won’t end up regreting not taking the position at the ad agency, the one that i told you about. For now i think i did the right thing but i’m not 100% sure.

Is it important to you to be rich?

I wish i could always have this extra and neverending wad of cash hidden somewhere. Then i wouldn’t really care how i lived today, as long as i knew that if i really needed something in the future, i would have it.

When do you get up in the morning?

in the summer, i can’t sleep past 7:00. In winter, i drag myself out of bed at 8:00. No jogging-before-work for me.

Do you do any sports?

On weeks in which i have purchased a new treadmill – yeah. Otherwise, no.

What is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?

My car was bought for me, so i have to say the trip to ireland last summer.

What made you succesful?

Well, since i’m not THAT succesful, i’ll have to say that the things that brought me to where i am are hard work, always feeling i’m going to be fired if i don’t do more, curiosity, versatility and willingness to try anything, writing skills, internet skills, creativity in connecting between things that others don’t see the conection in. Things that have brough me down are – when i don’t want to work i just shut down, lack of assertiveness, lack of charisma and leadership skills, messiness in my head and in my workspace, sometimes not seeing a step over my nose and not getting the big picture.

What do you like to do in your spare time?

Read (the most amazing thing), OD, hike, movies, hang out with friends, dream up little projects that never actually happen.

oy… i’m getting really tired of this. My interviewees usually have better answers and my back has begun to hurt. Read the last entry! It’s much more interesting.