Confessions of a Serial Interviewer by Steven Ra Ga

Be carful what you write on your resume.

While applying to jobs I saw an ad for a Kombucha Brewer. Not thinking I would get the job I applied. My dad had been making kombucha for a couple of months and showed me how to do it, didn’t seem that hard.

When the company had reached out I knew I was in over my head. There was no way I could take this job. There was a room filed with all this science stuff and this big vat that had to be cleaned.

The business owner kept referring to my resume “since you have production experience you would be great for this position.” I couldn’t figure out what she was talking about until it hit me. When I went to film school you take this program called production design with is a title for someone to runs the art department production. It has nothing to do with production experience for making kombucha.

At the end of the interview the lady was like “so this job is yours if you want it.” I didn’t want to it. I wanted out of there asap.

After I left a week goes by and I get an email, she had hired someone that was a beer brewer, they eventually started mixing their product with beer.

That was the last I heard from them, but good on them for hiring someone who knew what they were doing. I could only imagine how bad I would have screwed that gig up.