Jobs you’re so glad you didn’t get

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I have a job interview next week and I’ve been contemplating for weeks whether getting it will be the best thing ever … or a huge mistake! It’s basically a big risk.

so my question is - was there ever a job you didn’t get after an interview and later realised it was the best thing to happen to you?

I was once knocked back for a job that later had the staff go on strike due to bullying from the headteacher! So I’m glad I didn’t get it!

I went for a recruitment consultant job when 8 was just out of uni. Got told to go away and get 6 months experience in media sales and then come back.

Realised I had no interest in either and very glad I never got that job!

One time I just missed out on a job I really wanted.

Opened a newspaper six months later and the hiring manager had lost a sexual harassment tribunal

I was once offered a job and turned it down as I'd had a more favourable offer elsewhere. The woman who would have been my manager called me and ranted at me for ages for not taking the job. I was too gobsmacked to respond. Bullet dodged.

Went for an interview at an estate agents. I was maybe 19. Got some funny looks walking through the office, met the owner of the business who was interviewing but it was an odd interview - no real “work” questions, just awkward chatting. Didn’t get the job.

Few years later I was working in the same town and used to read the local paper.
The estate agent was found guilty of running brothels from a number of rental properties he owned.

I didn't get rejected for this as I didn't apply, but a weird story anyway...

Some years ago I was made redundant, and my job search came up with a job talking to gorillas using sign language. Sounded absolutely amazing! Further research uncovered the reason for the vacancy - the previous jobholders were fired after they refused to get naked to satisfy the gorilla's curiosity.

www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna6998057

Groom of the Stool.

To be honest I never bothered applying, it sounded a bit of a shit job from the start.

Even though Henry VIII was apparently very charismatic and a bundled of laughs (until you married him!) I just thought "I can do better than this."

I mean there was enough shit-stirring where I worked, unblocking the griddle at the Sewage Treatment Plant, I just didn't need it, even if it was presented in a fine porcelain dish.

Yes, I once didn't get a job but found out afterwards that the job was to replace someone who was still there but being managed out - she was part of the interview process hiring her replacement!

Went for an overseas grad sales job, made a bit of an idiot of myself at interview (tried to fluff a question instead of asking them to explain it/admit I'd never heard of the point). Felt mortified and thought I'd really let myself down . Got an entry level public sector job instead and made a great first career out of it including travel and several promotions before retraining using my experience to get into an unexpectedly interesting course.

Interview for bar job in the 90's. They asked me what I'd do of a man with dreadlocks came in. I said serve him, they explained that it wasn't the answer they were looking for.

A technical role in Trinidad and Tobago. I’d just met future dh and he was living in the Middle East so the commute would have been a nightmare. It was bad enough from my uk office!

I was offered a job doing admin for a holiday firm. I very politely turned it down as they had taken a long time to contact me after interview, and I had accepted another job offer.
The manager was SO rude and unpleasant. I had been polite and thanked her for the opportunity. She was downright nasty, unprofessional, and put the phone down on me!
Fast forward six months, the same woman calls my workplace to book our services. And manages to offend everyone she encounters, to the point that my new manager refused her business.

When I was 16 and at college (my mum didn't want me to go) My mum arranged for me to have a trial as a dental nurse. I turned up put on the uniform, first procedure was a young boy having a tooth removed with gas.(showing my age). I was watching one minute and then only remember being brought round after passing out!!!
The dentist said at least you didn't wet yourself, it's really common. I didn't get the job thank god.didwell at college and went to uni.

Yes - company was in not a great way and that all came out partly in the interview and partly after.

I didn’t get a job but the interviewer, who would’ve been my boss, added me on LinkedIn afterwards and from his posts he seems insufferable! So glad he was never my boss!

I went for Dean of Humanities at my university a few years ago, not because I really wanted to be an administrator but because everyone thought I would be really good at it and should apply. It went to a colleague instead, as the provost could clearly read my ambivalence a mile off. I felt about 10% sad not to have got it but 90% relieved that I didn't and I never put in for any administrational jobs again, better paid though they are than the classroom.