The most stressful professional situations I've ever have been in have been maybe a 4 out of 10 stress-wise, whereas interviews range from 7 to 9 out of 10.
Agree mostly -- just that I guess I've fallen into more abusive environments than I should have allowed myself to over the years, where the stress levels have hit will into the 7-10 range.
But in healthy environments -- even when I really did screw something up (sometimes quite significantly) -- it's never above the 4-5 range.
Interviews aren't ordinary job situations: they are contrived situations where people are making life-changing decisions based on a very short interaction.
And pretending that they can read the tea leaves, and make that kind of assessment as to "whether this guy can handle a medium amount of pressure", to boot.
Agree mostly -- just that I guess I've fallen into more abusive environments than I should have allowed myself to over the years, where the stress levels have hit will into the 7-10 range.
But in healthy environments -- even when I really did screw something up (sometimes quite significantly) -- it's never above the 4-5 range.
Interviews aren't ordinary job situations: they are contrived situations where people are making life-changing decisions based on a very short interaction.
And pretending that they can read the tea leaves, and make that kind of assessment as to "whether this guy can handle a medium amount of pressure", to boot.