Portraits of People

Well, I had a strange job interview yesterday. It was arranged with craigslist, a utility that is the best and worst way to find work. I was looking for something a little more professional than my last job, and applied to quite a few different places. When one of my contacts got back to me and suggested that I come for an interview ‘2morrow’ I knew it would be interesting.

After an epic journey into the belly of a rather seedy area of Montreal I arrived in front of their residential office. There was no business name and all the windows were covered, a promising sign. Defying my common sense I rang the door bell and was happy to see the smiling face of a young tattooed covered man. He told me to come in and make myself comfortable in front of one of the many computers. The environment was clean with lots of expensive cameras and equipment lying around. I knew before he told me that it was all used to make their ‘adult’ websites.

So I sat down and listened to him ask me questions about my computer skills. Yes, I am alright with photoshop, yes, I have a solid understanding of windows. Finally he requested that I preform a basic skill test, he pulled up a hardcore photoshop document and asked me to switch the position of some text. I quickly swapped ‘bizarre insertions!’ with ‘deep penetrations!’ and he seemed quite pleased. He then asked me to look at a photo-shoot and choose which pictures I thought were the best. It was at this moment that I started to really think about the idea of working in the porn industry. What would I tell my parents? Did I actually want to sit around and work with porn all day? Clearly the answer was no. I stopped and told him that I didn’t think this was for me. He understood, said thanks for coming out, and we went our separate ways. A strange interview.