Help! I need somebody...

[janne_d]

...to be inspired by.

I have an internal interview on Monday and apparently one of the interviewers likes to ask who you are inspired by. And while I am perfectly happy to tell friends that I'm inspired by (among others) Buffy, Eowyn, Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanova, I suspect they are looking for someone a little less fictional!

Any suggestions, oh mighty flist? Who would you answer if faced with that question?

Comments

[misc_plinks]

Joss Whedon? ^^
Personally, I'd probably go with Misha Collins.
Since you can't go with the fictional characters, try the actors or writers? There's surely one or two who do inspirational things.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the suggestions, but in the end they didn't even ask me that question! So all my brain-cudgeling was in vain.

[luztremula.livejournal.com]

Perhaps Steve Jobs?

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Ooh, interesting. Though wasn't he meant to be kind of a git to work for? Anyway, they ended up not asking me so I will store the suggestion for next time.

[luztremula.livejournal.com]

LOL, I don't know what he was like to work for, but as a visionary and a successful business man.

[emeraldsword.livejournal.com]

I'd say avoid female politicians but you could try athletes? Or a novelist like Doris Lessing or Margaret Atwood or someone? (Perhaps not JK Rowling, but that depends on who you're interviewing for, maybe - she gives a LOT to charity, and it's a very good rags-riches story, after all)

I hate this kind of question, good luck with it!

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

I hate that kind of question too, but in the end they didn't ask me, hoorah! Novelists were a good idea though - I will remember that for next time.