In 1963, when I was in my teens, I went for a job interview.
I was edgy about the questions they would fire at me and had an image of being confronted by a panel of interrogators, as in the scene in the Peter Sellers 1962 film Only Two Can Play.
Sellers's character had cause for concern because the panel's chairman turned out to be the husband of his mistress. No such problems for the eighteen-year-old me, but it was still daunting.
I was to be interviewed by one apparently middle-aged chap. On meeting him again in later years, I realised that at the time he must have been only in his late twenties!
I sat outside his office while he finished a phone call. I was expecting to pick…
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The Oldie (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2025