Interviews for ‘zombie jobs’ still beneficial

Today I had a job interview, but it wasn’t to progress my skills as a journalist, it wasn’t for “hey this looks good on my résumé” purposes, and it definitely wasn’t for a title I could go around dropping while speaking to females to impress them.
The interview was for a menial, retail job that many college students like me have to get all the time to survive. Students need books, food, clothing, personal hygiene items, and the occasional recreational item to take their minds off of school for a few hours of the day like a video game or a DVD, and those costs can add up quick.
We have to suck it up, disregard our college education, put all of our highfalutin phrases away (like highfalutin), and get an entry level job in retail, industry, or business where customers have to talk into a giant head to get their ordes, to help pay for the costs of bettering ourselves through college.
Catch-22 situations such as these are all over the place, where we as students decide we don’t want to have to work at an entry-level job our whole lives so we go to college, yet we have to get a job there to help pay to avoid it.
As I sat in the chair being asked questions of how I would improve the company, what my good and bad qualities were, and all the other cliché questions college professors told us we would definitely be asked, I did realize something however.
These interviews are great learning experiences, especially if they are for jobs that we won’t be greatly disappointed if we don’t get hired. If we mess up an interview for stocking shelves, then let’s be frank, there are tons of other shelves that need stocking out there. If we mess up our dream job interview where we only get one shot, then lots of ice cream consumption is likely to occur as we spiral downward into a massive pit of depression and self loathing.
Students about to graduate, like myself, should understand that these interviews for temporary jobs can be far more helpful than any professor can give us in class. By going through interviews such as these, we can become familiar with some of the more obscure or oddball questions employers might throw at us and we can even become so comfortable with the interviewing experience that we can gush confidence in later interviews in far larger amounts that could be provided by anything purchased on an infomercial at 3 a.m.
So get out there and interview, even if you don’t want a job, because you might as well learn how to interview before you’re sweating like you’re under the hot seat on one of those television cop drama shows during your dream job interview. Interviews for ‘zombie’ jobs can still be beneficial.