Answering "What Animal Would You Be"

Have you ever been in an interview and the interviewer asks the strangest questions you’ve ever heard? If you could be anyone, who would you be? Why are manholes round? What’s your favorite drink?

I have a question; what’s the point of all these meaningless questions? But, more importantly, how do you answer these unusual and awkward inquiries? One person asked that more than reasonable question to Fortune magazine.

The anonymous questioner wanted to know how to answer, “what animal would you be?” While I would have said “I’m a teddy bear, soft and cuddly” (oh, oops, wrong post), the anonymous poster answered “a dog,” loving and loyal.

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