I’ve been mostly unemployed for almost a year after fracturing my spine at the end of November last year (epileptic seizure.) I used to be a preschool teacher and an office administrator before the pandemic, now I’m going back to school in a few months to get my child development degree and return to preschool teaching.
I’ve been doing Grubhub since 3 months after I fractured my spine. Now I’m trying to get an hourly position, and I’ve been struggling to get one. I interviewed for a waitressing job at Denny’s and they asked me where I saw myself in 5 years and what my future plans were, and I told them that I was returning to school for Child Development. I didn’t get the job. Now, I have an interview at McDonalds today, and I’m worried that THEY’RE going to ask me the same question. Everybody keeps telling me that McDonalds won’t ask me questions like that, but I’ve done multiple interviews where I didn’t expect a complex interview, and they did ask in-depth questions. I guess basically what I’m asking is, how tf should I answer that? There’s nothing wrong with working at McDonalds but, obviously I don’t dream of working at McDonald’s at 35 years old and I don’t particularly want to get into restaurant management or own a McDonald’s franchise. I don’t want to lie and say I do, I’m a bad liar. What do I say if they do ask?