During my first ever interview for a job at 19 with a British
airline, one of the panel asked me: “If you were a pilot headed due north and
the aircraft came over the North Pole, how would know which direction to fly in
to get to your destination?”
As the answer came to me, I blessed my geography teacher in
school (he served in the Royal Navy in the Second World War and knew all about
compasses and navigation).
My solution was: “I would continue flying till the compass
showed