The Heavens open!...

The opportunity-of-a-lifetime finally comes within your grasp: an entry-level Web developer position, with a dominant focus on the Linux operating system and writing code in Perl - both of which have been self-learned over the past three years. Finally, the opportunity to tune out the ever-present chaos of the world and the uncertainty of illogical human interactions... an opportunity to finally delve into the recesses of the mind to analyze, theorize, and fabricate in a surreal realm of structures, functions, logic, and processes.

Success is in sight!...

You successfully make a positive impression as a team player who can communicate well with others and you provide an extensive portfolio to evidence your computer knowledge and programing prowess...

Irony...

Two hours of the three-hour interview are spent by head management explaining that the role they really want you to take involves interfacing directly with the customers and the store employees, to help improve their business model and develop new methodologies for customer/employee/computer interactions, because "there are some programmers who should never be put in front of other people."

So, you're qualified to be a developer, according to the coding evaluations they gave you, but you're not anti-social "enough" to hide you from the public eye.

Sigh...