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My new home was a long way from the center of London and it became essential ... a job, so finally I spent a whole morning getting to town and applying to London Transport for a job on the tube. It turned out that they were looking for guards, not drivers. This suited me. I couldn’t drive a car but I could probably guard a train and perhaps continue to write poems between stations. “Yes, I would be a tube guard,” I thought. I could see myself being cheerful, useful, a good man in a crisis. The next day I sat down, with almost a hundred other ... , for the intelligence test. I must have done all right because after half an hour’s wait I was sent into another room for a psychological test. The examiner sat at a desk. We were signalled forward ... the seat opposite him when the previous candidate had been dismissed. Sometimes the person was rejected quickly and sometimes after quite a while. Obviously the longer interviews were the most successful ones. Mine was the only one that lasted a minute and a half. I can remember the questions now: “Why did you leave your last job? Why did you leave your job before that? And the one before?” I can’t ... my answers, except they were short at first and grew shorter as we continued. His closing statement ... a lack of sensitivity, which helped to explain why as a psychologist he had risen no higher than the underground railway. “You have failed this test and we are unable to offer you a position”. ... to get that job was my low point. I thought that the work was easy. Actually, such a job demands exactly this sort of elementary responsibility a dreamer like me is unlikely to have. But, I was still far short of self-understanding as well as short of cash.