After months of job hunting, I’ve picked up a lot of good tips for questions to ask during interviews. Not that I get a lot of interviews. A lot of places use AI to filter out applications before a human ever sees them, let alone you have a chance at a face-to-face interview. But one of the good ones is why is this job opportunity open. You can find out if somebody got promoted or if they downsized and are re-hiring. I asked it as an assistant in a magicians knife throwing act. He said early retirement.