Read archived version of piece here: https://tomblog.rip/that-time-i-took-the-county-clerical-exam/

Note that Thought Catalog is undergoing a facelift per:

Thought Catalog is currently being rebuilt from the ground up. This is a laborious task that involves culling through over 150,000 pages and more than 100,000 articles. We created tomblog.rip (that is, Tomb Log, not Tom Blog) as a placeholder for all the old content; so we could start from a blank slate.

I was a regular Thought Catalog contributor for a few years. If you are interested in reading more of my pieces from that era, let me know and I can dig around.