Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Nights and weekends, Working

The next time you get down on librarianship and start thinking, "I went to graduate school so that I could get a job that requires me to work nights and weekends?!" just remember that you could be working in a fast food joint.

13 comments:

Nicci said...

Anyway, looks is more important than books. (1,000 points to the librarian who can name the book this quote is from)

Librarian at McDs said...

or maybe you are working in a fast food joint cause you're overqualified for those "paraprofessional" positions that are replacing librarian positions.

J said...

[Broken video link repaired at 1:49 PM.]

Bitter Bibliophile said...

OR you work in a library AND a fast food joint because of pay increase freezes, health care premiums increases, and if you're really lucky and work for a state gov't: FURLOUGHS

Anonymous said...

is Nicci's quote from Matilda, by Roald Dahl?

AG said...

Or you could just work for a school library! No nights or weekend hours, summer off, winter and spring breaks...
I'll stop bragging now.

Kerri said...

Technical services=no nights or weekends! :)

Content Cataloger said...

Technical Services FTW!

Librarian at the Circ desk said...

@Librarian at McD's: Or maybe you recently finished your MLIS, and still work one of those paraprofessional jobs because no one will hire you without 3+ years professional experience.

Mike said...

Ahh you Tech Serv weenies!!

Anonymous said...

But working at the fast food joint I never got to practice my photocopier unjamming skills!

Anonymous said...

@ Bitter Bibbliphile ... did you used to work in Harrisburg?

Anonymous said...

I never thought my MILS would be useful to have to be in the 'noise police' team.