[Publib] RE: Employement laments

[Theyer, Hillary]

I can share the wisdom my advisor shared with us when my class entered library school in 1992 and asked if we were about to make the biggest, most expensive career error of our lives.  She said public libraries swung on a pendulum, and the jobs would swing back.  My first four years of MLS employement were at the "39 hours a week as hourly with no benefits technically called an on-call but worked as if full time" rate - but I soaked up everything I could and learned a ton that made me a viable candidate when the full time with benefits opportunites came again.   Three years later I was sitting having breakfast with my boss at ALA and she was lamenting that a children's librarian could basically name their price, she was so hungry for good ones.  I has the good fortune to be able to afford to wait, but I know people now who are working part-time in libraries, part time in other organizations, learning all they can so they can pounce on the right opportunity when it comes up.  No laments, just charge in and love the job.  if you don't love it, that's another story ...

Hillary Theyer


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