[Publib] Late night thoughts on retirement . . . and jobs and people

[Backwage at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/19/2009 12:20:52 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
jschallan at gmail.com writes:

I would  respectfully beg anyone on the list setting out on a
professional-degree  program to reconsider. There aren't going to be
jobs for most of you, and  even the few of you who do get jobs may find
they are nothing like what you  expected.


I'm glad you wrote that.  This has been true for some time now.   The 
solution is to take your skills elsewhere.  Sometimes you've got to  make your 
own job.  For people who can answer questions--assuming they can  do something 
with those answers--there will be a place.  The world is full  of empty 
spots for us.  For the more enterprising, the sharper, the ones  who can make 
results.  
 
There are two really awful wastes of intellect in America.  One is the  
attorney, in which a very clever, capable individual spends her career  
initiating and enlarging disputes between parties rather than solving  them.  The 
other is the librarian, who too often waits for the question,  and then 
settles for it.  We need to control the questions--the idea that  we only suggest 
answers is ridiculous and for us, fatal.
 
M. M. 
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