[Publib] Monday thoughts on Sunday

[Mary Soucie]

I love being a librarian and I was a teacher before that. My dream job, when
I retire, is to become a personal shopper for other people. Best of both
worlds- get to shop to my heart's content and spend other people's
money doing it!

My dad was a route salesman for Hostess cake for over 30 years. My mom was a
reference librarian. One of my grandpa's worked in the steel mills in
Chicago and the other was a janitor at city hall in Chicago. I have great
respect for the trades, for truck dirvers, etc. Even though I don't
personally want any of those positions.

When I go out to eat, I always tip very well because I wouldn't want to be a
waitress but an very thankful that others are willing to be.

I did hire someone to put a garden in for me- and to maintain it. That's
because we had wooden flowers wilt at our house! :-) However, my son and I
mulched the front yard, moved plants around, and other yard work for the
first time in the front yard.

I think there can be a happy medium between doing it yourself and hiring
someone to do the parts that you're not capable of.

My son wants to be a carpenter- at the moment anyway. (He's 15 so it's open
to debate.) We are encouraging him to go to college to have something to
fall back on. We're also encouraging him to shadow a carpenter that we know
to get an idea of the options available. I believe that having a degree is a
smart thing today- it always helps to have a backup plan.

>  Once we had masses of people demanding jobs; now we have masses of
> educated folk demanding jobs that won't dirty their hands--and also that
> these jobs be located in clean, well-lit offices among others of their
> kind.  Tell me the truth:  would you work at something other than
> librarianship for the same money or better?  And why don't you now?
>



-- 
Have a great day!

Mary

Mary J. Soucie, MLIS
Library Director
Three Rivers Library District
Channahon/Minooka IL
25207 W Channon Dr     PO Box 300
Channahon IL  60410
815-467-6200 x303
815-467-4012 Fax
Yahoo IM: trldirector
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