[Publib] More Work

[Jan MacLeod]

Like Leslie, I'd be a librarian.  I have found that people are amazed when I
tell them I did library work as a volunteer for 12 years before going back
to school. I became an LTA when my kids were in grade school, and then
realized I loved it so much I wanted to know more, so I am now 2 classes
away from my MLIS.
I did a lot of the work  (taught to me by gracious, overworked librarians
who were happy for the assistance) I do now for nothing more than their
grateful thanks and the satisfaction I got from the work.  I am now hoping
to continue for as long as I am able -   hopefully for a bit more
(spendable) compensation!   =)

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:34 AM, <backwage at aol.com> wrote:

> I forgot to mention that my father went to college after having been an
> aviation structural mechanic in the aerospace industry.  He never spoke a
> word about his former life.  One day when I was quite young, I opened a
> toolbox in the garage and found all sorts of gizmos, strange devices that I
> know now were for forming the bodies and skins of aircraft.  I asked Dad
> what they were and he said, "Tools."  That was the entirety of the
> explanation.  The man across the street had to tell me that my father had
> been an aviation mechanic and before that a sheetmetal worker in a
> shipyard.
>
> My father was ashamed of manual work--for a living, anyhow.  He taught
> English and wouldn't change his own oil because that was for "grease
> monkeys."  Thus he rose in his own estimation.  For his generation it was a
> huge thing to go to college; manual labor was something to leave behind.
> Even so, he taught himself carpentry, bricklaying and the rudiments of other
> trades, mostly because he was too cheap and we were too poor (from his
> teacher's pay) to have things done for us.  I can attest to the fact that
> prestige, such as you might enjoy from being the only teacher in a working
> class neighborhood, adds no calories to the family diet.
>
> You don't know how it grates on me to have the guys where I work, all of
> them former journeymen pipefitters and plumbers, say "You know best on
> this.  I'm just a mechanic."  I tell them that if they had to start the
> world all over again they wouldn't begin with researchers.
>
> On the other hand, the best apprentices we get come from college
> backgrounds.  The reason for this is that they have discovered that the
> degree is not a magic carpet to employment, and because they have learned
> how to study.
>
> Everybody belongs in the job they would do if they won the lottery.  I'd be
> a gardener.  How about you?
>
> M. McGrorty
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