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The Quick and Dirty Career Test
Blogthings tells me I should be a Corporate Trainer or a Librarian (amongst other things). Funnily enough, I’m both of those! Perhaps I should redo the quiz and see what I get if I pick the other answers.
Josh Earl did an interview with Penthouse magazine, here’s a quote from it:
With nerds becoming quite trendy what do you think it is that attracts people to Librarians?
Did you know that if you type cool into predictive text it actually spells book. Why? Because books are cool! Predictive text told me, so it must be true. Predictive text never gets things wrong.
Just this week I’ve met two new people (both male) - friends of friends. Both of them have hit me with that “wow you’re a librarian, I’ve always had a thing for librarians, that whole let your hair down from a bun and take your glasses off thing that librarians can do…”
Does anyone else ever hear this?
Also, how many more times can you deal with those jokes at parties from inebriated people about “have you been having a fun time tonight giving all the books here a dewey decimal number” and other such inane gags?
My standard replies are things like “yes, in fact, I’m wearing contact lenses right now, you got me on that. Do you want me to put my hair in a bun for you and grab my cardigan out of the car…” etc
This post I wrote yesterday has prompted me to get the ball rolling a little bit faster with a new website I had an idea for: Library Jobs - putting the bounce back in your step.
I figured, if I was going to be investigating the job market, that maybe I’d make life easier for myself, and for other people cataloguing the resources/websites that I found. Organiser Girl has been looking for something to get her teeth into!
Every Monday morning, I log on to my pc at work and I catch up on email. Inevitably there are emails from the aliaNEWGRADs, plenty of which have the word Job ad in the subject. Of these say 20 emails, there will be jobs in NSW, QLD, VIC and if you are really lucky, there might be one job listed for South Australia. This is probably going to be a part time maternity leave position, and might only be a library assistant job, if that. Why is this? Why does it seem that there are NO jobs for librarians in Adelaide?
I’m going to start compiling a list of places that you might check for jobs…. keep your eyes on Library Jobs at lost.net.au. If you have any resources for job hunting Librarians, particularly if you are based in South Australia, please let me know.
Wow, I spent ages trying to figure out how to embed a youtube video…. finally, here’s a solution!