Share Since I’ve got a number of entries in draft format that are more or less about the same topic (various statuses/commentary of The Great Job Hunt, 2010 ™), I thought it would be easier to write one entry in bullet form then pontificate endlessly on. This is how I roll. As I mentioned before, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Library Science’
KEEP CALM and LIBRARY ON #KCaLO
Share I recently became obsessed with the “KEEP CALM AND” campaigns popping up, parodies of the KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON British WWII campaign. After spending hours flipping through the Flickr group and Google images1, I noticed there seemed to be a KEEP CALM parody for just about everything EXCEPT for libraries. Libraries, regardless of [...]
Hire me or the pug gets it.
Share The closer my friend Jessica got to graduation from our alma mater, the more worried she got about not finding a job. Understandably, Jessica had been pimping herself out for six moths prior to graduation and had not so much as a phone interview yet. Jessica was my litmus stick in the world of [...]
So, You Want To Be A Librarian/Archivist: Job Hunt Part II: Do’s
Share In my last post, I ranted about the process – which is all fine and dandy because I’m sure that more that type of thing will pour forth from me as I continue on this job hunt. [Repeat after me: Student Loans Will Not Pay For Themselves.] But what I thought about on my [...]
So, You Want To Be A Librarian/Archivist: The Job Hunt (Possibly Part I)
Share In the list of ridiculous things that I consider to be dehumanizing, job hunting is one of them. And by ridiculous I mean that I, myself, find this process ridiculous because the level of bullshit and hoop jumping and dehumanizing because I’m beyond irritated that we, the applicants, get judged by missed punctuation and [...]
30 something. Punk rock librarian and archivist. Sassy. Waffle. Pug owner. World traveler. Pierced.
Tattooed. Tall. Music and book lover. Discriminating Guinness tasters. Aging, alternative hipster. Eco-conscious. Geek. Equally in love with James Bond and Jane Austen.
