When I graduated with a BA in English six years ago, I immediately panicked. I needed a job! I interviewed everywhere I could and eventually landed with a company that I would stay with for nearly six years. I worked in their internet division double checking EVERYTHING that went on-line.
While I worked for them I realized that my dream job was actually being a librarian, specifically a children's librarian or young adult librarian. I remember being in my room and wondering why the heck I hadn't realized this sooner. I actually raced to the computer to see what school had a library program. Crazily enough, one of the few schools that have the program was the very school I got my BA in. Easy decision! I had of course JUST passed the deadline for applications.
I applied for the next semester, and just like that I was in! It seemed remarkably easy. I wrote a short essay, had people write recommendation letters, one from the company I was working for and then I was back in college. It wasn't easy, in just a few years it seemed like I forgot how much work college was. I had to learn coding and cataloging, and the technology? I had to know all the tech, I interviewed a reference librarian at my local library who told me that a librarian even has to know how to fix the copy machine if it breaks down.
After I first started Grad school, actual graduation seemed so far away. Suddenly it was right around the corner. I just had to write a MASSIVE research paper, something I had never done before. I had to create a survey and actually get people to take my survey, also apply for approval because there are rules for these things! I somehow survived and even got an A on my paper (Appeal Factor of Cover Art for Young Adults). Then I was all graduated!
Sadly, two weeks later my long term job let go half of the company.
Including me.
I got my master's degree just in time to be jobless. I had already been looking into becoming a librarian of course because: THE DREAM. Yet, I was kind of depending on the job for the short term. I did luck out though. I was an intern last summer at my local library and they had just begun interviews for a part-time librarian. I got hired! Tomorrow I begin my first official day.
I am so excited to be a librarian and get started on my career. Of course, I'm still looking for full time work, but I am VERY happy to say that I'm a librarian now. A year ago my life was so different, I was working full time and going to school part time. It kind of makes me wonder where I'll be a year from now. Hopefully working full time someplace, while still doing some days at the library that gave me my start!
I will try to keep this blog updated as much as I can. I'm starting some volunteer jobs next week, one for a library website and another for a literacy site so I may be busy. I LOVE being busy. A lot of this blog will be about job searching for full time Librarian work, but it will also be about what I do to keep myself busy in the mean time. I have a room full of books too, so there should be some book reviews too!
I promise the blog will be less chatty in the future, this is just my intro! Thanks for reading!
