The AL makes me worried sometimes. What was I thinking wanting to get into this field! I don't think there is a profession so obsessed with itself. Or wait. How would I know. I want to be a librarian. I hardly ever look at other professionally driven blogs. Some comments on her last post made me cringe with regret:
"People in this field tend to meld the personal and professional. By the way, this could probably be the cause of why about 50% of libraries are toxic work environments."
"And what about the library field itself? The whole thing is falling apart faster than anyone wants to admit; although to be honest if the Gubberment said tomorrow they'd be taking all the funding out of libraries and putting it into Wikipedia I'd fall over laughing with schadenfreude."
"While management is management in any profession, somehow librarianship attracts that certain "je ne sais quoi" when it comes to management dysfunction."
"Actually, reading this blog has made me realize that I need to get out of librarianship. "
Oh, dear. What's a wannabe librarian to do?
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