A recent (April 6) article by Marty Nemko at www. kiplinger.com is titled "7 Great Careers for 2007". Along with four health occupations (orthodontist, optometrist, audiologist, and physician assistant) are the diverse jobs of higher education admininstrator, landscape architect, and LIBRARIAN. Nemko says, "Forget about the image of a librarian as mousy bookworm. Today's librarian is a high-tech information sleuth, a master of mining cool databases (well beyond Google) to unearth the desired nuggets. Plus you'll probably have regular hours and good job security."
We appreciate the listing, but please notice he doesn't mention the high levels of compensation for librarians as he does for some of the other careers on his list. Believe me, no one chooses this profession to get rich!
Also off the mark is his remark about job security. While this used to be true, many municipalities are strapped by rising costs and are cutting jobs as evidenced right here in Dover if you saw last night's headlines in Foster's Daily Democrat. A planned reduction-in-force here will see us lose a 40 hour position in our Children's Room next month.
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Man, that is some bad news! As a librarian myself, that hits pretty hard. Any chance of budget increase in the future?
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