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you can say "chimoora" instead of "cow of tailed snake" if you want. its a good pun.​


i ramble about aerospace sometimes
I take rocket photos and you can see them @aWildLupi


I have a terminal case of bovine pungiform encephalopathy, the bovine puns are cowmpulsory


they/them/moo where "moo" stands in for "you" or where it's funny, like "how are moo today, Lupi?" or "dancing with mooself"



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in reply to @spiders's post:

ive considered it!!!! i think being a teacher would kill me instantly and im too dumb for grad school research/"scientist" type shit because i just like plants and want them to be my friends and im pretty sure doing that stuff is like a slightly more plausible version of being an astronaut anyways, something only a select few would ever get to do

i felt kind of like that before i started grad school too. although it sounds like it varies a lot by program, at least from my experience, it's kinda just another thing you do. reading and very methodical writing and maybe some studies. It feels a lot like "hey, everyone gatekeeping this really exaggerated how smart you need to be." it's a lot of work for little money though

tbh this is another field like education where its tempting, except i would have to go deeply in debt at expensive schools for years of my life;

and also, i would assume from what little i've heard, that library science is marginally less crushing and abusive than the 60+ hour workweeks and toxic all-encompassing work environment of being a public school teacher, but i've also heard alot that its kinda an extremely difficult field to find a job in where even if you make it thru the school programs, afterwards there's a very low ratio of jobs to ppl looking for jobs

maybe i am conflating librarian jobs with some wider job market for library science graduates tho. but the point being it just feels like it has alot of barriers to entry.

You don't necessarily have to be a librarian to be a library worker. For instance, you could be a library assistant who shelves and processes books for circulation. Or a cataloging technician who does data entry and processing behind the scenes. My library system has tons of ND people at all levels in all sorts of positions from being a middle manager to librarians to working the sorting the machine at the warehouse routing books in transit.

Urban library systems and large universities are often hiring for library assistants and it usually just requires a high school education and proving that you can alphabetize, use a computer, and get through a very basic customer service transaction without saying a slur.

If you do go the MLIS route there's jobs besides Librarian and Archivist you can get in theory but yes it's a lot of debt and due to the jobs ratio you typically have to move to find work. Most people do find a job in their first year out of grad school it's just not usually where you already live. But it's also a field where the job title Librarian or Archivist can encompass vastly different job duties depending on the type of library and the department. You could be basically a social worker and have all gruelling the pink collar trauma of a teacher.... Or you could work behind the scenes cataloging things for OCLC and never speak to another human you're just collecting $80k a year creating MARC records.... Or you could be a materials selector behind the scenes making spreadsheets of magazines and dealing with vendor contracts..... Or you could work at a university helping scientists find relevant articles to their research during hour long deep reference appointments... Or be the "digital scholarship librarian" doing high brow nonsense nobody can explain... Or you could be a corporate librarian helping McDonald's do corporate espionage (this is real). Or a private librarian buying books for a giant room on someone's personal estate which they never use anyway.

It's quite diverse.... But yes it's a lot of debt

woah, thank u for so much information.

i didnt even know there was such a thing as a library assisstant, let alone that you DON'T generally need to have a big scary degree to get such a job. its the kind of thing that honestly sounds kind of fucking great as a line of work.

the stuff about library sciences jobs beyond librarian is pretty interesting too, tho i definitely think that i probably would't actually be able to handle going back to college, as much as i think about it sometimes.

yeah most people think of anyone who works at a library as "a librarian" but actually there's usually only one to three librarians at your typical neighborhood library. the librarians run programming, buy books for the collection, weed old books from the collection, decide how to organize things, decide how something is listed in the catalog etc. but the people actually doing the shelving, checking out books to people, processing returns, sending out holds, etc. are the library assistants and make up the bulk of the work force.

as an autistic person extremely afraid of the concept of work, currently going wildly into debt at the opportunity to study library science, seeing this comment makes me... cautiously optimistic!

Is it particularly well suited to ND people? I'm not sure but there sure are a fuck ton of autistic people working for my library system most of whom didn't realize it until after they'd already been hired at a library