My snake doesn't like books

[nazgul_number_7]

I think my snake disapproves of books. I was letting her crawl around on my bookshelves and she pooped on my books. Again. This is the second time. I think there's some kind of commentary going on--she waits until she's on the books, and then just poos. Seriously Nagini, wtf? If you don't like books, I think we might be over

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[eruvadhril]

You're the third person I know, including myself, who's decided they want to study librarianing in the past couple of months. Must be catching.

I think Georgia sounds like awesome fun. It's also for a set time so you can drop it after it's done if you don't like it. And they give you money.

[nazgul_number_7]

It must be. I must say, I'd prefer to catch librarianing than I would... say, the flu. Much more preferable.

Georgia does sound like it would be fun. At the very least, it would get me the hell away from where I am now.

[sahiya]

it doesn't require as much... y'know, people-contact as teaching.

That depends entirely on the type of librarian you become. I have many librarians as friends, and for many of them, the job is basically customer service where the customers don't pay anything (you'd think this would make it less obnoxious, but my experience has been that the less people pay for a service, the more they think they can demand from it). There are library science degrees where you specialize in archival work and that sort of thing, but even then, depending on the job you get aftewards, it can involve a lot of contact with people. A friend of mine works for a historical society, for example, and spends most of her time leading tours and dealing with customer requests. Just something to think about

[nazgul_number_7]

Thanks for the two cents--they definitely gave me some stuff to think about regarding how much interpersonal interaction I'm willing to put up with.

I can deal with people all day as long as I can take off my work hat at the end of the day and be solitary if I want to. Compartmentalising, or something. I don't feel like I could do that with teaching--I'd always have to bring stuff home. I don't want to bring stuff home. I want to leave work mostly at the work place, and have my little cave of solitude to retire to at the end of the day. And with sort of the customer service thing, like in a library, it's a brief contact and the stakes are low. Y'know? You help the person, but if you mess up you're not totally affecting the rest of their life. That high stakes interaction over a long period of time is intimidating as hell.

But at this point I think I would go to Georgia and teach just to get the hell out of my grandparents' house. I'm going nuts in here. And being in a new place is cool.

[nazgul_number_7]

I speak approximately four words of Russian, three of which I learned off an episode of "Hogan's Heroes". And whatever the language is, it can't possibly be as bad as Chinese was. Yecch.

You're right: grad school isn't going to go away. And it may be better if I wait until the economy picks up--I did get rejected wholesale just a couple months ago because nobody has funding. It may actually be better if I wait for a bit, just so I don't spend hundreds of dollars on another bunch of rejections.

Thanks for the perspective--it helps.

[techie34]

Pellant is in Georgia....

[nazgul_number_7]

I did not know that. What's he doing there?

[techie34]

Teaching at the international school in tsibili, same idea as what he used to do in China and Afghanistan. I think he is principle and his wife is pretty involved too