Re: Do you enjoy your job?
What do you do? Librarian/archivist
Where did you graduate? Masters from Rutgers (undergrad unimportant)
GPA? Don't know. Mostly A's, some B's.
What degree did you earn? Master's in Library and Info Science
starting salary and current salary? Started at 32K in 2001. Now would be earning about 40K if I was full time.
And the most inportant, Do you enjoy your job?
Hmm. Well. Yes, I do, mostly. I work two part time jobs. One as a reference librarian, which is a lot of one-on-one teaching and also classroom teaching. That job is really tiring but rewarding and fun. At least once every shift somebody says to me, "wow, nobody's ever explained that to me before. That's going to help me so much with all my assignments." I feel like I'm making a big difference in people's lives.
Other part time job: Archivist and cataloger. Work with historical documents. Good coworkers, interesting work, very flexible, but sh***y working conditions and huge evil beuroctatic university.
Would recommend to anyone who wanted a relatively low-stress but low-paying job. You won't get rich, esp since you need a master's degree to be a librarian and the salaries are much much lower than the typical business major makes right out of college.
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