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[Anonymous No.13936380]

How can i become a librarian

[Anonymous No.13936385]

>>13936380
Oh God, becoming a librarian was not worth it.

[Anonymous No.13936393]

>>13936385
im 22 with a degree and i need help

[Anonymous No.13936398]

I work for a library and it is very depressing, and often suicide appears to be more attractive than working in this job. One might imagine that working in a library entails having a quiet, spacious office in which to organize the library's inner layout, making sure books are ordered and delivered on a timely basis, overseeing new technology being implemented and so forth. I am 40 years old. For thirteen years now I have stood and sat at the front desk of a large urban library whose most loyal denizens are the homeless and the clinically insane. Schizophrenics are drawn here like moths to a flame. Alcoholics come here to snooze and disrupt. Niggers crowd the aisles and spread their toxic subhuman behaviour. I thought I would be advising enthusiastic kids what to read next, or helping elderly peasants become introduced to the world of literature in order to enjoy their final years thanks to the offerings of high culture. Instead I stand silently and alone as my miserable colleagues discuss their boring husbands or browse facebook or holidays websites to look out for the cheapest package deals. I am forced to replace urine-stained seat cushions. Forced to "kindly" "usher" out the bums who vomit on themselves and the constantly wide-eyed middle-aged women who start to scream and talk gibberish at a rapid pace if I approach them and tell them we are closing up. What a pathetic life I lead. I imagined I would be like Larkin, like Borges, like the kind of refined, reserved kind of man whose job allows him an air of mystique and glum erudition. Instead I am no better than a janitor who has found himself at the till of a supermarket. In 2008 I had a brief sexual affair with a student girl who spent a month here as part of her training to become a library. We screwed in the storage room several times a day. It was purely physical on her part but deeply emotional on mine. Eventually she realized she didn't want this kind of job and admitted she felt sorry for me and thought fucking me would make me less depressed and her less experienced. She is now working for a marketing company and is earning more than me despite being a member of a different generation. Please kill me. Please. Please. Please God let this be the day I am struck by a truck on my lonesome drive home. Let this be the night the niggers break into my home and garrote me as I lay sleepless staring silently toward the ceiling.

[Anonymous No.13936410]

>>13936398
dilate

[Anonymous No.13936426]

>>13936398
Holy shit what a good copypasta, I was fucking moved
>I am no better than a janitor
Hahahaha beautiful

[Anonymous No.13936438]

>>13936398
>Let this be the night the niggers break into my home and garrote me as I lay sleepless staring silently toward the ceiling.

[Anonymous No.13936445]

>>13936398
Dear racist loser, kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.13936450]

>>13936445
Grow up

[Anonymous No.13936454]

>>13936398
there goes the thread lol

[Anonymous No.13936456]

TOP KEKS

[Anonymous No.13936460]

>>13936398
Holy shit

[Anonymous No.13936471]

If you wanna connect people to books, you should be an amazon delivery driver, anon. If you’re seeking to have your taste fawned over by normies and your counsel sought, go find a small bookstore to work at and act like an asshole until the elderly couple who lives above it and has owned it for decades fires you for poor customer service. If you want to clean up after homeless people, work at a shelter.

[Anonymous No.13936475]

>>13936471
I want to do none of those

[Anonymous No.13936476]

>>13936398
>Schizophrenics are drawn here like moths to a flame. Alcoholics come here to snooze and disrupt. Niggers crowd the aisles and spread their toxic subhuman behaviour.
TOP KEKS

[Anonymous No.13936491]

>>13936475
What about being a librarian appeals to you, then? You’re not Borges or Bataille, anon. You’re just a guy who wants to have a simple quiet job where you’re around books but there’s no funding for public libraries, and university libraries aren’t going to hire someone without a research focus and advanced degree.

[Anonymous No.13936501]

>>13936491
I'm pretty sure the librarians at my college were just librarians. I don't really care about larping as an author I know I'm not human. I just want to be a librarian.

[Anonymous No.13936549]

>>13936380
If you want anything resembling a career you're going to have to get an MLIS. Be forewarned, as you you're sucess will be arbitrated by 45+ year old progressive liberal white women who's research foci include such bangers as "happiness and kindenss in libraries". I just got my ass torn asunder in recent information design assessment for "being too complicated" (I made use of Hjorland and Saussure). If you want to avoid this I recommend going into archives and records.

[Anonymous No.13936574]

>>13936549
you have to research to be a librarian? that seems complete bullshit. research the boogers kept in all the books like what the fuck is there to talk about? that sounds worse and more full of platitudes than social science research

[Anonymous No.13936646]

>>13936398
This was beautiful Anon, when you do inevitably hang yourself at least remember that you made a few people on the internet smile before slipping into lady death's sweet embrace.

[Anonymous No.13936674]

Reading this thread has made me realize that i should just remain neet.

[Anonymous No.13936759]

>>13936674
Yeah, I was considering a degree in bibliotecology or library sciences; whatever the fuck it's called. But the more I delve into it the more despair I feel about it.

[Anonymous No.13936785]

>>13936759
I used to work for a fairly big library system (30 branches)

you don't need a masters or even a bachelors to work at a library as a clerk. If you have a college degree you can get a job as a library assistant (essential a librarian without a masters). Typically libraries are unionized and to get a foot in the door you will probably need to work as a substitute (you just fill in when needed and get called in when there is an emergency or someone calls in sick) and from there you can get a more permanent position. Or just become a page, its a simple job but you can listen to music/podcast/audiobooks while you do it.

[Anonymous No.13936800]

>>13936574

Not him but he clearly distinguished between having "a real career path" and "merely having a job as a librarian", which is literally what you (assuming you're the OP) asked for at first. He didn't say that you couldn't just up-and-get a job as a librarian, he just suggested certain educational tracks.

He also described the kinds of research that librarians actually, usually do in their formal education as piss-easy, insubstantial women's make-work, so you shouldn't be intimidated by the idea (of doing such yourself) just because you apparently hate the idea of education (even if it's mere low-standards credentialing) despite at the same time wanting to be a librarian, as also evidenced by your booger comment (someone who's actually read a bit or even held a job of any kind for a few years would be able to imagine, say, that statistics are an important part of the job-of being a librarian). The other guy also suggested a more "masculine" speciality.

[Anonymous No.13936823]

>>13936800
there is also a big difference between working for your local library, working in a specific department(history, art, etc.) for a large library, and working in a university or college library.

local library you are just going to be helping poor, old, or dumb people with computers and the internet and telling kids to shut up. Working in a specific department at a big library is ideal if you don't feel like working hard ever and digging deep into esoteric knowledge of a subject that you will probably never use.

[Anonymous No.13936824]

>>13936785
Why did you quit?

[Anonymous No.13936831]

>>13936823
>Working in a specific department at a big library is ideal if you don't feel like working hard ever and digging deep into esoteric knowledge of a subject that you will probably never use.
Living the dream

[Anonymous No.13937190]

>>13936398
this was great

[Anonymous No.13937199]

>>13936380
Get a degree in library science. A degree in English isn't enough anymore

[Anonymous No.13937207]

>>13936398
Is this pasta? If not, holy shit

[Anonymous No.13937229]

>>13937207
I revived it from the archive. This is only the third time this is posted, I think, or maybe fourth. Let's make it a pasta, shall we?

[Anonymous No.13937249]

>>13937229
The thing about it is that it's true though. Unless you are a librarian at a university helping with research then you're a librarian at a public library. The only people that go there are homeless people and poor blacks using the computers. It's a miserable existence

[Anonymous No.13937412]

>>13936380
This guy Garrett grew up and definitely got more attractive. He's still getting friendzoned in instagram comments, but he was able to turn it around.
The chick in the video, Alexa, started dating the QB of her high school football team. You can't make this shit up. Anyway, she went to Duke and acted in some shitty movies and wants to go to med school.

[Anonymous No.13937419]

>>13936380
Shoot up a school

[Anonymous No.13937460]

>>13936398
Haven't chuckled this hard at a post in a while.

[Anonymous No.13937470]

>>13936380
You need a vagina

[Anonymous No.13937520]

oh shit maybe I shouldn't become a librarian idk
there are no jobs that look particularly attractive, and I don't even give a shit about money, I just need enough to be self-sufficient and consistently fed

[Anonymous No.13937687]

>>13936823

I wrote the reponse you replied to, and I've started engaging with the local library branch, its downtown branch (the only place that actually has anything of value). Great stacks, useful stuff in several areas. Then some nigger came in and started yelling quite violently, I never saw him, only heard him - some middle-aged white librarian moved abruptly from one staff-only area to the next, while I moved position to deal with whatever niggerdom might be coming. Security provisionally limited the nigger but the same nigger nigged in exactly the same way (with a weaker voice) about an hour later. So it was that I finished my copy of Cioran's Fall Into Time, while lounging in the library. Remarkably my bicycle wasn't stolen the entire time (I positioned it in such a way that I could take a look from the high window ever so often, and paced as I read).

[Anonymous No.13937693]

archives > libraries

[Anonymous No.13937728]

>>13936398
kino

[Anonymous No.13937743]

>>13936398
>Please God let this be the day I am struck by a truck on my lonesome drive home. Let this be the night the niggers break into my home and garrote me as I lay sleepless staring silently toward the ceiling.
Holy fucking shit thanks for that laugh, I needed that today

[Anonymous No.13937763]

>>13936398
oh dear

[Anonymous No.13938067]

you gotta dance for the kids bro

[Anonymous No.13938116]

>>13936574
liberals and libertarians are gaga over their diploma. they even require a diploma to wipe floors

[Anonymous No.13938740]

>>13936398
epic

[Anonymous No.13940012]

>>13936445
shut it, nigger

[Anonymous No.13940030]

>>13936398
put me in the screencap

[Anonymous No.13940273]

>>13936398
u good bruh?

[Anonymous No.13940275]

>>13936398
based

[Anonymous No.13940277]

>>13936398
*ting*
I utterly despise libraries and the #SaveOurLibraries shenanigans you find infested in the internet, namely on the site Reddit.com. These are mere AstroTurfing campaigns to make people feel good about backing a cause which receives little to no opposition, as "surely", they think, "surely, who could be against libraries?".
This narrative couldn't be as morally wrong as it obsolete.

Libraries are worthless institutions, occupied by beggars, homeless, sex offenders, 'but alas', sayeth the Librarian, "think of the children!" Alright then, let's take a tally of these children, shall we? These snot-nosed little brats are taken to the library by their parents who think their bastard progeny, in their vernacular, 'is the next Einstein'. Wrong Mr. Mom and Ms. Dad, your little Johnny and yourselves included, yes, the whole lot of you, are pseuds.

Indubitably, you could give every child an e-reader loaded with enough books to last their lifetime, for a fraction of the price to maintain community library, yielding much greater dividends, as the depth and scope of the material will far exceed the "My friend has two dads" tier drivel that will infect their minds as maggots a carcass until there is nothing left. Liberté, égalité, fraternité, themes for the children, and pop-books for Mom and Dad, like Michelle Obama's recent book. Young Adult selection abounds too, lest we forget. To what end? The books, are limited to convey tepid neoliberal viewpoints that support the misappropriation of limited societal resources The only libraries of worth are substantially large university/city libraries.

DISBAND,
DEFUND,
DECONSTRUCT LIBRARIES

[Anonymous No.13940639]

>>13936380
Take an Information Competency class at a community college and get started

[Anonymous No.13941927]

>>13936380
>>13937199
It's not? Since when did that change? How much more effort does it take to get a library science degree?

[Anonymous No.13941939]

>>13941927
>library science degree
Is that what they call janitor's licenses these days?

[Anonymous No.13941956]

>>13936398
too true to be funny

[Anonymous No.13943012]

people on this site are so goddamn retarded but i don’t have any other fucking friends

[Anonymous No.13944137]

>>13936445
not racist, just don't like 'em

[Anonymous No.13945113]

>>13936398
put me on screencap pls thx no thx

[Anonymous No.13945338]

Libraries should be private institutions

[Anonymous No.13945339]

If I had the money I'd start a small but very nice and aesthetic vibey private library
Fuck government honestly

[Anonymous No.13945454]

>>13936398
Try to get in with a university library

[Anonymous No.13945961]

>>13936398
That is exaclty my kind of cynical tragic comedy. Your life has purpose: Entertain me in these five minutes.
Your writing style is cool, can I ask in which city your library is? I thought about doing it as kind of a part time job.
Also don't be such a depressed fag, work out and better yourself on a surface level so that you might find some milfs for brief love affairs, and find some hobbies instead on focusing on what you wanted but are missing.

[Anonymous No.13946002]

You need a Master of Information or a Master of Library Science. But don't bother.

[Anonymous No.13947211]

>>13936380
by giving me a library card
chop chop
I'm waiting, government servant

[Anonymous No.13947236]

>>13936398

[Anonymous No.13947273]

>>13936398
Damn.

Put me in the screencap for the love of God.

[Anonymous No.13947276]

>>13936398
>spent a month here as part of her training to become a library
Underrated

[Anonymous No.13947282]

>>13936445
Stfu

[Anonymous No.13948369]

>>13936398

[Anonymous No.13948387]

>>13941956
i did a joker laugh

[Anonymous No.13948393]

>>13940012
>shut it, nigger

unironically good prose

[Anonymous No.13948404]

>>13936398
top tier prose
edit out the racism and talk to LitQuarterly to have it published

[Anonymous No.13948471]

I work in a pretty chill Library with decent starting pay for non degree required position. I work in the districts call center and just chill most of the time. There are some times where it gets busy but that isn't common. I work in a branch but we have a small office which allows me to avoid the (rare occurrence) degeneracy that walks in from the streets. There are several cuties that work here and we even have a cafe which gives us free coffee. Regularly get free food and paid training. Allows me a lot of time to read and or do almost whatever I want as long as I am able to man the phones at the same time.

[Anonymous No.13950436]

>>13948471
how do i get a job this comfy

[Anonymous No.13950461]

>>13950436
>>13948471
I had a similar situation at a rehab center. I played guitar a lot behind the reception desk. But it got old because newly sober addicts are horrifically needy and stupid as fuck. After a year sober they become full blown human beings again but christ that first year they just suck so hard.