{"id":476,"date":"2006-12-07T19:45:08","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T01:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/476"},"modified":"2006-12-07T19:46:25","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T01:46:25","slug":"im-wicked-employed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/476","title":{"rendered":"I’m wicked employed!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve already sent out an overenthusiastic mass e-mail, shouting this to the rooftops, but I got a job!<\/p>\n

I’ll have my MLS<\/a> in a week, and I’ve accepted the youth services position with the Millicent Library<\/a> in Fairhaven, MA. Let’s talk about the job:<\/p>\n

1. Youth services means people age 0-18, so I get to do babies’ laptime<\/a>, as well as book discussion groups<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2. I’m the only YS staff, so I’ll have a lot of autonomy. The director is amazing, and I have the impression that she’ll be very supportive.<\/p>\n

3. This is what I’ve always wanted to do. Even when I was in high school, when I was asked the ever-popular “what do you want to be when you grow up”, I answered “I’d like to be a little old lady librarian (with tattoos), who sits in the children’s section waiting for school to let out.” I’m not little or old yet, but there’s not a lot I can do about it. Maybe watch more Golden Girls<\/a>.<\/p>\n

4. The library was built in 1893<\/a> by a steel magnate, in an Italian Renaissance style. That’s right. I’m going to work in a CASTLE.<\/p>\n

\"Millicent<\/a><\/p>\n

5. This is no ordinary castle. This is a haunted castle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

6. This is no ordinary haunted castle. This is a haunted castle by the sea. There is an ocean four blocks away.<\/p>\n

7. There is a yarn shop<\/a> two blocks away.<\/p>\n

I’m trying to remain realistic in my goals for starting this job. I know that my first impulse when I first get there will be to change a bunch of stuff, and that’s exactly the wrong thing to do. I’ve been trying to remind myself of that, and I know that I can spend all that energy in the first few months unpacking, exploring the area, and maybe – just maybe – using the expression “doughty old salt” with a straight face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve already sent out an overenthusiastic mass e-mail, shouting this to the rooftops, but I got a job! I’ll have my MLS in a week, and I’ve accepted the youth services position with the Millicent Library in Fairhaven, MA. Let’s talk about the job: 1. Youth services means people age 0-18, so I get to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-librarical"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}