Librarians come with almost as many titles as books, and they don’t all work in libraries.
“So what do you do for a living?” she asked. pushing her comb through my dampened hair. It was an innocent question from a hair stylist, who by all outward appearances, seemed to be innocent herself.
I know it’s one of the first questions we all ask when we meet people, but I absolutely hate getting this question; I’m never sure how I want to answer it. Granted, they might think that all librarians do is sit at a desk and check out books, but at least they know where we work and they generally have a healthy fear of our amazing “shh-ing” abilities. However when I say I’m a librarian, I find myself having to go out of my way to answer the inevitable follow-up question, “What library do you work at?”
Here’s the thing. I don’t work at a library.
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