Everyone thinks that if their son or daughter goes to law school, their ticket is punched.

Sure, if you want to be a low level paralegal somewhere making less than an entry level librarian.

You want a good job coming out of law school, your daddy better be a partner at a firm or you better have some really good political connections.

If not, you will be eating mac-n-chez once a day.

Nothing against anything you said, I just hate ALA’s PR machine a lot.

But I was 21, no practical experience, liked books and there were shortages!

Do you know how to read? Obviously not becuase I said I DID NOT LIKE CORPORATIONS BUT SAID THEY WERE JUST A NECESSARY EVIL! Also, I am not a Republican–I am a conservative independant, so quit being a sheep and mindlessly sticking to a party system. I am not a Bush suuporter, either. Though I do commend him for not cowtowing to his enemies because he at least knew you could not sit down and talk things over. As the old saying, “when the going gets tough, the tough get going”. I am no traitor. I just know that you and many others were duped into voting for a fraud–mmmm mmmm mmmm Barack Hussain Obama.

Your comments concerning corporations are spoken like a true lapdog of the Republican/Conservatives/Corporations. Like all lapdogs you hope that faithfully serving your corporate masters will some day allow you to be one of them. I’ve got news for you: you never will be one of them. The greatest trick the Republican/Conservatives/Corporations have played was convincing the middle class that what is good for rich Republican/Conservatives/Corporations is good for the middle class. In reality they don’t want a middle class, they want rich people like them and the poor working class. They want a compliant working poor class because somebody has to do the work to keep them rich.

And regarding your comment about Obama, when Bush was president, it was considered treason to criticize the president during times of war. So, are you a traitor? Or is it only treason depending on who the president is?

I have an MLS, but my official title is “Assistant Librarian.” I work in a small public library. There are only two full-time Librarians on staff here. Just about everybody else who works at my library is part-time, except the head of the children’s library and the head of circ. The city has a hiring freeze in effect due to the economy. I know I’m lucky to have a job, but that is the way the city wants it. People who are in a bad situation and feel lucky to have a job don’t rock the boat and don’t make waves.

Full-time librarian jobs requiring an MLS have seem to have dried up in the area that I live. The few that have opened up are the variety of: 1. part time, 2. no benefits, 3. lots of experience required, 4. low pay.

Believe me, I would kill to work in an academic library. But the librarians in academic libraries around here have a death grip on their jobs, as they should.

Put down your bong and get out of the 60s.

I do not like corporation either, but I also admit and realize that they are necessary evils. When a business is successful, they create jobs because why? They are making money because they are growing! Duh! Small businesses do not change things, and for you to think that owners of small businesses are not greedy, step all over people and competitors to make money, and never treat their employees like crap you are badly mistaken. I can tell you voted for Obama, a Kenyan who stole the election from the American people.