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Claire's most promising career path currently will be working for the Federal government. They actually hire the most ML&IS degree holders. I read that while looking into a Masters program. But they live in a heavy-population area: Eastern Mass. The secondary most promising career path is in Academia. I also read there are more colleges per square mile in Mass. than any other state. *somebody* will need a librarian within a few years.
Why do I get the feeling you're really in the field irl? Haha :)
DROID 06 WENT TO LIBRARY ONCE. NOT REALIZE BOOKS ARE SO FRAGILE. DROID 06 VERY SORRY ABOUT THAT.
There are all kinds of weird little jobs you can do with a library degree: indexing books, cataloging things other than books (fabric samples, sea shells, beetles, origami, designs, maps, et cetera), putting archives in order, and business document management come to mind. The problem is that they, too, are most easily found in big cities. In the 18th century, you could get a job cataloging a rich person's private library, have an affair with their spouse or offspring, and then be shot or, in out-of-the-way areas, hanged. Maybe Claire could do that.
I read from Kevin Kelly that after he sold Wired magazine and got rich (at least by normal-people standards) the main change he made in his life was to hire a full-time personal research librarian to find stuff out for him. Life goals, man.
Looking forward to this arc. Got a few librarians in my life. And for those who are optimistic, think about how well we fund libraries in this country…
Claire, Clinton is reaching out to you. Even in good financial times, gaining employment (especially in a field you are passionate about) is not easy. Don't waste this opportunity!
Calling it now: Claire will get a job in CoD. Not having to look like a librarian will let out a little more of her love of the punk aesthetic.
Claire, seriously, I know that he can be a bit of a brat and that you've never liked him as much as much as most people would assume siblings should like each other but he IS trying to help. Denial really does nothing to help in these circumstances! IMO, Jeph using the infamous 'This is fine' meme in the footer text is clearly foreshadowing that things are NOT going to be fine. Claire is in for a struggle to find her way post-graduation (possibly because she's deliberately not thinking about it).
She's still got a better shot than some of the others with college degrees. At least she's willing to start at the bottom of her career tier.
But what if she never gets a job and her education turns out to be worthless and she will have to sell dirty limricks for a living and never be allowed into a library again and an alligator bites her body in two... OMG, WHAT IF ALIGATORS???!!!
*Hands Bagge a brown paper bag* Breathe deeply into this.
Oh no, Martie is going to have to decide if he's going to move with Claire to her dream librarian job. He's already stepped down as the protagonist, so this is a smooth exit/justification for him to appear less or to introduce a new location. I think he'll propose first as he doesn't want it to be his last move all over again.
She could get a local librarian job, fixing that issue. Having him and her move farther away would be a major change in the small QC world... which might be something Jeph wants to try. Interesting thoughts. Yes, it's also interesting how Marty has gone from "depressed and alone" to surrounded with friends. I could really use some of that in my life.
Speaking of libraries: best library you’ve been in? For me, there is a private library on the University of Missouri - Kansas City called Linda Hall Library. Formerly a swanky residence, and it shows. It’s a science and technology library which I understand is kinda unusual.
NYPL Main Branch, 42nd and Fifth. Above the door, a quote from Milton's Areopagitica: "A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit imbalmd and treasurd up on purpose to a life beyond life.” To the left, a quote from Daniel Webster "On the diffusion of education among the people rests the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions." On the sidewalk along 41st street, among many other quotations, one from E.B. White, “I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.” Out front, two giant stone lions, Patience and Fortitude. Sometimes late at night they can be seen playing with a censor, sitting solemnly in the middle of Fifth Avenue, the censor writhing under a paw. One will let him go, and he will run a little way, and then the other will pounce on him. The library is covered with the names of millionaire donors, which looks vulgar, and is, but they are like gang graffiti. They convey "These are our protectors. Try to censor our collection at your peril." It is said that Lenox, Astor, and Tilden are entombed behind the marble slabs bearing their names, and when the library is in peril, emerge, hideously decayed but impeccably dressed, bearing walking sticks that wither all whom they touch, but I have not seen this personally. Most of the books are kept underneath Bryant Park, behind the library, in climate-controlled closed stacks. They used to be fetched and replaced by pages, some of whom wore roller skates to move more quickly along the aisles. Now they are fetched by an enormous sorting machine which incorporates the roller skate wheels and nervous systems of some of the more dedicated pages. One whole wing is empty stacks, which had been built open to the air to prevent mold, and so could not be climate controlled to slow high-acid paper's deterioration. They could not be safely converted to any other purpose, because the steel shelves themselves help support the building. The old stacks are haunted by ghost librarians, formerly in great distress at the empty shelves, but now happily set to tending a growing collection of bibliographic ghosts, books that appear in bibliographies but exist nowhere else. Across from the main reading room is an exhibition hall in which there is a painting of blind Milton being read to in Greek or Hebrew by his daughters, who understood neither language. As might be expected, they escape from the picture whenever possible and carry on wantonly with various gods and grotesque figures carved and painted about the library.
...what does Clinton do for a living again? Is he still in school?
He was studying AI as recently as two years ago in real time, which is I think last week in the QCverse?
Claire is adorable no matter what she does
The claire cuteness levels continue to rise
My mom worked in a library. Once she had her masters in Library Sciences she just got promoted to be a Librarian in the Library she already worked in. I'd think that since Claire already works in a library she's sitting pretty.
Claire doesn't work in a library, present tense. She had a summer internship which is now over.
HA! My comment from yesterday seems to have been reflected in Jeph's alt text today! HUZZAH 😆
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If this arc ends with Claire’s dreams getting crushed, we riot.
Torches on the Left. Pitchforks on the right.