Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

I just made my first batch of bread away from home. It's warm and delicious and just like I remembered it.

I kind of want to do another poll, a "Whose real life name do you know" poll (readers and writers). Would that be fair game?

it might make me feel bad for the people whose names I don't know...

Hehe. I'm pretty sure I know a lot of people's names, and very few know mine.

Violet wrote:I have a job, but now I'm doing the, "Do I stay in Provo? Move north toward the job?" thing while also considering grad school. MLS? Integrated Marketing Communications? Not at all?

Move north, young woman!

I would say that an MLS can lead to a very specific career path that you are unable to pursue without the degree. Marketing, eh, more questionable. More info on what you want to do with them?

Violet wrote:I have a job, but now I'm doing the, "Do I stay in Provo? Move north toward the job?" thing while also considering grad school. MLS? Integrated Marketing Communications? Not at all?

MLS as in library science? Just be warned that the job market is terrible, so at a minimum don't go into a ton of debt for the degree.

Katya wrote:

Violet wrote:I have a job, but now I'm doing the, "Do I stay in Provo? Move north toward the job?" thing while also considering grad school. MLS? Integrated Marketing Communications? Not at all?

MLS as in library science? Just be warned that the job market is terrible, so at a minimum don't go into a ton of debt for the degree.

Katya wrote:(Although I wish they wouldn't repeat the myth about lots of jobs opening up as librarians retire. The ALA and other groups have been saying that for decades, and institutions keep cutting positions instead of rehiring.)

I keep siccing my boyfriend on all my friends who have gone into to this field to get straight talk. This is ... a little alarming? Any broad advice for someone interested in the techy side of things? Would information management be a more fruitful path?

Portia wrote:

Katya wrote:

Violet wrote:I have a job, but now I'm doing the, "Do I stay in Provo? Move north toward the job?" thing while also considering grad school. MLS? Integrated Marketing Communications? Not at all?

MLS as in library science? Just be warned that the job market is terrible, so at a minimum don't go into a ton of debt for the degree.

Katya wrote:(Although I wish they wouldn't repeat the myth about lots of jobs opening up as librarians retire. The ALA and other groups have been saying that for decades, and institutions keep cutting positions instead of rehiring.)

I keep siccing my boyfriend on all my friends who have gone into to this field to get straight talk. This is ... a little alarming? Any broad advice for someone interested in the techy side of things? Would information management be a more fruitful path?

Anyone with good programming or related skills will have a much easier time getting work (and I actually encourage everyone looking to go into any sort of library work to acquire at least some basic programming skills). Really, some library jobs are straight computer science jobs, they just pay worse than computer science jobs in industry.

And maybe I shouldn't be such a downer on the subject, but I'd just hate for someone to optimistically get into a ton of debt and then spend months looking for even a paraprofessional job. So, do your homework about the job market, don't get into a ton of debt, and remember that Napoleon Dynamite was right: "[Library search committees] only want [candidates] who have great skills."

Katya wrote:So, do your homework about the job market, don't get into a ton of debt, and remember that Napoleon Dynamite was right: "[Library search committees] only want [candidates] who have great skills."

Good life advice, in general. As you and I had the same major, I think that was something I thought about a lot (how to sell it as a skill and not my taste for Balzac and crêpe night).

Portia wrote:

Violet wrote:I have a job, but now I'm doing the, "Do I stay in Provo? Move north toward the job?" thing while also considering grad school. MLS? Integrated Marketing Communications? Not at all?

Move north, young woman!

I would say that an MLS can lead to a very specific career path that you are unable to pursue without the degree. Marketing, eh, more questionable. More info on what you want to do with them?

I may be contacting you after surveying the facebook groups you posted in the Answers I Liked thread. I'm leaning toward the Sugar House area at the moment.

I know what I want to do with both (and yes, Katya, library science—I've volunteered and worked in libraries since high school—thanks for the thoughts), and after applying for a number of jobs that could overlap the IMC degree with only a BA, I think I need a more analytical school experience for them to consider me. I still need to talk to people though about employment rates, starting salaries, and where graduates get jobs before I'm serious about it, but I'm thinking Northwestern.

my brother has declared himself as a post-feminist. *sigh

Whistler wrote:my brother has declared himself as a post-feminist. *sigh

What does that mean?

There has been so much rain in South Texas, which is great for ending our drought, but really makes walking my dog more difficult.

It rained so hard and fast that my apartment complex is flooded, and i don't own rain boots anymore.

Emiliana wrote:

Whistler wrote:my brother has declared himself as a post-feminist. *sigh

What does that mean?

Basically he thinks feminists are wrong. Here's a taste: "I do not believe that a 'patriarchy' has ever existed, as described by feminists. Certainly, the vast majority of leadership roles in history have been filled by men, but calling this 'patriarchy' implies (and feminists often state) that this is done to promote the well-being of men at the expense of women."

Whistler, I hate to be mean but....that's really, really dumb.

We are not in a post-ANYTHING society, people! Racism and sexism and all sorts of crappy -isms are still out there oppressing folks like me!

yes, I know. I think my brother is wrong, but if I argue with him about it, I don't think it will change his mind.

did your apartment get flooded D-:? that's scary.

That ... wow.

Whistler wrote:yes, I know. I think my brother is wrong, but if I argue with him about it, I don't think it will change his mind.

did your apartment get flooded D-:? that's scary.

Luckily, I am on the second floor. The rain appears to have stopped, so I need to walk my poor little dog, but he's going to be swimming in all the water.

We're totally a post lotsa things society.

-Britain
-agrarian
-modern
-secret
-industrial revolution
-it note
-deluvian
-lapsarian
-er child
-humous

Ok, wait, not that last one.

Marduk wrote:We're totally a post lotsa things society.

-Britain
-agrarian
-modern
-secret
-industrial revolution
-it note
-deluvian
-lapsarian
-er child
-humous

Ok, wait, not that last one.

:D