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[per_simmon]

The thing about archiving is that you have to have a particular type of personality to really do it for the long term. Like sales- if you can't easily approach people and if you can't turn on being personable and pleasant then you can't really do sales. Maybe you'll find a boss to prop you up behind a counter for a while, but they will eventually catch on. Waitressing, too. Cataloguing requires a neat and tidy mind- not a number crunching but rather a number-remembering mind. You've noticed a slip-up in one of the digital file cards? You need to know how far back it goes and looking through each file will take forever. Quick, serially, where does the problem begin? You also need to be able to do the same action over and over (and over) again. Is there some correlation between people who catalogue and people who knit? Somehow I don't think there will ever be grant money for that particular study. Being able to switch between languages easily is a plus, and also (judging by the interns we've had in the department) having the personality and patience of a soybean.

I can do this work. And paying the bills is paying the bills. It's just, yanno. A GIANT PAIN IN THE ASS WHY AM I NOT OUTSIDE 
SOMEWHERE IN THE GREAT OUTDOORS CLIMBING TREES AND FARTING WITH IMPUNITY OR SIMILAR.

Seriously.