Comments | mulaohu: I knew I became a librarian for the money

mulaohu

I knew I became a librarian for the money

Nov 19, 2006 23:33

I knew the way to make any money in this field was go to into administration, but shit, 800K ?

From the article:

At a news conference with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, library officials unveiled what they called an emergency campaign to raise $18 million in private money to deal with cuts in city and state financing and a multimillion-dollar ( Read more... )

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silver_chipmunk November 19 2006, 23:44:44 UTC

JUst wandering over here from Library Mofo to wonder if we possibly know each other. If your in YA, we probably do...

mulaohu November 19 2006, 23:54:33 UTC

Actually I don't work for NYPL (I take it you do?), nor am I a YA librarian, but hey, pleased to meet you.

silver_chipmunk November 20 2006, 00:19:56 UTC

Yup, for 20 years come January, for the sake of my sins or something. So then (looking at your interests list) are you in library school? Take my advice, and when you get out, don't come to NYPL. Just don't. It's not a happy place to be, just about everyone I know is counting time til they can retire, and morale just keeps getting worse.

kr1k November 20 2006, 00:56:25 UTC

I read that article today and thought about you. When you start making $800k a year, how about renting a small studio in Manhattan for me to use half the year?

anytime mulaohu November 20 2006, 01:03:42 UTC

Dude, by then $800k might pay for for an entire bathroom. With a sink too.