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lauradi7dwboring job musings
I keep feeling the urge to get a job but being pretty scattered about finding one. I was skimming through the jobs available at the various Harvard libraries and found one that I thought I could do, based on the fact that I've sort of done it in the past. It's a one year full time job hauling old books (which we are warned might be dusty or moldy) off of shelves and setting them up with bar codes, plus some other general library duties. Thoughts:
1) I have done this, but for a couple of hours a week at a school library, staffed by people who were touchingly grateful for volunteers. How many handkerchiefs a day would a full time job of doing this require? What would it be like working for a real boss?
2) The qualifications for the volunteer version of this were basically being able to dust, peel & stick, zap with a hand-held bar code reader, and do shelf-reading. Harvard wants rather more capabilities, including some computer literacy (hard to escape that) and knowledge of a western European language, plus other stuff.
3) If I work 9-5, more or less, when will I tap dance?
I keep feeling the urge to get a job but being pretty scattered about finding one. I was skimming through the jobs available at the various Harvard libraries and found one that I thought I could do, based on the fact that I've sort of done it in the past. It's a one year full time job hauling old books (which we are warned might be dusty or moldy) off of shelves and setting them up with bar codes, plus some other general library duties. Thoughts:
1) I have done this, but for a couple of hours a week at a school library, staffed by people who were touchingly grateful for volunteers. How many handkerchiefs a day would a full time job of doing this require? What would it be like working for a real boss?
2) The qualifications for the volunteer version of this were basically being able to dust, peel & stick, zap with a hand-held bar code reader, and do shelf-reading. Harvard wants rather more capabilities, including some computer literacy (hard to escape that) and knowledge of a western European language, plus other stuff.
3) If I work 9-5, more or less, when will I tap dance?
