Why working as a librarian is the perfect job:
1.
Because you practically live with the
elders, nay, with the ancients. You get to learn from them every day, if you
care to. And from the new entries, too.
2.
Because books are silent. They only want
to be placed where they belong after they have travelled.
3.
Because you hardly need a social life as
you already have it, whether you like it or not. So you had better like it!
4.
Because you stay fit. Placing a lot of
books in lots of different places on the shelves takes energy and, sometimes,
muscles. Not to mention climbing a three-meter long ladder to reach the upper
shelf…
5.
Because the reader is a person with a
mission, and that mission becomes yours, too. Situational awareness is
required. Sometimes you get about 5 to 10 persons at a time, so this may become
a roller-coaster. In your mind, of course. But when you get down from the
mind-blowing machine, you know you have won several battles in a row. They are
fighters and you know that “ammo” will not be lost.
6.
Because you never get bored, unless you
like boredom.
7.
Because you get to know all walks of
life and people of all ages, too. And learn from them. Humans need not express
their humanity all the time. But when you give them a good book, they cling to
it and then they cling to you. Remember the tree of life from the Avatar movie? You connect people to the
tree of knowledge. And you are there to see it and feel it.
And there is that
feeling that always comes around…
8.
Because you are always seen as a romantic
figure, in spite of your determination to destroy this myth.
9.
Generations will come and slowly go and
you are still there. Like a big stone in the middle of the river. When they hit
you, you had better be sure they hit hard, keep them coming. Never hope that
they will remember you. But when it happens, there is joy, sheer joy, and that
is what keeps you going. You stay young as long as you like by simply doing
this job.
10.
Because people greet you, smile at you
on the street, as you walk by them. You become a part of their lives. This
simple thought might have occurred to them: “this person did something for me”.
11.
You tend to be humble as you learn that
the flood of information pouring in is overwhelming.
But you love books and
fight to keep them alive.
12. Because every now and again you get to
meet famous people but in the meantime you hope, deep in your heart, that you
will help some people around you to be famous. Sometime soon…
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