Using My Brain
It's no secret that the job I've settled for does not challenge me intellectually. On a bright note, it was recently decided that the dozens of boxes of weeded items coming in from thirteen branches each Thursday, needing to be unboxed, taken out of inventory, and schlepped over on wheeled carts to the book sale area, will be handled in a more efficient way after the move back to our renovated main branch. They will be taken out of inventory at the branches and delivered directly to the book sale area, skipping me! This means that a job that had been about half grunt work and half office manager with a touch of graphic designer thrown in will now be only about ten percent getting dirty with boxes of books and heavy lifting. Hooray! In this job, there are many perks. For one, public library positions are historically pretty secure and stable. I love my team of four managers; I assist each of the collection managers (our collection is divided among them into adult fiction, adult ...
