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Re: Why do we stay with it?



As a colleague of mine once said "Archivists like reading other people's mail".
Well, that's part of it.  LOve the search, love the new acquisitions, love
talking to people who know what I'm talking about.
Louise Sandberg, Special Collections
Lawrence Public Library
Lawrence, MA

Daniel Sokolow wrote:

> My reasons for sticking with it?  Pretty much the same as everybody's - in
> my case, I dropped engineering like a hot potato after 1 year (whaddaya mean
> I need calculus?) and headed for history, something I did for fun anyway.
> Flash forward a few years, with graduate school coming and no real prospects
> (or burning interest) in being an academic, and the Archives world looked
> like a good fit - keep the history thing going while actually getting paid
> for it.
>
> I still think there's nothing better than that Eureka! moment of coming up
> with the obscure answer to the obscure question - the patron is usually
> delighted, and I always feel like I'm doing my job helping someone out.  Add
> to that the hot & juicy gossip about people long- (or not so long-) dead,
> which I for one always get a kick out of reading, and there's always
> something new to wake me up in the middle of the day.
>
> Most of all, it beats gettin' a real job.
>
> DS
>
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