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Re: Worst job in the company



I know exactly what you are talking about. Most of my job has to do with
reference work with pharmacy students and faculty and a small part with
archives.  When I try to tell my relatives what I do, they either look at me
really strange like I am an alien or they say something like, "so you must
like to read." Or, they will say, "so you must get to sit around and read
all day and play on the computer?"  I assure them that I do indeed use a
computer and read, but I read library science magazines and catalogs about
pharmacy books and search databases.  But even with all of that, it is
exciting because of the interesting people I deal with and the information I
find about drugs.

Barbara M. Pope, M.L.S.
Reference Librarian
O.J. Cloughly Alumni Library
St. Louis College of Pharmacy
4588 Parkview Place
St. Louis, MO 63110
Voice: +1 314-367-8700, ext. 1001
Fax:    +1 314-367-2784
Email:  bpope@mail.stlcop.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: Maria Clara Assuncao [mailto:massuncao@BN.PT]
Sent: 29 October, 2001 7:48 AM
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: Re: Worst job in the company


I teach in a course of librarian and archivist sciences and I allways tell
to my students that we get much fun in our profession.
They don's seem to believe at the beginning...
Nevertheless, it is impossible to work in library or archive if you don't
LOVE what you do.
Some people look at me as a kind of alien because I say I love my
profession.
MC

Maria Clara Assunção
Bibliotecária (Librarian)

Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal  (National Library of Portugal)
Centro de Estudos Musicológicos (Musicological Studies Center)

Tel./ph.: +351 21 798 20 16
e-mail: massuncao@bn.pt

"Sad period is when it is harder to break a prejudice than an atom" (Albert
Einstein)


> ----------
> De:   Ellee Louise Figi[SMTP:ellee@WAM.UMD.EDU]
> Responder a:  Ellee Louise Figi
> Enviado:      sexta-feira, 26 de Outubro de 2001 21:32
> Para:         ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Assunto:      Re: Worst job in the company
> 
> On a serious note:  This is an example of how archivists and our work is
> misunderstood by the public.
> 
> However, (on a much less serious note) if everybody knew how much fun we
> have at work, either we wouldn't get paid anymore or everybody'd want to
> be an archivist!  :)
> 
> 
> Ellee Figi
> 
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Mr Robert D. Shuster wrote:
> 
> > Just a bit of dialogue of interest to cheer you all as you head into the
> > weekend.  It is from a recent rerun of The Drew Carey Show.  Carey
> > plays a personnel manager in a department store
> >
> > Boss (who wants to punish an employee for being too assertive):
> > Carey, what's the worst job in the company?
> >
> > Carey (not even pausing for a second): Organizing the archives in the
> > sub basement.
> >
> > Boss: Excellent.
> >
> >
> >
> > Bob Shuster
> > BGC Archives
> >
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> >
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> >
> > Problems?  Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <rschmidt@lib.muohio.edu>
> >
> 
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