First things first: Welcome to my reader in the Sultanate of Oman! I don't get too many readers from Muslim/Arab countries, but you're free to leave your opinions, good, bad or indifferent, in the comments section. Welcome, too, to Israel and to Mauritius! We're up to readers in 44 countries now. Keep on plugging in, keep on commenting!
This will be brief.
I'm 2.5 years out of Library School. I've submitted nearly 300 applications all over the country.
I can't even get a job in my adopted home town of Norristown, Pennsylvania. What added insult to injury is that the woman in charge of hiring for that hometown position, where I started my career with five years ago as a volunteer, sent me an impersonal form letter stating that others with "lot of experience" (sic) were considered ahead of me.
A few years ago I purchased a 250-count package of coffee filters. I remember joking at the time that if I didn't have a job by the end of the filters, I'd quit looking.
I'm not giving up yet. I'm not out of coffee filters...but the package is starting to look empty.
This will probably be the penultimate post, The last post on this blog will be entitled"Land of Hope and Glory", which as many in the English-speaking world will know as the opening line of the lyrics for Pomp and Circumstance March #1 by Edward Elgar, the ubiquitous graduation march. What I'm graduating to, who knows? Stay tuned...
*--Meredith Willson, from The Unsinkable Molly Brown, 1960.
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