Public Libraries are very popular with the public, but they are commonly underfunded and the jobs are aggressively fought over, mostly by women, some of whom are the sort who do not like men at all and are allowed to be militant with their beliefs without fear of termination. This sort of problem is not one I can solve. This is unfortunate, but its how things are. Childrens libraries are usually run by mothers with young children, which is fine. Teenagers would be better served by people like me, but the people who hire librarians would never believe the revolutionary idea of talking to teenagers like adults rather than condescending at them like children. So people like me are never hired to run YA libraries and teenagers avoid them. The good news there is teenagers still like scifi, at least the male ones do, and female teenagers get recruited into militant lesbianism after plentiful exposure to self destructive victimization porn, aka Vampire Bodice Rippers (Meyer and Carriger) which are the majority of female teen books today. I wish that weren't the case, but the exception are mutant rebel murder porn like Divergent and Mockingjay. As expected, teen boys hate that crap. As a proto-librarian in training I've TRIED to read the girl stuff just to understand it, and I don't get how this qualifies as okay for teen viewing. Its murder porn. Its the worst of humanity, and its brainwashing teenagers into victimhood. They would probably read it anyway, however. Teenage girls are all about self-harm, after all. This is why they grow up to be neurotic cat ladies surrounded by pee and rotting newspapers.
I'm really good at helping the elderly, but libraries do not hire for that, even though they should. Should is one of those words that's a long way from reality. So unless I discover a county library that is run by sane people instead of the usual militant feminists and communists and mothers of young children (thankfully the majority of the staff), I am looking at some real challenges in getting hired due to being male rather than the other gender and its pretenders and outliers that go into the wrong restroom. Librarianship is interesting in that it is a bastion of sexism and discrimination against white males. This is odd because many books aren't inherently gendered, though Romance novels certainly are.
I already know that one should NEVER volunteer at a college, because once you do, you can't be hired there. Volunteering at my county's public library has guaranteed I won't be hired there either. I do more work than the paid librarians do, and their snide remarks about my work being too efficient seems to be feeding politics I want nothing to do with. A pity, but at least I know this is not the place to seek a job anymore. Same with Placer County, which is even worse. Places that purport to believe in literacy are the last to pay for it.
So I'm looking at other places with libraries. Most will require me to move elsewhere, being too far away. I know that Chico State is a proper college, but they offer a library science MLIS program and have a huge university library. It is a tempting backup to the San Jose State program, and probably worth more in the job market than SJSU's sheepskin. There's proper job experience. I suspect I'd gain something working the local college library, only the local college library is run by a college that's at least halfway crooked. So I'd gain additional reasons to dislike their communists, always sheltered in colleges, and that's exactly how evil persists. It has a place to go that's safe. The Sacramento Valley largely comments on the communism in Chico, and the money flowing into the community there is significant compared to the general poverty of everywhere else. If I went to that school I'd get a lot of work experience in a university setting at their library, which would be useful. Might even pay for housing. More expensive than here. But a lot more options.
If I get some volunteer time at the local college library, that could lead to paid work at a different college library down the road. I notice that rural towns sometimes have a community college, for all the high school graduates that want to leave town and have a better life than wage slavery or child rearing and drug addiction. Rural community colleges are very focussed on achievement towards escape from poverty. Someone as goal oriented as me might be a welcome employee at the college in Redding, for example, though that town is accused of having real violent crime problems.
Finding all the opinion pieces masquerading as "scholarly" with traces of statistical citations are rather common. Finding truth among all the chaff is the hard part. Perhaps students will want that? Or is pointing out all the conflicting statements contrary to the communists? Will they fire me, or do they get knifed by the local lumberjacks who hate communists more than I do? Considering that Jefferson State is proudly anti-communist, if they actually break away from California I'm exactly the sort they want. My interest in non-fiction maintenance manuals and cookbooks is probably a big plus, since those are all about making your money worth more by lasting longer. Jefferson is likely to remove all the self destructive stupidity of the vicious communists in Sacramento and allow all sorts of public experiments with private funds, rather than private experiments with public funds. So experimental cars instead of collegiate hooker training. And CNC and machining would make good sense there compared to art galleries and advanced communism. Diesel mechanics, not golf carts.
Finding a library that will hire a white male conservative atheist is my goal. People like me have to be valuable somewhere. The entire country can't all be communists and cultists, can it?
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