i am a full-time public librarian and i love it....i worked very hard to get the required degrees to be where i am and i continue to wwork hard to land grants, fellowships, publication, etc. so that my value increases within the field. i have marginal salary (lol), better-than-average benefits, and exceptional pension.
Library work is an inspiring and exciting field and i want to stay where i am forever....my only worry is that our elected officials (who come and go, thank goodness) don't always value us, and what if our budgets gets slashed during the next philistine administration?
what if the general public allows themselves to be convinced we are obsolete now that there is google?