The Liminal Librarian

So I’ve now visited this LJ article on “Take this Job and Love it” several times, mostly because they are tricksy and keep sucking me in through different blurbs in every different email newsletter. This time around, this comment struck me:

The survey also suggests that as careers span, satisfaction levels rise. Of librarians in the field ten years or less, 23% were “very satisfied” compared to 39% of those in the field over 20 years. “As you get older, and are married with children, you do tend to invest more in family as opposed to your job,” says Kidwell, in his current post over 20 years. “Some of it, too, is that you come to accept that you’re in a profession that just isn’t going to offer those high salaries.”

Or…. perhaps satisfaction levels don’t rise per se, but it’s that those who aren’t satisfied, eventually, well… LEAVE. But I’m cynical .