This week's lesson: mediocrity gets you hired.

[Chan790]

3. If it's not too personal to ask...

what church were you a minister in? More precisely, do they have colleges and universities?

I ask because I know that the libraries of religious universities may be more interested in you because of the MA in Divinity, especially if you were interested in taking a second degree and had some training or interest in taking training in restoration or archival work more immediately. I had an ex-gf who was working in the Oliviera Lima collection in the Mullen stacks at Catholic Univ. in DC getting paid to catalog and very-daintily dust the pages of 1000 year old books and relics, some of the most valuable treasures of the Catholic church. They specifically wanted someone who understood what it was they were preserving and why it was important. At the same time, they were paying for her to go to school towards a MS in Library Science two courses at a time.

It might take 5 or 6 years, but it's a free MS and a job if you can find that kind of option.