As others have said, I don't know how useful this will be, but here you go.
I swore up and down throughout high school and part of college that I would never be a librarian, even though I had been working in libraries for years. And then I had an amazing boss when I worked in the reference department my sophomore and junior years and I changed my mind. I went to library school right after college. I got my MLIS 12 years ago. (Sometimes I forget just how long I've been a "grown-up".)
7 years ago I moved and had the opportunity to go back to school in the evenings for almost no cost (hooray for academic perks!) and I've slowly but surely been working on a 2nd master's degree. I'm in the midst of rewriting my thesis right now. I'd been sort of feeling like I'm in a rut, job-wise, but hadn't really thought much about it. However, once I started working on my thesis, I realized that what I really want to do is go back to school full-time and get my PhD. Sort of a scary prospect as I have a mortgage and need to keep myself and the cat in food and kitty toys. But I found a program that sounds so cool and I went over to talk to them and came away feeling like I *really* want to be part of it. So I've decided that I'm definitely going to apply for Fall '08. If I get accepted, I'll figure it out from there. It's scary, but I'm going to do it anyway.
What I'd do after I got the PhD, I have no clue. However, things generally seem to work out in the end, so I'm not going to worry about that just yet.
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I swore up and down throughout high school and part of college that I would never be a librarian, even though I had been working in libraries for years. And then I had an amazing boss when I worked in the reference department my sophomore and junior years and I changed my mind. I went to library school right after college. I got my MLIS 12 years ago. (Sometimes I forget just how long I've been a "grown-up".)
7 years ago I moved and had the opportunity to go back to school in the evenings for almost no cost (hooray for academic perks!) and I've slowly but surely been working on a 2nd master's degree. I'm in the midst of rewriting my thesis right now. I'd been sort of feeling like I'm in a rut, job-wise, but hadn't really thought much about it. However, once I started working on my thesis, I realized that what I really want to do is go back to school full-time and get my PhD. Sort of a scary prospect as I have a mortgage and need to keep myself and the cat in food and kitty toys. But I found a program that sounds so cool and I went over to talk to them and came away feeling like I *really* want to be part of it. So I've decided that I'm definitely going to apply for Fall '08. If I get accepted, I'll figure it out from there. It's scary, but I'm going to do it anyway.
What I'd do after I got the PhD, I have no clue. However, things generally seem to work out in the end, so I'm not going to worry about that just yet.