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Originally Posted by Auburn Annie
Well I HAD to be, since my entire career I was a solo, nobody else to fall back on but one 80 year old volunteer once a week. Most of that time I worked as a hospital librarian, with doctors who needed drug interactions, surgical techniques, meta studies like yesterday (and they weren't ER docs, either - surgeons usually.) I worked with almost 100 doctors, 250 nurses, technicians, therapists, administrators, office staff and janitors, plus patients and their families. Like my Dad's, my desk looked like a paper factory exploded and, like him, I knew exactly where the folder with the quarterly budget was, or the orientation papers, or the draft of the article I was writing was tucked. Everything had to be easy to run in case I went on vacation (or maternity leave - you should have seen the panicked looks I got - "you ARE coming back, right??)
Where did you / do you work? Aside from the hospital I spent 5 years in a community college library, too.
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Now see, with that medical background you do have to be organized and accurate.
I've been a reference librarian in a public system for about ever. That wasn't my plan but it worked out all right. Went up into middle management and hated it so moved back down to public service again. I'm the sort that likes to know a little bit about everything so in that respect it's a good career match.
In 2 years, 11 months and 9 days I'll likely be collecting pension and Social Security. Not that I'm counting or anything.... I could start collecting the pension any time I want but that's not enough to live on.