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  • From: DSanner106 AT aol.com
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Farm Update
  • Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 17:17:39 EDT

you may well be right on that one Lynn, my thoughts were the
online courses in research and other related areas. I am sure
there is something out there though. Good luck with the search.

Drew


In a message dated 10/2/2009 4:15:26 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com writes:

Drew; Library work per se may be on the way out. I went to Drexel
University's School of Library Science, and they had 'career paths' that
had
very little to do with library work. My course work was mostly in
information storage and retrieval and technical writing. They also had a
'path' for setting up office information systems; that included connecting
hardware, software, databases, report design, etc. That was pretty
advanced
for those days (early 80's), and many of my classmates went into the
business of automating offices.

Lynn Wigglesworth
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> Lynn,
> With a MLS you would be qualified to teach in some of the online
> programs, I
> don't know if you have an interest in teaching or not, but it is an
option
> and one
> you can do from home. I have friends in the field and like others, it is
> changing as well.
> I was just looking at a page(listed below) that details currently what
> this
> degree entails
> and what sort of current and future jobs one can expect. One of my kids
> has
> an interest
> in the field.
> Good luck
> Drew
>
>
_http://www.worldwidelearn.com/online-education-guide/arts-humanities/librar
> y-science-major.htm_
>
(http://www.worldwidelearn.com/online-education-guide/arts-humanities/library-science-major.htm)
>
>
> In a message dated 10/2/2009 12:51:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> erthnsky AT bellsouth.net writes:
>
>
>
> Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
>> I can't find a job. I have a Master of Library Science but the
>> library won't even interview me anymore (I've applied for 4 different
>> positions in the past 2-3 years); they tell me that I'm
>> over-qualified for an entry-level job (I think it's that I have a
>> better degree from a better school than the library director...she
>> thinks I'm after her job), <snip>
>>
>> But I worry less about that all the time (senility maybe?). I'm
>> ridiculously satisfied with what I have.
>>
>> Lynn Wigglesworth Tioga Co. PA
>
> I was ridiculously satisfied with my life, too, even though we are in
> debt and the house is falling apart in some ways. Then, out of the
> blue, a job offer came my way. As you know, I start work on Monday, but
> I am bittersweet about it because it means I must leave my current
> lifestyle behind.
> I'm five years younger than you, but we are of the same generation. We
> both went to school prior to "The Information Age". I don't know when
> you got your Master's Degree-if it was immediately after your Bachelor's
> or later, but did you think about the outlook for those types of jobs
> before you got your Masters?
> I don't mean to sound critical. I am in the same boat. When I decided
> Medicine wasn't for me, in 1983, I thought I'd be okay with just a
> chemistry degree. I was very 'green', as we say today, and I dreamed of
> working as an environmental chemist. Because I married and started a
> family quickly, I never worked as a chemist right after school. I did
> not get my first chemistry related job until 12 years later, so I
> started my "career" late, in my mid-thirties. It hasn't been contiguous
> employment, either. I felt like a dinosaur most of the time, even on
> the job, because Science, by it's very definition, changes. We are
> always gaining more knowledge, adding to, replacing old assumptions,
> refining hypotheses. When I went to school, there were 103 elements
> on the Periodic Table and maybe 2 experimental ones that I remember-but
> they were not on the table. Now, there are 118+ elements, 115 of which
> have names and places on the table, a table has been rearranged and
> 'simplified'...no longer are there subgroups, just numbered groups. I
> took a facebook quiz the other day and almost missed one because I was
> 'thrown off' by Group 17. You see, on my personal, trusty Periodic
> Table, Group 17 is known as Group VII A, which in my opinion, is a more
> descriptive name since the 7 signifies the number of valence electrons.
> I guess someone wanted to simplify the nomenclature and just number the
> groups/columns across from left to right.
> Adhesives are based on polymers. When I was in school, polymer
> chemistry was handled as a chapter in my Organic book and pretty much
> only dealt with natural polymers and the simplest synthetics like rayon,
> neoprene, PTFE (Teflon), Nomex, etc. It was only base knowledge at that
> time, or at least that was all that was covered in my undergraduate
> textbook. Today, you can actually obtain degrees in polymer science,
> and it, like environmental chemistry, is a specialty. That really
> handicaps someone like me who is twice the age of recent grads to begin
> with. I found myself not just working, but studying and teaching myself
> to think creatively about the physical arrangement of polymers and what
> characteristics they would have based on that arrangement. That's it in
> a nutshell, but the possibilities are endless and I often feel too old
> to think about it anymore. I simply don't retain knowledge the way I
> did when I was younger. It sucks.
> My point is, Lynn, who knew that it would be like this? I believed that
> chemistry would change and grow, of course, but not to the extent that
> it has. Biology and the Natural Sciences might have seen fewer changes.
> Physics and the Engineering fields seems to change with the wind.
> Karen, if you are reading this, I'd be interested in your thoughts on
> this.
> I honestly thought, when I chose my major, that I was making the best
> choice, choosing a field that would grow and provide lots of
> opportunity. I never envisioned that it would grow and leave me behind.
> Maybe Lynn can relate to that or maybe you have a similar but opposite
> problem. I don't know. I feel for you, though.
>
> Bev
> --
> Sleep well tonight, for somewhere in the ocean's depths, MY son is
> protecting your freedom on the USS Key West, currently deployed
> somewhere in the Pacific and/or Indian Ocean. Go Navy!
> EarthNSky Farm, NW Georgia, USA
>
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