just for stories like this:
Report: Women Increasingly Choosing Dead-End Careers Over Dead-End Relationships
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]]>"Avoiding dying alone at all costs is no longer the primary goal for many of today's women," Detweiller said. "Every year, millions of educated females discover that they can be just as underappreciated and ignored in the workplace as they can while doting on loutish and inattentive boyfriends."
In addition to an overall increase in those settling for absolutely futureless secretarial or librarian positions, the study showed that more women are now choosing dead-end occupations conventionally dominated by men, such as accounting and data entry.
Watching last night Colbert Report.
Must go find this month's Atlantic Monthly.
The article MUST be satire. Gawd, I hope it's satire.
Ohgod, it's online. Must go read.
Another note to self: you settled once, never ever ever again.
we're cool enough to make McSweeney's...
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Ten reasons to be a librarian
You totally get to classify things.
Where else are you going to ruin a person's day over a 20-cent fine?
The funky glasses make you easily mistaken for a hipster.
You can make up whatever you want and people will believe you just because you're a librarian.
Ten reasons not to be a librarian
Who wants to go to grad school for two years to learn theory you will never use?
Those little punk teenagers on skateboards.
People kind of expect you to know things.
If you know enough about how to find information to be a good librarian, you can definitely make more money doing something else.
I love my job.More at the link above....