Library Technician

I have a job interview for a library technician position on Monday. Wish me luck! My daughter keeps getting excited, but I'm not. I'm satisfied that I got an interview because that means my application was good. I'm not excited because they will probably have lots of applications. Stiff competition. It's for the position where the union was brought in to look at how the job was classified so they must have resolved it quickly. We'll just wait to see how this works out.

Yes that's right, I haven't asked madame about deleting holdings from the national database for material she's weeding. I grabbed the remaining books out of the box and deleted the holdings myself but she hasn't done any more weeding so that's my justification. She's not weeding, she's not making a mess. If she starts up again I'll force myself to say something. I promise. Really.

I'm finding myself running into people I haven't seen for a while. Inevitably we talk about employment and employment prospects. Everyone is feeling the pinch. Yesterday a friend who works part time casual in 2 separate library jobs because she can't get enough work in either. Today a friend who took some time off to travel to another city to see if could settle there and had to come back because she couldn't get a library job in 3 months. They were both horrified to find out I've been working for a year and I don't have paid holidays coming up. The whole thing about working contract and not getting paid leave is that you are suppose to be getting more money than other people in the industry to make up. Then you can save ahead for your hols. I don't get paid more than others. I get paid less. No one would work under these conditions unless they were desperate. And I guess that's me.