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[truepenny]

Have I mentioned I hate job-hunting?

There's nothing that makes you feel quite so much like a waste of carbon as getting turned down for a library shelver position. I didn't even make the interview.

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[romsfuulynn.livejournal.com]

The only other thing I would note is that if you have any experience actually doing library shelving that might have been one of the sifts.

I haven't done any of that kind of hiring for twenty five years, but the degrees don't necessarily mean you can shelve (Dewey or LC) or alphabetize. You may have learned to use LC class as a patron, but not as a shelver.

What someone said about temp jobs is good - call them every day - once you get a couple and show up in a non-impaired appropriately dressed manner, you should at least be able to get semi-steady work that way. (This is partly a class issue and you can manage that - standard English, appropriate clothing, and showing up are most of what counts in temp jobs. But they are going to call the people they know can do that first.)