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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Answering the question re becoming a librarian - for me personally it was because I liked the work - i.e. doing research, working with people, teaching, organizing information.  I did consider being a lawyer, but most of the lawyers that I knew at that time didn't seem terribly happy with their work.  I was able to do my MLS in 2 years and by working during that time graduated with zero debt making it much more palatable financially.[/quote]

Why don't you aim at becoming a Professor? [/quote]

Although some people who set out to be Professors change tracks to become librarians, the work style/day-to-day stuff is actually pretty different (in my experience, working in academia alongside both). There are two very different personality types: professorial research being self-directed and super-focused in one area, working on one project for years at a time, whereas librarians work on lots of different projects, usually on questions developed by other people, and seem to always be racing a deadline. Professors are more likely to be regarded as experts and have the advantage of greater control over their own research time, but librarians usually know more about a greater number of topics (and not exactly at a shallow level), and I would see fewer librarians who were bored out of their minds with their work.[/quote]

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