I'm gonna go get one of those job things

The Networking People say that when you're on the lookout for a job you should tell everyone, because you never know where the Big Tip might come from. So, this is me attempting to invoke the Mighty Powers of Networking by doing just that.

I'm thinking about moving back to UT in the fall. Just a few reasons for this are:

1. I know people there.
2. I may end up having to get a low-paying library assistant-type job for the first year, and it will be a lot easier to live on the cheap in UT for a while than in someplace cool but strangle-you-with-your-own-intestines-expensive like London or Boston or Seattle. That can come later when I'm making more than $8 an hour.
3. Coney's might be hiring. Free custard, baby!
4. If all else fails, I will head for the desert and try polygamy. They probably don't make you get a job if you're wearing Laura Ingalls Wilder dresses and hiding out on a compound.

So. Here's where I grovel. I know some people who have been on here are library students or librarians or know people who work in libraries or have been to a library or know that it's wrong to pronounce it "liberry." I'd like to get your input on what the library job sitch is like in UT, or if anyone knows of any upcoming openings or good contacts or advice or anything like that. Also if anyone who works in libraries wants to pass my name on that would be great too. Only please don't tell them that Miss Nemesis wants a job. They'll probably think I'm some sort of dominatrix weirdo. I'll give you the real name if you email me!

Right now I'm thinking Salt Lake Valley, Utah Valley, and Logan. I'm up for public or academic libraries. Or school libraries, even though I don't have a teaching degree. Or, really, whatever I can get.

And even though I have zero experience working in an actual library and might not get any this summer on account of England is mean, I do have customer service, marketing, editing, supervisory, working with children and teenagers, bow-hunting, and other great skills. And I never compliment myself, but my friends say I am doing quite well in the top librarianship program in the UK. The soonest I would be in UT is probably the last week of September

So, if anyone has some crumbs to throw, I'd be grateful. You can comment or email, whichever you prefer. Please don't make me go live in Alaska and work at the Dimond Mall food court. I would really prefer to avoid that.

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