{"id":13454,"date":"2013-03-19T07:40:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T11:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=13454"},"modified":"2013-05-27T13:18:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T17:18:07","slug":"confessions-of-a-well-educated-stay-at-home-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=13454","title":{"rendered":"Confessions of a well-educated stay-at-home mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Emily Guier, Head Editor,<a title=\"INALJ Wyoming\" href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?page_id=5736\" target=\"_blank\"> INALJ Wyoming<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Confessions of a well-educated stay-at-home mom<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Confession: I\u2019m a library and information professional who has never actually been a library and information professional. Coming out of undergrad, I knew I wanted to get my MLIS, but since I was geographically limited\u2014my husband was getting his JD at the University of Wyoming\u2014I took a few extra steps. I had decided that my future career path would be in academic libraries, and so I worked on getting a subject Master\u2019s degree before I started library school. Fast forward six years later, and I am a well-educated stay-at-home mom, a career that I love.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that I have become I much more active and engaged library user since my son was born last summer. We regularly attend storytime and check out new books. As I have grown into a different kind of library patron, I\u2019m finding myself wondering if I should be a different kind of librarian from what I had originally planned. While I think academic libraries would provide a challenging and rewarding career, I\u2019m not keen on publishing or working towards tenure. I wouldn\u2019t have believed you a few years ago if you would have told me that I would enjoy children\u2019s programming, but it turns out that I really do. My new long-term career plan involves a school library or a children\u2019s librarian job. What I can\u2019t be certain of, however, is if this new plan will still fit in a few years.<\/p>\n<p>How common is this about-face mentality in librarianship? Have any of you started on one track only to find yourself interested in another? \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groupItem?view=&amp;gid=4112382&amp;type=member&amp;item=222470076\" target=\"_blank\">Join the extended discussion<\/a> on LinkedIn.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Emily Guier, Head Editor, INALJ Wyoming Confessions of a well-educated stay-at-home mom Confession: I\u2019m a library and information professional who has never actually been a library and information professional. Coming out of undergrad, I knew I wanted to get my MLIS, but since I was geographically limited\u2014my husband was getting his JD at the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=13454\">Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[69,3831,3832,3833,3631],"class_list":["post-13454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-article","tag-blo","tag-confession","tag-emily-guier","tag-inalj-wyoming"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/inalj-sponsor.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1WoMK-3v0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}