More like The Gradubaked, eh Tai?
Tai's position has been left ambiguous all along. She's referred to being a TA, which would normally mean she was a grad. student working on a Master's, but at the beginning at least she was living in a dorm. So who knows what "graduation" she's talking about?
With regard to qualifications, let's not forget that Marten is a graduate, though not in Library Science. He has a degree in Music History & Critical Theory.
I've wondered before and I wonder again: Are we to understand Marten's degree to be in Music History & MUSICAL Critical Theory? Or a dual-major/concentration sort of thing in Music History and plain old Critical Theory. Because the latter, without a further modifier, suggests to me that half his major is in literary/social theorists like Foucault, Zizek, Lacan, Bloom, de Man, Derrida, Jameson, Edelman, etc., etc. Which I've never heard of someone getting a B.A. in specifically. I think you'd generally have to get a degree in English or Comp Lit for that stuff to even be on your radar.
So basically, does Marten have an English or at least Englishy degree?
Because if he does have a background in that, he's got options, believe it or not. I completed a B.A. in English during which I dabbled in theory and such, then took two years off to live in Northampton, tend bar, work on my writing skills, and hook up with Smith students -- then, BAM, I applied for and got a teaching fellowship that waived tuition for my Masters and paid a good enough stipend to live on. As Much as Marten has the kind of degree that people imagine to be worthless in the "real world," it's very possible he could parlay it into something real and life-building. He might have abandoned his blog a bit too quickly, but at least he has shown aptitude for writing. Combine that with a B.A. in a relevant field, and you can find work.