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WCDT Strips 3771 - 3775 (25-29 June 2018)
Zebediah:
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--- Quote from: Penquin47 on 26 Jun 2018, 20:31 ---Oh boy. Of course, soon in QC time might well mean her comprehensive exams will happen in 2019 real time, but... this has the potential for SRS DRAMA if Claire gets a job in, say, New York.
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Ironically enough, I'm an elected library trustee from a small western Massachusetts town. Trust me, there are jobs available. She'll be working in one of the hilltowns, she might have to put together two part-time gigs, and she'll absolutely need a car, but Claire won't have to go out-of-region.
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She may not even need to do that. I just took a look at local librarian job openings, and there are three at Smith, one with the public library in Amherst, and a couple in Springfield.
BenRG:
IMO, there are basically three mid-term outcomes for this arc:
* Claire can't find a librarian position immediately and has to get a stop-gap position at Coffee of Doom; not having to look like a librarian lets her inner love for the cyberpunk aesthetic come out (yes, I like the idea of Claire dressed in the punk style);
* Claire gets a job at Smif College's main library; this makes her technically Tai and Marten's superior and certain awkwardness and hilarity ensues;
* Claire gets a job at UMass at Amhurst and this leads to increasingly awkward (Clinton) and bizarre (Emily) interactions.
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 27 Jun 2018, 03:56 ---She may not even need to do that. I just took a look at local librarian job openings, and there are three at Smith, one with the public library in Amherst, and a couple in Springfield.
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The thing is that Claire wants to work in a big library and make a name in her field so she can end up working in the Library of Congress or something. It will probably be very difficult for her to accept starting in a small, provincial library with the possibility of limited opportunities for advancement.
moriastar:
*delurks*
Claire! Do what I did and start putting out applications NOW. Not later, NOW. I did that my last semester and everyone laughed at me for it. I explained in interviews that I was still a student but this was my current GPA and here are my current grades in my current classes and I expect to graduate on X day. Literally walked off the stage after graduation, got in my car, and drove to the town I was hired in to start work the next day.
Also- former library grad so I'm wondering if he'll put in... the CAPSTONE project librarians have to pass to get their master's degree.
It's literally at 8am Monday morning you are given 10 potential research topics. You have exactly 7 days (Due 7:59AM the following Monday) to write 3 well researched papers with NO HELP FROM ANYONE (not even to edit and spell check!) that meet certain word min and max and source types and such. You may never talk about the questions or what you researched or how you did it with anyone ever or they can take away the degree. This is put forth by the American Librarian Association. (if someone was in the program more recently and has corrections to this feel free to correct, I did graduate in '06).
OH and you never know what you did and didn't do well it, just that you passed all 3- or you couldn't move forward. I think you only got two chances at this.... I was too terrified to take the chance so I made sure to pass the first time.
dutchrvl:
--- Quote from: traroth on 26 Jun 2018, 14:41 ---"Pétard" means either firecracker (literal meaning) or joint, in french. Actually, I remember from my duty time that military also use it for small explosive charges.
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Don't think anybody has pointed it out yet, but yesterday's comic was a pretty awesome callback to comic https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=628 of no less than 12 years ago!
Thrillho:
I work in further education in the UK and I'm about to move to a job at a university. It is amusing to me that during weeks when I am basically dragging students over the finish line by the short ones, Claire is panicking about the exact same shit my students are.
--- Quote from: Theta9 on 26 Jun 2018, 21:15 ---If Urban Dictionary were currency, it plus a dollar would be worth a nickel.
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I am stealing the shit out of this to apply to other things.
--- Quote from: dutchrvl on 27 Jun 2018, 04:29 ---
--- Quote from: traroth on 26 Jun 2018, 14:41 ---"Pétard" means either firecracker (literal meaning) or joint, in french. Actually, I remember from my duty time that military also use it for small explosive charges.
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Don't think anybody has pointed it out yet, but yesterday's comic was a pretty awesome callback to comic https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=628 of no less than 12 years ago!
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Holy shit, you guys and your achive-fu. Sometimes I barely remember the character NAMES.
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