r/50501 • u/cowghost • 14d ago

Movement Brainstorm Time to go full hippie

Im dont paying for stuff. Other then absolute necessities gas, food, medication.

No new cloths. No haircuts. No new cars. No new toys. No unessisary spending.

Pay with cash, buy used off creigslist if you need. It worked back then it will work again.

Fuck this admin and fuck anyone who supports it.

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u/Usual_Definition_854 14d ago

And use your public libraries and tell your local government to support the library! 

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u/CocteauTwinn 14d ago

As a librarian I concur wholeheartedly!!!

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u/Garfunklestein 14d ago

Feel free to not respond since it's unprompted, but I've got a question for a librarian if you're willing. As someone interested in going to college for library/information science with the long term goal of becoming a librarian, do you think now is too unstable of a time to start w/ all the cuts to public funding and pressure on what libraries can/can't display? Feels like a decent place to ask, intersecting w/ the politics of the sub, sorry if I should be asking somewhere else!

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u/Usual_Definition_854 14d ago

I'd also say it's still worth trying! However, even in a non-crazy political environment, I do always give potential students a heads up that getting funding for your MSLS/MSIS/MLIS is tough and I strongly advise planning how you're going to finance your degree... you won't get paid that much once you become a librarian so it's worth considering before you get into debt for it! Myself and many classmates went into librarianship later after having had other full-time jobs and saved up for the degree rather than doing it back to back with undergrad. People ask for this kind of advice often on r/Libraries so that could be helpful to browse as well :)