My Place in the World

I've really started thinking about my future a lot lately, mostly in regards to my job.  Librarians are dropping like flies across the state.  In my kids' school they may be able to get a librarian if they win a grant.  A grant?  Are you kidding me?  So what happens when the grant money runs out?  No more librarian?  Honestly, I would love to be in an elementary school but it's too much of a gamble.  I would also love to be a tech teacher for the little ones too.  But librarians are not considered essential personnel, along with guidance counselors, and many special ed. positions.  At least on the secondary level, one librarian is mandatory per district.  But do I want to be in a place where I have to jump around from school to school?  Or would it even be like that?  Support people in the other libraries maybe?  I really need to explore further what my new Master's will qualify me to do.  It would be fun to be an independent contractor--I could go around to different schools and workshop them on tech tools.  But I don't think that now is the best time to do that...
I do like my job, really.  I just don't want to wake up one morning without one.  I have to be proactive.
Okay, enough of the depressing talk.

I really like the blog, The Standardized Teacher.  However, I worry for her job.  She throws some people in her district under the bus.  But she makes some really great points. 

I found this bumper sticker.  I find it too funny that such a thing exists.  It's a link to an interesting news snippet...