The Greatest Job (that no longer exists)
I was talking to DQ Story Consultant John Harwood this afternoon. He's playing a game where you clean books and put them on the proper shelves (or something). He mentioned how satisfying it was, and I told him his perfect job would have been
a reference desk person at a library.
I still remember being in the Corpus Christi library (the downtown location, the big one) and talking to the person running the reference desk. I asked her a question, and she went off and did research, then came back with the answer. Then she was kind enough to tell me about her job and how much she enjoyed it.
Getting paid to research oddball queries all day long? Sign me up.
For both John and myself, it would have been one of the most satisfying jobs imaginable. A full day of learning every day at work.
That job is gone now, of course. People don't ever have to ask where information is anymore. Of course, there's a huge difference between information and knowledge. We seem to be drowning in the former and sorely lacking in the latter.
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