resume time

[threeplusfire]

Someone please employ me in a different job. My criteria are: a reasonable Monday through Friday schedule between 7am and 7pm, a marginally sustainable salary, health insurance, and not too much face time with the general public. Everything else is negotiable. I am smart, funny, and computer literate.

Seriously.

I'm having one of those so-upset-speaking-is-impossible moments.

Comments

Books?

[deatonjr.livejournal.com]

I don't know what your interests are but I gather you are really into books. I had considered libraries or publishing. However, I had also heard that college library systems are the elite of the elite, where people settle down for a career. There is publishing, and there is the book trade. I would reccomend going to a trade show or a professional event. The Texas Library Association has an annual event always in a different city. Their website says the next one is in San Antonio next April. There is the annual Texas Book Fair in Austin. Texas has its fair share of publishers, for not being New York City (where all the big ones are headquartered). There are university presses like UT, Texas A&M and several smaller ones. Many museums of notable size publish unique books and run a bookstore, and may be large enough to house their own internal library. I attended a convention for publisher's remainders in Chicago a couple years ago. One niche that interested me were many former booksellers and people in the publishing industry who had started their own middleman type businesses, buying and selling publisher's overstock to other booksellers.