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How to find part-time fulfilling jobs

• I'm looking for a new job. I've been a library assistant for years and I'm tired of the stultifying atmosphere and conservative coworkers. This is partly made worse by my current work environment which I've loathed ever since I moved like 2 years ago. It just so conservative and small-minded, the kind of place where someone finishing the milk without replacing it would be the source of recrimination and speculation for weeks. I always wanted to work part-time and pursue my writing the rest of the time. I'd naively thought doing a librarianship masters would be a good way to do this. But it basically feels like there are no jobs above assistant level, or that if there are I'm not qualified for them in some intangible way. I want to do something useful where I'm learning actual skills that I can be proud of and fulfilling a useful role in society, with a minimum of neo-liberal and entrepreneurial bs, and which I can do part time. Alternatively I just want a job I can do from home that would earn me enough money to live off doing it maybe 20hrs/ week (I need about £800/month to survive) but I'm not very good at networking or thinking of myself in terms of a 'personal brand'. I've worked through books like what colour is your parachute etc but without success and tests come up with really impractical stuff like university lecturer or poet... but it feels like there must be jobs I might be suited to that I just don't know about. I'm based in the UK (London) so mostly looking for UK options although I am open to relocating if possible.

• Answer:

  Have you considered school library positions? Your colleagues will be teachers, very few of whom will have truck with entrepreneurial bs; you'll get the school holidays off to write; you'll fulfil an enormously useful role in society by helping kids (either by encouraging their love of books or simply creating a nice atmosphere for them to hide in at lunchtimes). I used to work as a librarian assistant before I became a teacher and my mother was a hugely well-respected school librarian who loved her job. There's a lot of push -- old-school librarians vs "new"-school librarians -- but if you want to make a difference as a hip new-school librarian I can't encourage it enough. The librarian working at the school I'm at is impressively cool, has a huge presence in the life of the school and is definitely making a difference. Your paycheque may not meet your needs if you only do it part-time, though, and getting your foot in the door at any educational facility means you've got to prove an interest in children's learning. I work in the UK and write part-time, if that helps.