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"What-a-future!"


  Here’s the tale of an average work day at a big-deal sports network. Some of the details are changed to protect the humor. “What a Future!” Today is Saturday. It’s time to go to work. I work at an unusual place. It’s not the typical part-time college job. In fact, here, 40 hours is “part-time.” You just work 40 hours and you get benefits, but it’s still considered “part-time.”  It’s not my dream job, but it has moments of possibility, I think. Well, I thought it was THE job when I started. But, I think everyone else did too. As a member of the Program Resource Center, I am instructed to work together with a team of five to ten other librarians. We gather videos to prepare them for air. Today is different though. Bobby, a woman in her fifties, is training three new video librarians to replace the others that have been promoted or fired. It will take six weeks to train the new recruits. Three recruits waddle like ducks behind their instructor. So far, two of the thre