Why I love my job

What I love above all about my regular job is the variety. I work part-time for Langara College in Vancouver as an Instructional Assistant. Most days vary for me. I do administrative work, have given workshops in Dreamweaver, I spend a lot of my time on email advising current and prospective students, I update manuals and web content, I supervise departmental student workers, and generally liaise between our department and the various college departments. Often chaotic but rarely boring!

I also love that my Langara job is part-time, which allows me to look for contract work and focus on my own web-based projects. I recently finished a three month media cataloguing contract with the CBC, I've created a Microsoft Access database for a small law library which is now being used as their primary catalogue, and I continue to develop websites for local artists and entrepreneurs.

Why I chose a career in libraries

I began working in my local library in New Brunswick while in high school, and then again for the Vancouver Public Library in the early 1990s when I moved to Vancouver. But it was in 2001 when I was contracted to create a resource centre for a video arts collective that I discovered a love for working with digital media. I decided then to enrol in the Library Technician program because I realized it would allow me to combine my developing digital skills with my background in libraries, along with an innate need to organize things! The fact that it also provides a lifelong opportunity to work in changing environments with progressive, creative people is an added bonus.