[LM_NET] Vent

[Molly Clark <mclark2@PHOENIX.K12.NY.US>]

Hi everyone,

I just need to vent a little.  Feel free to hit the delete key.  

I've been told for the second time this summer that I am not getting a job because 
I am not "bubbly" enough.

I'm told that my qualifications and experience are great - the only thing that kept 
me from the job was that I was too low key.  Not bubbly.  Yes, the word bubbly was 
used.   "We're sure you must have that passion and zeal based on your 
accomplishments, it just didn't come through in the interview"  "You are very low 
key, not positive or bubbly."

I call it professional.  I did smile and make them laugh.  But no, no one would 
call me bubbly.  I am the only librarian in the county to join Batle of the Books, 
my license plate says READ2M, but that apparently does not indicate enthusiasm.

To be honest, I am "Not completly out of the running" for the second job, but they 
have decided to look at some more candidates for the reasons stated above.  I am so 
sad right now.  I am a great librarian, even in a less than ideal situation.  My 
teachers and kids love me.  Parents love me.  I feel guilty about wanting to leave 
them, but I want to be closer to home.  And of course, now I am questioning 
everything I thought I had accomplished.  Maybe I'm not as good as I think I am?

How many of you would call yourselves "Bubbly?" (or at least not be surprised if 
someone else did?) Just curious.

Thanks for letting me vent.  No need to respond, I just needed a large shoulder to 
cry on for a minute.  I feel better now.

I'll just have to make sure my Battle of the Books team kicks butt this year ....  
if any bubbly school dares challenge us.  :-)

~Molly 

Molly Clark
Intermediate Librarian
Michael Maroun Elementary School
Phoenix, NY
mclark2@phoenix.k12.ny.us

"What a school thinks about its library, is a measure of what it thinks 
about education."  Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of Education

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