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Economics & Class

Why talking about librarian pay doesn’t help us get better salaries

Why talking about librarian pay doesn’t help us get better salaries

Today when I woke up, I found #talkpay trending on twitter. (Yes, what better way to enjoy your morning coffee than with a thousand astonishing tech salaries and 160-character comments?) Where’d this come from? Well, Lauren Voswinkel wrote in ModelViewCulture that men and

Cee May 2015January 2018 Economics & Class, Library No Comments Read more

How much money do librarians actually make?

How much money do librarians actually make?

I’ve spent a little time playing with infographics recently. Infogr.am is a pretty user-friendly service that let me pull together the graphic on young librarians below. The data and quotes are from Library Journal, my survey of recent MLS grads, and the Bureau of

Cee March 2015January 2018 Data, Economics & Class, Library No Comments Read more

Working with survey results in Excel

Working with survey results in Excel

It’s a snowy weekend as I draft this with a cup of hot cocoa in hand 🙂 I went over my survey of 385 young librarians before, as well as critiqued my own methods. In this post, I’ll try working with Excel data.

Cee December 2014January 2018 Data, Economics & Class, Library 1 Comment Read more

“Berlin is for partying, not for reading books in a hostel!”

“Berlin is for partying, not for reading books in a hostel!”

“You want to be a writer? Schopenhauer said that you must not seek to be the most famous artist, you must just become the best that you can be. To draw the sound of flowers,” Mathéo says, clenching his fist

Cee March 2014January 2018 Economics & Class, Humor, Worldwide 1 Comment Read more

Being a better manager

Being a better manager

My first embryonic manager experience was not my strong point. Working on a research team in Mongolia, I was suddenly set in charge of two feisty local girls while our leaders were out of the country on side trips (story). Hmm.

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Being a better assistant

Being a better assistant

Having spent years in assistant roles, it has been intriguing recently to manage new assistants. Compared with prior posts, helping to manage has me seeing many ways that I could have improved as an assistant in the past. So if you’re

Cee January 2014January 2018 Economics & Class No Comments Read more

Things I learned from my assistant

Things I learned from my assistant

I used to have these daydreams where I would be the influential personal assistant to someone really powerful. But then I realized, good assistants to the rich and famous shouldn’t keep a blog. Or journal notes. Or private thoughts. Or

Cee January 2014January 2018 Economics & Class, Library No Comments Read more

Bailing out the American economy

Bailing out the American economy

Steven Gray’s article, Can the Black Middle Class Survive, has stuck with me. I remember his excellent work as a reporter on Detroit for TIME magazine. Yet after a painful layoff, he lays out the challenges that middle-class Blacks faced in the recent economic tremors of America:

Cee January 2014January 2018 Economics & Class, USA No Comments Read more

New workers and their social networks in Astana

New workers and their social networks in Astana

As I leave work, I see one of the maintenance men leaving, and catch a ride across town with him. We wait for his nephew, as the country’s flags whip back and forth on the flagpole. “Once, you Americans were the

Cee September 2013January 2018 Economics & Class, Kazakhstan No Comments Read more

Teresa and her multi-level marketing business

Teresa and her multi-level marketing business

As I’ve written before, I get curious whenever someone offers a “great opportunity” for shakes, vitamins, candles, or dishware. Usually, it means they’ve joined a direct-selling company (aka MLM, or multi-level marketing)–the kind that recruits buyers and sellers through friendship networks,

Cee August 2013January 2018 Economics & Class, Gender No Comments Read more
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