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Black Male Librarians (quokk.au)
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[–] 14 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Librarian is not a trade, because the job isn’t ’receive book, hand out book’. That’s what the volunteers and assistants do. Working as a librarian requires constant learning and updating yourself on new information and studying the needs of the library patrons. You can read more about other duties here: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/Education-Training-and-Library/Librarians.htm#tab-2

The trades should be more valued, but the way to do that isn’t by denigrating the amount of education that other jobs take.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    A plumber does not just cut and paste pipes or unclogs sinks either. You are denigrating trades in your first phrase by equating them to simple mindless menial jobs my dude

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago

    Not what I was going for but I can see how it can be read that way. My point was that librarian is a job that requires a lot of academic training because it’s a job that heavily relies being able to navigate academic work, which really isn’t the case for plumbing or other trade jobs. That doesn’t make the work mindless, you obviously have to engage your mind to engage in any skilled work. It’s just a different kind of mental engagement, I don’t think anyone who has worked a ‘traditional’ academic job and a trade job would contest that.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    So... plumbers require education, too. In the US it's apprenticeship, trade school, or community college to get licensed. In the UK it's similar, so not just a US thing. You do one of these routes to prove you can do the skilled labor, and receive a license for doing so.

    There is not a "trade school" for a librarian, because to prove you can be a librarian, you need to prove you can learn consistently and over a long period of time. That's not possible without longer education.

    Your argument makes it sound like plumbers don't require education (not your intent, I know), but denigrating the librarian trade doesn't help, either.

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