Today I started my Internship day by interviewing Ms. Jan Glover.Jan started working at Yale Medical Library in 1977. Back then, she said that because of the low rate of women working professionally, young women just took any job they were offered. But. Jan went to library school after college and received her Masters in Library Science. Jan is mostly interested in information skills for clinical medicine and wants her students to learn how to look for information in the most effective ways. Even before she became a librarian, she was interested in medicine, but she never wanted to work with it. So she became a medical librarian!
After meeting Jan, I went to interview Mr. Mark Gentry. Mark told me that when he was 13, he decided to become a rock and roll musician. Then when he was 18 years old, he decided to become a lawyer. Finally decided to become an anthropologist. Mr. Gentry taught as an ESL teacher in China and other overseas places.Then he decided to become a medical librarian, which has been a really interesting career for him..
I had great time interviewing Ms.Glover and Mr. Gentry, as I learned lots of things about them and how they found the profession of medical librarianship. I also learned that you can try different fields on for size and see what interests you. Then you can always change. You don't always have to work with what you love directly.You can work with what you love indirectly, just like Jan.
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