{"id":308,"date":"2007-07-11T21:59:27","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T02:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=308"},"modified":"2007-09-03T16:33:16","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T20:33:16","slug":"308","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=308","title":{"rendered":"Gloomy Librarians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cronaca.com\/archives\/005075.html\">Cronaca<\/a> links to a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/4605476.stm\">BBC report<\/a> that librarians are in general more stressed and less happy in their work than firemen, policemen, train drivers, or teachers. They don&#8217;t seem to have considered the possibility that unhappy people might be more drawn to library science in the first place. I don&#8217;t know whether it is true, but it is certainly conceivable that unhappiness is correlated with introversion, and introversion correlated with a desire for a nice quiet job dealing with books rather than people. Not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with that! Some of my best friends &#8212; and closest relatives &#8212; are librarians. Are they introverted and unhappy? Not necessarily. I&#8217;m not making a scientific argument, just pointing out the gaping hole in someone else&#8217;s argument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cronaca links to a BBC report that librarians are in general more stressed and less happy in their work than firemen, policemen, train drivers, or teachers. They don&#8217;t seem to have considered the possibility that unhappy people might be more drawn to library science in the first place. I don&#8217;t know whether it is true, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}