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Fashion Designer AND Librarian…

Guess what?  After a very, very long hiatus, I’m back.   I’m a Librarian again.  I’m also a Fashion Designer with my own fashion label ( megsmithmakes.com ), but I have made the decision to take the pressure away from earning creatively, and return to Librarian Life as a regular source of income. There is so much that has changed over the last few years.  Since I last posted I was but a Librarian babe in the woods - a Library Officer in a diverse and colourful public library trying to find their career niche.  I thought that I had for a while - I scored a job in Collections and moved to another Library service, and it was a great job.  To be honest, I probably would have still been in that job if not for the COVID years.  In a tale that has been played out by thousands, I found returning to the “office” after working from home was… unpalatable.  It wasn’t just the commuting, it was more the tiresome paranoia.  The staff were somewhat paranoid...