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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 of each other, the patrons were either extr