Listening to a woman who I didn't like when she said there were volunteering opportunities working with her friends. Being around them made my mental health bad and in the long run was the worst thing I could've done for finding a job, I would've been better off taking a voluntary job in another book shop or even just regular charity shop while I looked for work in retail, waiting for a library job.
Also doing a 'vocational MA' in the first place. I only did it to get a job and to postpone the getting of a job. Knowing I ultimately would not get a job for longer than a few months, I would have been better doing an English lit or creative writing one and enjoying myself. But nobody warned me 'libraries are going to get cut' until I had forked out money for it, and yes, there were libraries in all my schools, unis and towns all my life before that (only primary had no librarian) so it was a reasonable expectation.
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