当我第一次在2016年秋天提出职业教育任命时，我更专注于我与2017年夏天的事情比在路上的任何事情上。Sheryl Rosenberg听取了我的不连贯，不专心关于我的职业想法，提出了让我在更大的规模上考虑我的未来的问题，并突出了我可以用来弄清楚我感兴趣的资源。她还问道超出了我对严格职业教育的想法，这一问题逐渐揭示了我在Wellesley担任职业探索的思考。我开始记住我的生活和工作经历的事情。我很高兴在Bates餐厅的快速和常规上学习碟形餐厅的绳索，并且我在2016年在博物馆实习期间解读了Illustrator的签名。因为我是一个我喜欢书籍，写作，组织事物，制定时间表和计划，并告诉人们的事实。我发现各种各样的主题有趣，我喜欢将人们连接到水资源作为平凡，作为一个图形，解释了不同的咖啡饮料是如何制造不同的咖啡饮料或者作为教授所分配的课堂的阅读，但没有能够发布的课程。当我读过WWI士兵的信件并按照时间顺序排列时，在我当地的历史学会志愿者时，我很兴奋，我甚至喜欢通过一个持有的持有榜看，看看哪些与即将到来的展览有关我县世纪的转折。我申请了2017年在戴维斯博物馆实习的实习，对涉及它的涉及或博物馆的博物馆，我的主管实际上，我的主管们在戴维斯博物馆的情况下得到了很明显的想法。我在今年夏天工作十个星期的项目结果是对新收购的编目。 The museum had a different amount of information about each object, and I researched them to fill in the gaps and check the accuracy of the information I already had. I found the process of discovering information and making it accessible to other people, as well as making the objects more searchable in the museum database, very rewarding. I got to decipher signatures, explore online databases, and improve my research skills. During the first few weeks of the internship, my career interests changed with lightning speed: I wanted to be a paintings conservator, a registrar, a curator, a textile conservator, a museum educator, a museum administrator. When Brooke Henderson, the Wellesley Art Librarian, gave a short research training to the Davis interns, career lightbulbs really started to turn on for me. After conversations with Davis staff members, friends, and family, I dove headlong into exploring what paths I could take to becoming a research librarian. I interviewed Brooke Henderson and a librarian at Cornell about their careers, and they both gave me invaluable information and advice about the field. I also shadowed a librarian at Hampshire College, someone I’ve known for ten years and felt comfortable reaching out to. I did some online research, mostly about graduate school options but also on job boards to see what employers were looking for. I’m still in the process of exploring the world of librarianship, which is much wider than I had originally thought. The more I learn about the field, the more it seems like work in libraries would be compatible with my interests in languages, literature, teaching, information, collections, accessibility, and social justice. My internship at the Davis was instrumental in my career exploration not because it revealed the one true path I want to take, but because it opened my eyes to the diversity of career paths that are out there, and gave me the tools to understand myself and my interests better. In the past year I’ve spent a lot of time thinking, talking, and journaling about my career, values, and interests. Without putting in this time to reflect, on top of noticing what I enjoyed about different aspects of my internship, I would not have gotten half as far. The courage to see if different doors would open for me, to reach out to people and ask for their time and wisdom, was sometimes hard to come by, but my curiosity pushed me to do things that were slightly uncomfortable, and the results were worth it. This is the just the beginning of my career exploration process, and I’m excited to see what comes next. I’ll keep reaching out to people and asking them for information, and I’ll keep paying attention to the kinds of tasks I enjoy doing. Even if I don’t become a research librarian, I will still have learned a lot about myself from this chapter of my career exploration story. Right now, I’m considering pursuing a Ph. D. in a subject area I’m interested in and a masters in library science. I might also attend rare books school or get a masters degree in education or art history. I’m not sure what I’d like to specialize in as a librarian, or how my enduring interest in becoming a grade school Latin teacher fits into this picture, but I’m confident that I’ll figure it out.