Considering a career as a librarian? Working or volunteering at your local library can be an extremely rewarding experience for the avid book lover or inner control freak. However, frightening small children and having unlimited access to brand new books, movies and CD's that you would otherwise have to pay for at your local Barnes and Noble is not the only perk of being a librarian. No day is a boring day at the library. The following is a list of "the good, the bad, and the ugly" you can expect to encounter in your new career.

The Good

• Earning the power to shush or not to shush.
• Mastering the stereotypical librarian glare.
• Flaunting your poor eyesight.
• Being handed a Golden Rewards Card instead of a library card.
• Having no late fees on that Twilight book you’ve had out for the past month and can still not finish.
• Listening to patrons sharing their life stories with you.
• Gawking at the “hot” patron who ventures into the library once a month, mistaking it for the gym next door.
• Receiving a book that has been overdue by twenty years.
• Being handed a dime for a five-cent fine and being warmly told to keep the change.
• Dropping your quarters into the 1985 Coca Cola machines in the Break room and watching the cans roll out.
• Being mistaken as a genius in every subject known to man.

The Bad

• Discovering pieces of once edible substances (such as bacon, lettuce, and toast) in the book drop. In some cases these objects are apparently used as bookmarks.
• The patron who shares with you the story about how they met a famous celebrity, but each time he/she comes in reintroduces himself and repeat the same story over and over again.
• The patron who tells you to be quiet when you are trying to assist other patrons.
• The cute patron you thank for the complement he paid you, only to discover he was talking into his Bluetooth.
• The patron who refuses to learn how to use the card catalog.
• Telling people you work at a library.

The Ugly

• The stalker patron who brings you birthday cards even though there is no possible way they can know your birthday.
• The patron who leans ever so closely across the counter and breathes heavily into your face.
• The patron who takes a biannual shower, but not in the months he/she chooses to come into your library.
• The patron who farts and walks away when it was only the two of you in the aisle.
• The tornado child, who gets a thrill out of swiping books of of shelves you just straightened.