There is nothing wrong with having an opinion of yourself. We all have one, just as we have opinions of others, except that they are not as important to us. What's another word for it? Ego,  (back to Psychology 101 Freshman year in Tucson)  Not to be confused with "Sense of Self" which I think is the ID. I could be way of base here. As I am a librarian let me check.

• Ego: the one of the three divisions of the psyche in psychoanalytic theory that serves as the organized conscious mediator between the person and reality especially by functioning both in the perception of and adaptation to reality
   
• ID: the one of the three divisions of the psyche in psychoanalytic theory that is completely unconscious and is the source of psychic energy derived from instinctual needs and drives -- compare

That was actually a trick, because it let me use the phrase "As I am a librarian let me check" . . . I don't think of myself as a librarian. My sense of self places my appreciation of my character or personality at odds with what I know or suspect  librarians to be  -  I am always quick to tell a story about how I became a librarian . . . it was an accident, I was digging ditches during the day and bartending at night, I wanted to get away from the party scene (mostly the weird drugs). While I was a party man, a likely lad at my core I depended upon books, I craved intellectual stimulation. I knew some librarians who were pretty cool, and after getting back from a road trip to Seattle, I applied to the U of A library school and they flatly told me I would never get into the program, Always up to prove the MAN wrong I applied, persevered and . . . blah, blah. It's all part of my opinion of myself. The fact is I have paid the bills for 10 years being a librarian. So like it or not I am one * albeit one who at his core feels that he is not.

And while I generally distance myself from the population of librarians, there are some interesting ones out there on the fringe. They for the most, do not place the idea of being a librarian at their core either. An aside - there are some  attractive librarians, many of whom are very interesting people. Most are a lot smarter than me although we seem to get along. I am off the idea of sense of self here. so this goes into a new musing  What motivates people to gravitate towards fields like "Library Science".

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Misleading, I am not interested in 95 % of the people who define themselves as librarians. It is the ones whose sense of identity prevents them from classifying themselves as librarians that interest me. Okay I used the word "classify" which all the librarians are zeroing in on as an indication that I am a librarian. I already admitted that I am a librarian, I reserve the right to take the best or at least most useful traits, terms and ideologies from this profession. It is MY due, payback for all of the times I carried the conversation, picked up the paycheck, drank to much at conferences and danced the funky chicken. Anyway what motivates a person to become a librarian? I would  be interested in getting the REAL story from librarians that I find interesting. The story that comes out while you are sitting in a dark bar somewhere, when you are cracking a beer as the water from a moving river swirls around your ankles, or you are sitting on a patio somewhere trying to avoid the party goers inside.

Take a risk . . . How I became a librarian . . .

Anyway I digress, there are interesting people out there who are currently librarians, So I will stop here and just link to the Goliard response of a fairly humorous editorial on Library Science. In doing this I hope to also give a plug to the Goliard, which indicates that are sense of self is not tied to how we pay the bills.

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