Careers outside librarianship taken on by MLS degree holders

I searched an alumni directory to locate people who had earned the MLS degree in the last years of the 1970s.
I found 411 names, and non-library related business addresses and occupation titles for 45 of the people.
Some of the occupations and/or lines of business are:
Advertising
Probation Officer, Consultant
Patient Case Manager
Training Coordinator for an Accounting and Consulting Firm
Company President
Human Resources Executive
Marketing
Account manager for a temporary employment agency
Owner of a website design firm
Researcher, State Legislature Reference and Research Bureau
Higher Education Administrative position
Higher Education Academic position, earned Ph.D. after MLS
Elementary school teacher
Consultant in various industries
Ordained clergy (2)
Sales person for wholesale construction supplies
Book publishing company
Museum Director
Musician
Executive Director of a Community Foundation
Computer Systems Specialist
Event Catering Service
Sales person for heavy industry industrial tools
Executive with a non-profit youth organization
Museum Curator
Fact checker for publishing company
Construction project manager
Attorney, earned a JD several years after MLS and practices law
Dentist
Free-lance writer
Corporate Trainer
Chief of staff for a Council of Governments
Prior research of the internet located people who are now working as:
Chef (2)
Real Estate Agent (3)
RV Park Manager
Manager of large estate/ranch
Life and property casualty insurance agent (25 years)
Wedding dress designer and shop owner
Organizer and de-clutterer
Accountant
Records Management

The alternative careers of people who graduated in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s may be different because personal computers became part of the work tools of all library staff. The internet first became available to the general public in the early 1990s. Occupations like web developer, did not exist until the 1990s and later.
One way to locate people in alternative occupations is to search for word combinations like facebook, linkedin library science and an occupation or industry
I will search for information about the group from the 1990s and first years of the 2000s, and post new information here. Tom Lindsey, MLS 1975

A silly costume idea for costume events

A friend has started working at a charitable organization resale store. There are many outfits that can be purchased at great prices and used for costume parties.
For ladies who remember the song titled, Devil with the Blue Dress On, a blue dress and a face mask could be a costume.
As for myself, I am costuming as “Inspector Clothesno” of the dreaded FASHION POLICE. I picked out a brown and black tartan pattern men short trouser, a blue, aquamarine, purple, and white tartan pattern shirt, a paisley print tie, and two baseball caps wearing one brim forward and the other brim backward. I am wearing black socks with my sneakers.
“Inspector Clothesno” is on an undercover police assignment as a tourist. I don’t want to have my expensive camera misplaced or stolen, so I will take along a 27 exposure disposable camera that I bought at a drugstore.
Costume cost low, and I can donate the clothing back to the store for future resale. What are your plans for a costume party costume?

My next Project for new careers for Librarians

This list is part of my new project. I will be discussing it with people who participate in some LinkedIn discussion groups for librarians.
Group members, you know how to contact me. :-)

Packaging Materials
Paint Wholesale & Mfr
Painters Euipment & Supplies
Paper Mfrs & Distributors
Paper Products
Paper Tubes & Cores
Parking Lots & Garages Equip & Supplies
Party Favors Supplies & Services Wholesale
Pavement & Floor Marking Supplies
Paving Contractor Supplies
Perfume Raw Materials & Supplies
Pest Control Supplies and Equipment
Pet Supplies Wholesale & Mfs
Pharmaceutical Products Wholesale
Pharmaceutical Containers Equipment & Supplies
Photographic Equipment and Supplies Wholesale
Pipe Fittings
Pipe New
Piston Rings
Plastic Raw Materials
Plastic Supply Centers
Plating Equipment & Supplies
Plumbing Fixtures & Supplies Wholesale
Pneumatic Equipment Components
Point of Sale Equipment and Supplies
Power Transmission Equipment
Printers Parts & Supplies
Printer Equipment
Pumps
Quilting Materials and Supplies
Radiators Wholesale & Mfrs
Railroad Equipment & Supplies
Recycling Equipment Systems and Supplies
Refrigerator Equipment Parts & Supplies
Refrigerators and Freezers Parts and Supplies
Restaurant Equipment & Supplies
Restroom Sanitation Service & Supplies
Riggers Equipment
Riveting Equipment
Rivets
Roofing Materials Wholesale
Rubber Products
Safety Equipment and Clothing
Sandblasting Equipment and Supplies

Screw Machines Products and Parts
Screws
Seals O-Ring
Semiconductor Devices
Service Station Equipment and Supplies
Sewage Treatment Equipment and Supplies
Sewer Cleaning Equipment
Sewing Machines Supplies and Parts
Sheet Metal Equipment & Supplies
Shelves and shelving
Shipping Room Supplies
Siding Materials
Signs Equipment & Supplies
Silicones and Silicone Products
Solar Energy Equip & Systems Mfrs
Sporting Goods Wholesale & Mfrs
Spraying Equipment and Supplies
Springs
Sprinklers Automatic Fire
Sprinklers Garden and Lawn
Steam Cleaning Equipment
Stencils and stencil supplies
Storage Fixtures
Tack Shops
Tanning Salons Equip & Supplies
Tape
Tattoo Supplies
Taxidermists Supplies
Telecommunications Supplies and Parts
Telephone Equipment & Systems
Termite Control Equip & Supplies
Theatrical & Stage Lighting Equipment
Tile
Tire Distributors & Manufacturers
Tool and Die Makers Equip & Supplies
Tools
Tractor Equipment & Parts
Traffic Signs Signals & Equipment
Trailer Equipment and Parts
Transformers
Transmissions Parts and Supplies
Tree Service Equipment and Supplies
Truck Accessories
Truck Equipment and Parts
Truck Washing & Clening Equipment & Supplies
Tube
Tubing Metal
Tubing Rubber
Upholsters Equipment & Supplies
Vacuum Cleaners Parts & Suppliers
Valves & Fittings
Washer and Dryer Parts & Supplies
Water Heater Parts
Water Heater Wholesale
Water Treatment System Equipment Service & Supplies
Water Well Drilling
Welding Equipment Parts & Supplies
Wire & Cable
Wire Cloth
Wire Harnesses Electrical
Wire Products
Wire Rope
Woodworkers Equipment and Supplies
X-Ray Equipment and Supplies

What federal employees should do during their furloughs

In September, 2009, I sent an email to syndicated columnist Jim Pawlak, author of the Career Moves column, titled “What I did on my furlough day.”
I myself was not furloughed, but many employees of the city of Dallas, Texas began a series of mandatory furlough days during the city fiscal year that began September 1, 2009. It was the Labor Day holiday weekend, and I thought about where I was in my work life and what the future might hold.
So, I wrote a list of things that I would do if I really were on furlough or lost my job. Mr. Pawlak polished it up a bit, and it was published in newspapers around the country on October 4, 2009.
It was published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on page 5D.

I found it again in a Palm Beach, Florida newspaper.
This is a URL link to it:

http://jobs.palmbeachpost.com/stories/jobs_recruiter2_main.html

I would move number 19, about calling my wife, to the top of the list.

Texas as Independent Nation: My Speech at a Toastmasters International Meeting

Unfortunately, I ran overtime, beyond the 7 minute, 30 second limit, and I still more to say. I chose the Ukraine as the model nation, because it is about the same size area as Texas, has a seacoast (Black Sea, we have the Gulf Coast), has other countries bordering it just as Texas has another nation Mexico, and states like New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. The Ukraine had and may still have military bases of another nation.
Texas would have to figure out its relations with the U.S. about Fort Bliss, Naval Station Ingleside, all the U.S.A.F. bases, and U.S. Coast Guard bases. I tabulated some of the current federal government functions, post office, copyright, patent and trademark, trade negotiations with other nations, customs, immigration, naturalization, regulation of radio and television stations, and many other things. And what do we do with all the native Texas citizens convicted of felonies or misdemeanors in the remaining 49 states and all the territories and commonwealths of the United States that are deported back to Texas? I think that there are about 2 million prisoners in U.S. correctional facilities. Texas is about 25/312 of the current U.S. population, so we would get back at least 160,000 deportees from those currently in correctional facilities. Then they would try to start deporting the rest of the Texans ever convicted of a felony but residing in the U.S.
Becoming independent in 1836 was a far less complicated project than becoming an independent nation in the 21st century.
I think a senior year undergraduate student could write a very interesting honors thesis about what happens after newly independent nations are established, and lessons to be learned for a Texas independence movement.

Texas as an independent nation: what kind of government would it need?

I belong to a chapter of Toastmasters International. For my project 2, I am working on a speech about what kind of government Texas would need if it were to become an independent nation. The American Civil War of 1861-1865 settled the question as to whether states could deratify their accession to the Constitution of the United States and organize a new nation. {I am sure that MORE than a few readers will disagree with my statement that the issue has been settled for all time.}
There are countries that have separated out of the parent nation during the 20th and 21st century. Bangladesh was formerly known as East Pakistan, countries were separated out of the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s, the former nation of Yugoslavia was separated, the Czech Republic and Slovakia were the former country of Czechoslovakia, Austria-Hungary was split into Austria and Hungary after World War I, and there are other examples.
The life of a Texan in 2013 is a lot more complicated than the life of a Texan in 1836-1845. I think that some people believe that if Texas was an independent nation, the cost of government and governance would be simpler and cheaper per capita than the cost per capita of being citizens within a national government structure composed of 50 states, plus districts, commonwealths, and unincorporated territories. Texas in 1836-1845 did not have electricity, radio and television, the internet, social insurance for the disabled and the retired, airplanes, terrorist groups roaming the world trying to destroy people and nations they did not like, and many more facets of contemporary life.
I only have no more than 7 minutes, so I won’t have a “solution”. It’s just an attempt to call attention to some of the matters that would have to be resolved if Texas actually became an independent country, based on what has happened when other new nations were created.

The War Department Papers manuscript transcription project

I have been looking at scanned and digitally stored manuscripts of the War Department Papers project. The U.S. government from the Revolutionary War era Continental Congress, congress under the Articles of Confederation, and from 1789 onwards under the Constitution, had a “War Department” through the late 1940s. The War Department became the Department of the Army located under the Department of Defense.

I started out looking for materials about the “Daniel Shays’s Rebellion” of 1786-1787 in Massachusetts. If the rebels or insurgents had captured the Magazine at Springfield, Massachusetts, they could have taken 7,000 muskets, gunpowder, and other military equipment. “WHAT IF” is an interesting speculation. They were driven off by a state militia force. The incident was one of the “final straws” that got leading Americans and politicians to decided that the Articles of Confederation needed to be “amended” or “completely replaced”. The end result was a convention in Philadelphia that drafted our national Constitution.
I have transcribed 15 documents and am waiting to get a user name and password to send my work in to the WarDepartmentPapers project. I have worked on manuscripts from Thomas Jefferson, Henry Knox, Benjamin Lincoln, John Pierce, James Deblois, a letter to Johnathan Grant, James W. Henry, Samuel Hodgdon, and John Adams.
I have been looking through the documents from 1788, and have picked documents written by John Pierce, Rufus Putnam, Henry Knox, Oliver Wolcott, Jr., Benjamin Lincoln, and Josiah Harmar.
Contact me for more information about the War Department Papers project in general, or the mansucripts that I have transcribed. None of them are posted yet at the W D P website.

Six years of Lindseyt’s blog, milestone or millstone?

20,932 spam comments blocked117 spam comments waiting to be reviewed. Last year, I said that there were over 20,000 comments in the blocked category.
That would have been an average of 4,000 spams a year during the first five years. Less than 1,000 in the past year.

Is the decrease a permanent trend? Are blogs obsolete, and not even spammers are bothering to post to them? What are your opinions? How can I find information as to the number of currently active blogs, and the number of blogs created year by year in the past. How many new blogs are being created in 2013?

I think I know why the NSA and others believe that it is necessary to monitor so much internet transmission

Not sure why my message explaining why I think that I know why “THEY” think that it is necessary did not get posted.  I am not going to repost it; I have other things to tell you about in other posts.  Sorry for the inconvenience if you were looking for my explanation.

My last work day at the University of Texas at Arlington was December 31, 2012.
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