What is it like working at the public library part-time nights and weekends?

Is there anyone who have worked 20 hours a week at the public library? Will this interfere with my regular 8am-5pm job? They are offering some evening and weekend hours. I am looking for something part-time to enhance my income. This job will pay $10.00 an hour unlike working in retail making $6 to $8 an hour. Please do not post fly by night jobs. I am not interested.|||A library can be a busy place, especially evenings and weekends. It can be interesting - and you'll be surprised at how much is involved in running a library. Depending on what they have you doing, you'll probably be on your feet a lot. But if you like to read, an advantage is you can see the new books when they come in.





It shouldn't interfere with your other job, as long as it's clear up front when you are available to work and when you aren't.





Good luck.|||I'd suggest that you take the job because you have a clear reason why it would work for you. After school is the busiest time in a library and often enough, it can be unpleasant. with mouthy teen upset about Myspace or a group of noisey handicapped adults and their leaders - the leaders almost always have too much attitude.





That clears up at 6, though, when they go home for dinner. I'm answering this at 9 and it was pretty quiet. A few parents brought home-schooled teens in to work on an assignment and so there were lots of books piled on tables. The WiFi went out - it does that often. People sneek food and drinks in the stacks more at night, and you'll have to enforce the no-eating policy. No big deal usually, though, mostly it's ignorance, people are so used to Barnes and Noble, I'm surprised no one's asked me for a free sample of a scone.





The hardest part for you MIGHT be working with a librarian that doesn't want you to talk to the patrons, give them directions, or even answer what's your favorite book. Some can be real jerks. Then, there's not a lot of advice I can give you, you can't go over their head. That's the way libraries have run for decades. If you are put in that sort of a situation, your only choice is to follow directions. Bummer, huh?