Everything from my childhood influenced my decision to become a librarian; I just did not see it at the time. I don’t remember thinking much in high school about what job I might have as an adult, and I hadn’t thought to bring these kinds of questions to my parents. I had been raised to be self-sufficient, and what I could figure out on my own, I figured out on my own. More existential questions like “What do I want out of life and how might I get there?” were ones I asked, but I wasn’t sure how to go about answering them.
