u/Thelordkyleofearth

Hey gang!

My daughter has been playing for a couple of years now and just started ay the high school level. Our local club team is new (less than 3 years old) and the coaching is very hit or miss (we're not a big market, so there's not a lot of experienced coaches to draw from).

As a result, we get to be on the receiving end of players who have been coached on how to pull suits/legs/arms/etc, but our kids are left trying to figure it out on their own (also, how to counter it). The refs are also pretty green, most of the time, so the typical things you'd do to draw attention to such play doesn't help.

Are there any resources we can utilize to learn these skills? I know about Shaquatics, but he plays cleaner than the kids we're playing against 🙃.

Thanks!

Hey gang!

I'm curious about what career paths look like after the library. My wife is a librarian in a major public district (in Texas) and we are fairly certain she's got one, maybe two, years left before the position is totally eliminated. This has already happened in neighboring districts, this year they eliminated the last of the library aide positions, and her colleague in another library (within the same district) just had their principal tell them "Enjoy your last year with a library". Needless to say, there's anxiety about job security.

She has worked in special collections (a seminary); in elementary, middle, and high school libraries, the public library system, and a short time at a medical library (she left because the dean was exceptionally difficult to work with). She's strong at cataloging as well.

Unfortunately, the local public branches have been inundated with the displaced librarians from the other districts, so that's going to be a challenging option, if she has to go that route (the city is also cutting their library budgets, so positions could eliminate there as well). The last private school she was at was struggling to pay her $40k/year (without benefits), We can't really afford to take that big of a hit.

I am mostly wanting to support her (and lower her anxiety) by letting her know there are other relevant paths to follow—and that the career she's put more than two decades into isn't for nothing. I have heard that some folks are doing data cataloging for the tech sector, but that seems like a job that AI would easily replace, so I'm not sure if it's actually an option. Where can masters of information science degrees go, aside from a library?

Thanks!