Pessimism

"...there is not even any mandatory a priori knowledge necessary to function effectively as a librarian of any persuasion. Any intelligent college graduate can begin working in a special, public, or academic library and quickly learn the skills necessary to catalog, do reference work, manipulate overrated computer systems, or even administer."

Hauptman, R. (1987). The myth of the reference interview.

So why am I putting myself through two years of psychology and algorithms, poverty and toil? So that someday in the dim future I won't be passed up for a promotion.

Yes, I am feeling sorry for myself.