Recently, I had the opportunity to talk with a student at Pratt Institute, my alma mater. She was "shadowing" me for the day. I recounted that I used to work at a law firm and made the switch to a public library. I told her that I came here because when I worked at the firm, the online searcher left to return to San Diego, where she was from. I asked my supervisor to promote me, and Lotta hired someone else. The young library science student wondered: "You stayed in the field after that? ...