At 9pm tonight, my mother will be retired. This is the end of an era: 39 years as a librarian, and she’s finally retiring.
She retired once before. After being a school librarian for 30 years, she “retired” and kept working as the director of the public library all the way up until today: almost 10 years later. The kicker is that she was already the public library director when she left my hometown’s high school librarian position. She had been doing BOTH jobs FULL time while I went through my senior year of high school and most of college. She would work a full day at the high school, and then she would walk across the parking lot to the Nutley Public Library, just a few yards away. She would there until 9pm, then most Saturdays, until after 4 years of these she had her 30 years at school and retired.