The local job market, part 2

From job ads posted by the Ann Arbor District Library:

Rate of pay for a full time administrative assistant, with a high school diploma and 3-5 years experience as an admin assistant or secretary: $34446-$38546. Hourly equivalent rate of pay, assuming 52 weeks per year and 40 hours per week: $16.56 - $18.53.

Rate of pay for a substitute reference librarian, with a master's degree in library science and at least one year of public library experience (preferably three years): $15.54, with no regular schedule and no guaranteed number of hours worked and no benefits. (I have never seen a full time reference librarian position posted by the Ann Arbor library.)

That's right, friends and neighbors! Spend four years of your life and thousands of dollars of your parents money to earn an undergraduate degree, plus a year or two of your life, and several thousand more dollars, earning a master's degree, so that you can go from fulltime salaried work at $16.56-$18.53/hour to casual parttime work at $15.54/hour!

Step right up! Because, you know, there's a shortage of librarians, which demands that the government spend gobs of money to keep their salaries from rising!

Don't miss this opportunity!