Academically-minded and obviously public as a blogger, but

....thank G-d not an academic or public librarian.

I was reading the latest post from the Annoyed Librarian and the references and responses--oh boy, makes me glad that I am an approaching-middle-age school librarian. No obsession here about moving up the career ladder. I make enough and have enough benefits to be satisfied financially as long as I keep climbing those union-mandated salary steps. I like where I work despite the problems there. Yes, there are the "superstar" school librarians out there but few of them remain working in schools, which means they have to be celebrity enough to give up school-district benefits. Do I have further ambitions? Yes, I'd like to get back to my writing, publishing here and there. But I feel sorry for people like Meredith Farkas or this Brian person who, for personal, financial, nature-of-the-academic-library career--feel they must convince the world they are superstar librarians to survive.