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Sue talks about her job as a Children's Services Development Officer in a local council

Sue's interview

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My name is Sue Wink and I'm a Young People and Children's Services Development Officer - that's a posh title for a person in charge of children's libraries.

I think young people will absolutely adore working in a library, it isn't the traditional "Ssh, be quiet." It offers absolutely anybody a range of different careers. As long as they think "Ooh I'm all right working with people." Think of librarianship, because that's the key to everything.

I always wanted to be a teacher, I remember going home one day from school and saying to my mum, "I don't want to be a teacher anymore." So she said, "What on earth are you going to do?" So I said, "I heard there's a job in the library."

When I went for my interview I evidently said the right thing because they said, "Why do you want to be a librarian?" and I said, "Because I like people."

I set up a house-bound library service and we went to prison libraries and mental hospitals. It was interesting to say the very, very least. At one of the mental hospitals I went into I was actually stabbed, but you're probably going edit that out!

I've no regrets about the career path that I took; I think it was absolutely the right one for me. To end my career, which I will be doing in this post, is the very best thing. I do know when I leave in a few months time; I'm not going to be very happy, I shall be very sad and you'll get me crying again so don't! Stop it!

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