<p>I've been accepted to several schools of library science for this fall, and have more or less decided which to attend and mapped out the finances and my classes and whatnot. I don't know if it's the April 15th pressure, or the exciting/threatening prospect of graduation or what, but I'm suddenly having doubts that I've chosen the right career path.</p>
<p>I chose to become an academic science librarian because it makes decent money, places me in a more or less low stress environment, allows me to stay involved in the sciences and aid in research without being in a laboratory (I worked in one for a while, and really didn't like it), and I'm very good with categorization and like helping people find things. But there is a central difficulty that's really bothering me: there are few jobs, and I'll have to move to whatever institution gives me one. And if I can't find an open position related to my field (biology), I'll be stuck cataloging or working the reference desk at a public library part-time. This would make things very difficult for my significant other, plus give me very little liberty to decide where I go and what I'll do.</p>
<p>I'm probably just panicking suddenly for no reason, and asking this to the wrong crowd anyhoo (y'all tenure-bound doctoral students will have it much harder than me), but do you think this is a significant enough hiccup to consider changing tracks to something safer, like secondary science teaching?</p>