Life as a library security guard

For those who do not know I am a security guard at the library on Brigham Young University's campus.  Your thinking security guard at a library?  Well the main reason security guards are here is because of the special collection section of the library.  Special collections is a department in the library that collects and gathers cool stuff from around the world that is worth a lot of money.  Every now and then we as security guards get to be escorts on tours through the special collection vaults and archives.  A large majority of the things that are in the vaults are documents, art, books and various other atrifacts associated with the LDS church.  Right now there is a display of the King James Bible and how it has developed over the last 500 years or so. Pretty neat to see.

So other than the cool stuff in special collections, we sit at a desk by 3M sensors and wait for something to set it off, which rarely if ever happens.  When it does happen it is usually some idiotic student who doesn't know that they need to check out books, before they can take them from the library. And I thought Universities were filled with smart people. but that only happens every now and then so most of my time is just sitting in front front of a computer passing the time.  Even though there is not much going on and my job can get pretty boring just sitting around all day, I have found several ways to keep entertained while at work.

1. People Bingo

There are several different types you can play, the one in the picture is hipster bingo

2.  Laugh inside at people who don't know how to use a book drop (which is quite a few)

    

Just the other day there was a person standing in front of the book drop with the most confused look on his face. I asked him what i could help him with, and he asks, "So i just put the books in here?" I told him yes and he proceeded to reach his arms into the book drop slot and gently set the books down, he almost didn't get his arms out.

3.  Watch the stocks/invest

I use Scott Trade which is pretty nice so far, if anyone has any other services they have found, comment below and ill check it out

4.  Watch Netflix/Hulu/those questionable P2P sites that actually have good movies

5. Read

If you know of any good books, leave it in the comments below

6.Stumbleupon

7. Post Stuff to my blog

All of my postings except for one have been posted at work

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So there you have it, that is life as a library security guard. Not always thrilling, but always interesting. 

and here's a funny picture

(read the caption)