This question inevitably comes up in any social gathering when you meet people for the first time. Reactions to the response that I am a librarian range from the amusing to the aggravating.
Some people reduce their voice levels to a whisper.
Others lean forward as though expecting you to begin quoting from Webster's Third International Dictionary. Still others eye you suspiciously as though they secretly believe you probably arrange the items in your kitchen in Dewey Decimal order. Resisting the urge to assure them that nothing beyond sixth grade is needed, I calmly state that in addition to an undergraduate degree, a masters degree in library science is required, and that for academic librarians a second masters degree is expected. And recently I was met with just the opposite reaction. Such are some of the myths surrounding librarianship.