The author believes her professional life can be divided into two parts--being a building-level school librarian and being retired, noting that few librarians she has met planned to enter the profession, and like them, she was an accidental librarian. Though trained to be a high school English teacher, she was offered a job after college as a school librarian if she would take two courses to get an emergency license. She began working on her Masters of Library Science at Columbia University, took the job, and discovered that she loved her new profession far more than teaching English. After accepting a later job as an elementary school librarian, she decided to take coursework at Rutgers University to get a Certificate in Supervision. From there, she co-authored books and newsletters related to the field and became active in state and national library associations. She was transferred back to the high school with orders to work on building a new library. After butting heads with a new principal, she once again moved out of her comfort zone and applied for a job out of her district, leaving the security of tenure. Eventually, she retired from being a building-level librarian. She has continued with her writing career, and she now teaches pre-service school librarians, seeing it as a logical extension of what she had been doing to promote leadership for school librarians.