Although many music librarians achieve the position by performing, my career involved several additional layers of being in the right place at the right time. Despite years of violin and viola lessons, I wasn't dedicated enough to play professionally and I knew enough about myself not to pursue teaching; since I thought those were the only two jobs in music, I went to college intending to become a radio producer. Looking for work with the impressive "special interdisciplinary degree in auditory arts", but with my only practical experience on outdated equipment, I reluctantly went to cattle calls for opera choirs, and eventually ended up in an office Army recruiter looking at telecommunications jobs. While I was working through the enlistment process, the U.S. Army Field Band and Soldiers' Chorus came to my hometown on tour, and there were vacancies for the choir in the program; I auditioned the next month and attended basic training two months later. Once in band, I tended to spend my free time in the library because that's where the Mac users were. I became assistant choir librarian, then choir librarian, then assistant librarian, all while performing; when the full-time librarian retired and her position was opened for internal auditions, I was the only candidate who, when asked to hand out a march to the concert band, asked “which edition?” So I became the librarian. Like any performance library, the Field Band library is an information center for the organization, collecting, synthesizing and distributing information to and from various levels within and outside the band, and its ultimate goal is also the same. : to have the right music in the right place at the right time. It's similar to... middle of paper......there are fewer professional band librarians than professional euphonium players. I really like this paragraph but I don't know where it should go, or if it belongs anywhere at all—I don't have the courage to cut it at all: today, in the first hour of work, I explained to a conductor why the new arrangement requested will not be available for rehearsals next week (“not up to the arrangers -to-do list; according to your previous email, it was on the back burner”), advised a choir member on what to prepare for a conducting audition (“I know this sounds unoriginal, but if you can get in and out of the male audition) section of Battle Hymn, that shows you have some chops”), and I spoke to an intellectual property lawyer about whether auditions via YouTube would be legal. Every half hour, Outlook reminds me to pay last quarter's royalties for music downloaded from our website and I hit Snooze..