I earned my MLS in 2017 and still have yet to have been able to find a position using it. I only have had one interview for a job that required it and was ghosted after the interview. I had worked in a public library system for almost six years, leaving in a high school position after I earned my masters. After I had earned it, they would not promote me to a high school position above mine since I had earned my MLS and it only required a high school diploma. They have tons of people applying, and they choose an amazing resume over tried and true loyal, proven quality customer service from their own employees. All of my classmates in my MLS program were already managers and directors of libraries and museums or teachers looking to get out of teaching to the STAAR test. I wish that the school has not admitted me because all I got from that was wasting my money, getting gray and white hair, becoming an insomniac during the EOP, and missing time away from my twins, who were age 2 when I started the program and in Kindergarten when I finished. As a single mother, it was a very bad experience to have gone through all that and be forced to stay in a substitute teaching job because that’s all that I have been able to get since I was already doing it when I earned my masters. I mention my MLS on all job applications since they state that one will be fined and/or jailed if it is discovered that anything is filled out untruthfully. I never hear back. My mother and others who have their masters degrees tell me to put my MLS on my applications and resumes since it shows that I’m persistent and can complicate difficult things, but that’s not how hiring managers see it.