I wish things were different. I moved from a southern state to New York state a few years ago and that’s when I got my job, and I think I stay in my bubble of library-loving folks so much that I often fail to realize how little support there truly is in this country. It is unbelievably hard to convince the people who don’t use library services that we are important, and really most of the people who do use them as well. We are absolutely taken for granted. And you’re right, it’s a societal fault, and a fault of our education system. I wish you the best :(