I got offered a career in my senior year of college...Help

I am completing my final year of college, and a principal on Linkedin reached out to me. He asked me would I like to be interviewed for the position of librarian at the elementary school he is the principal at. I was a library associate 2/children's librarian at my local public library for almost three years. I major in professional writing (which is a type of English degree), and I am minoring in communications. I am in an honors society, and I don't really have to be involved. It is a lifetime membership. But, I graduate in December of this year. I decided to complete senior year without working, although I worked full-time the previous years. I am kind of nervous to turn down this opportunity. But, I am also nervous to accept it as well. I feel underqualified because I am nervous. But, I also don't know if I should say no or not. What would you do? And does anyone have any advice? I have not responded to him yet. He sent it yesterday. I am still undecided. Please help.

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dancingtongue · 80-89, M

What do you want for a career? If you don't complete your degree the odds are you may never do so and find yourself pretty much locked into a career as a school librarian. Nothing wrong with that if you would be happy with that. A major in writing and a minor in communications suggests you may want more. If the dream is to be a writer, then school librarian with summers off is a pretty good day job to live on while you do your writing and no degree is required to be an author. If your dream is more of a career in mass communications, better get the degree.

I faced a somewhat similar dilemma coming out of high school. I was headed for a journalism degree. I already had been writing for several local newspapers for 3 years. The publisher of one weekly offered me full-time employment and the promise of inheriting a portion of the paper and essentially being mentored to replace him as editor. I had much loftier visions of a journalistic career, turned him down, and got my degree. Given that print journalism already was headed downhill due to TV coverage and continual print mergers and the Internet was waiting to further kill it, and that weekly newspapers were headed to extinction, it was sort of a lose-lose choice in retrospect. But the degree did give me an opportunity to segue into the corporate communications field with a rising non-profit health care company, and a very satisfying and rewarding 40-year career.