HA!  Actually Cheryl I was feeling about the same way
with this post.  I would dream of the day I could get
a dot com, but I can't seem to do it, if only because
I can't bring myself to sacrifice my tendancies
towards preservation and museums.  Sigh.  But hey, if
anyone wants to hire a freelancer, keep me posted. HA!
:)

Aaron
--- Cheryl Maslin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I find it highly ironic, if not downright absurd,
> that after several
> rounds of expressed frustration and returned
> responses from persons
> employed in the non-profit/museum sector regarding
> the low wages earned,
> that-
> persons who left the non-profit world to work for
> for-profit dot-coms
> and have lost their jobs are turning to a presumably
> for-profit head
> hunter business for jobs in the low-paying and
> supposedly over-filled
> non-profit sector of museums.
>
> I also wonder if any potential future employers will
> take note of this
> and not hire me for expressing my own
> perspective...?
>
> Cheryl Maslin
> Assistant Registrar/Collections Database Coordinator
> University of California, Berkeley Art Museum
>



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Aaron Marcavitch
www.aaronmarcavitch.com

(current) M.A. in Public History
Middle Tennessee State University

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