MuseJobs members will recall that
http://www.idealist.org is published on a daily basis
as Opportunities! followed by that days' date.

I had a lot more to say on this subject, but the cyber
censors just ate my post, so I'll go back to lurking.


--- "Jansonius, Remko (Vizcaya)"
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Two sites they may be useful for job seekers in the
> non profit sector,
> whether it's that "great job," or to gain skills for
> future job
> searches:
> 
> www.idealist.org
> www.craigslist.org/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Museum discussion list
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 6:22 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: help with misguided applicants
> 
> Hello again-
> Thanks for all the great discussion thus far; it is
> nice to hear the
> "been 
> there, done that" stories & get sage advice from
> many of you.  I've a
> few other 
> points/queries to add to the fray:
> Yes, I've only been looking since November, but it's
> now January & with
> a load 
> of loans due (despite "funding" I might add) upon
> graduation, working at
> the 
> local convenience store will not cut it.  I didn't
> get into museum work
> for the 
> money (I've yet to meet someone who has); it was
> "accidental".  Being an
> 
> Africanist with Liberian experience, when the
> Liberian Collections
> Project was 
> started up @ IU a few years ago, they were in need
> of grad students to
> do 
> everything from catalogue items to create databases.
>  Two years later,
> I'm 
> still there & love it.  I thought with an MA as of
> May & a few years
> experience 
> I might get a legitimate, full time job after all
> these years of
> schooling.
> I've only applied to non-Africanist positions thus
> far, so it's not like
> I'm so 
> narrow in my search.  As I said, I've yet to see an
> advert for a West
> Africa-
> specific employee in an medical anthro museum or
> otherwise.  I'm looking
> in the 
> Boston area (actually, southern New England) as I'm
> applying to MPH
> (Public 
> Health) programs at Boston U and Yale U.
> Not only have I applied to museums, but also in the
> non-profit & public
> health 
> sectors.  I'm writing my thesis based on research
> I've done on
> poliomyelitis 
> eradication in Nigeria & Niger & hope to continue
> work on communicable
> disease 
> in Africa.  I would ultimately like a job with the
> CDC, WHO, or some
> other 
> similar entity.  
> I will definitely check out the links sent by
> various people to help me
> in my 
> job search.  I also appreciate Indigo's mailings &
> have applied to
> several jobs 
> from those (yet not heard anything back; not your
> fault though
> obviously); I do 
> appreciate them immensely!  Unfortunately, the AAM
> meeting is in May, by
> which 
> time if I don't have a job I'll be moving back in
> with my folks at age
> 27, but 
> I definitely would've gone if I knew about it last
> year (if I wasn't in
> Africa 
> at the time).  If I have a job by then, I'd be
> thrilled to show up there
> & tell 
> you all the good news as well!
> Peace-
> Stephanie
> 
> Quoting Candace Perry <[log in to unmask]>:
> 
> > My orthopedic surgeon said to me a few years
> back...there are 100s of
> me in
> > PA, but only a handful [proportionately, I
> suppose] of you (meaning
> museum
> > curators)!
> > Kinda makes you think when it's put in that
> perspective...
> > Candace Perry
> > 
> >
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> -- 
> Stephanie E. Santos
> Graduate Student
> Dept. of Anthropology
> African Studies Program
> Indiana University
> Bloomington IN 47405
> USA
> 
> "My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only
> be human together"
> ~Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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