Please, can we all agree that it is a hard field to find a job, everyone
understands that we have bills and loans to pay, that internships and
volunteering are important, and networking is the key.  We, as recent
grads, are not whining, but just venting frustration to other professionals
who actually have jobs and just asking for some sound advice on acquiring
those jobs.  I totally understood that the museum field would be a hard job
market, but like everyone else, I am pushing out those resumes every week.
I am working in a temporary full-time job and plan to do some volunteer
work.  I find myself motivated and still positive about finding a job,
(though, I get very frustrated and impatient).  But this is just my two
cents, and please don't send me hate email!! (ha)
Jennifer Flint








At 03:54 PM 6/18/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Folks,
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>I am having a real hard time with this whining.It sounds as though some of
>you were conscripted into grad school and/or the museum field. Did a
>recruiter come to you and promise you a job at MOMA, or what?
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>Take responsibility for the decisions you made. You are not the only
>people who worked for years to earn a degree that may never actually get
>you a job. And as for paying off your debts . . . again, take
>responsibility. It took
>me 15 years to earn my degrees - a BA in Creative Arts, a MFA in Sculpture
>(now there are some degrees with little promise of employability!) because
>I worked in a grocery store so I could pay for school.
>
>Competition in the museum field is stiff and the work itself is hard. If
>you don't have what it takes to stick with it get out early.
>There are lots of other creative fields which pay better.
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