Yes, I believe you've hit it on the head; "knowledge industry"
indeed.  And knowledge is expensive (ask SallieMae), and
industries are typically taken to the carpet if they do not pay
their employees adequately.  Or, rather, their employees just
leave.

I would add that there is an intangible (and arguably a
preferable one) in museum work that does not exist at
other"knowledge industries" like those in Silicon Valley.  This
more humane industry we've chosen may have perks, but while
we're both worked like dogs, at least those dogs have health
insurance.


---Ross Weeks  wrote:
>
> I think this makes the point.  It's the senior people, where
they exist, who are being paid a salary sufficient to retain
them (but not necessarily to recogize their worth, their
education, their stresses, their supposed lack of any tenure
agreement).  And to me, a PhD in English qualifies one to lead
a museum just as effectively as a PhD in history, art, what
have you.  We are in the knowledge industry, perhaps we forget
it.
>     -----Original Message-----

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