After completing my internship in a city (Saint John, NB) not in the city in
which I studied nor one that I was from, I went on to work as a GM  for a
theatre company in a town of 500 people. I have a grad degree in Arts
Administration Concordia University, Montreal, Canada and would like to
focus in heritage. I then went back to school for a few months and then
found my self in my home town (Yarmouth, Nova Scotia) helping people to
start their own businesses and freelance writing for an arts mag. I then
moved to Northern Ontario to take a job. I now live in Toronto and cannot
find a job. Sometimes the small towns are the best way for at least five
years..it can be frustrating living in them, pay is low, more travel to see
things...but there is a certain quality of life you do not find in a big
city.
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Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: Looking for input


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Ross Weeks
> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 1999 11:46 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Looking for input
>
> > It would be interesting to know if the university "museum studies"
> programs
> > give much thought to placing their graduates in the small towns with
small
> > museums.  It seems from Museum-L postings that job-hungry graduates are
> > centering their efforts on the big urban places?
>
> As a recent grad of a museum studies program at the University of
> Washington, my perception is that many students would prefer to 1) stay in
> the area that they attended school (in this case, Seattle), or 2) to
return
> to a hometown or home region.  Moving to a completely new place is a
distant
> third option, particularly a small town where they know no one.  The
> coordinator for our particular program actively encourages students to
leave
> the Seattle area, since the market is becoming sturated here to some
extent.
>
> I would be interested to hear about other museum studies programs and what
> efforts they make - if any - to place students. Grads at the UW rely
> primarily on museum contacts in Seattle to help in their job search, or
> utilize Aviso and AASLH publications to find opportunities.
>
> Erica Maniez
> Issaquah (a very small town with a very small museum!) Historical Society
>
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