Maybe you could be a management/analyst at a museum? Seriously,
     there are all kinds of non-curatorial, and even non-programmatic
     jobs in museums. There are administrators, there are fundraisers,
     there are PR people, operations people, etc. Obviously, there are
     more of these at larger museums than small. And the sad truth is
     that these folks often get better pay than the people on the
     curatorial/educational side of things, since there is more
     competition from the for profit sector (I have an MBA, and I
     could, in theory, earn a bunch more in the for-profit sector, so
     my pay in the nfp world is commensurately higher)

     I ain't getting rich, but over the past 15 years, I've earned a
     reasonable living in administrative and fundraising capacities in
     museums large and small in NYC.  I might enjoy the for profit
     world too, though I've never really worked in it.

     Eric Siegel
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