On a resume, how should you define a volunteer job?  I have 20+ years
experience volunteer experience in museums, doing such various things as
cataloging collections, helping mount exhibits, writing press releases and
interpreting pioneer crafts for school kids.  When I describe these various
positions in a resume for a potential employer, I usually get the
response "you have a lot of great volunteer experience, but..."  (The
implied end of this sentence being "those weren't REAL jobs.")  Now that I
DO have a real job, I am constantly at loggerheads with a board of
directors that has very little understanding of how to run a museum.  Their
response to me is, "Thank you for your input, but..." (the implied end of
that sentence being, "you don't know what you're talking about").

Susannah West
John Rankin House, Ripley, Ohio

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