Now that my Home Boy Ross has jumped into this thread,
I do have a couple of thoughts.

For each of you who has posted to the list about
wanting museum jobs or internships, I have taken to
privately posting my employment web page, that (though
in need of tidying) has some good nonprofit and
museums information.  That link is here:

http://victorian.fortunecity.com/stanmer/414

However, as graduation fast approaches I would like to
suggest that language be incorporated into the
guidelines that new members to this list receive.  It
appears that we have an abundance of new members who
regularly jump in and say "Where can I get a job."

I appreciate the fact that the jobs are needed and, if
that were not the case, I wouldn't have created my
employment web site or taken the time to post it
privately each time someone asks.

However, just arriving on the scene, never offering
anything to the discussion, and wanting to know about
where that person can get a job strikes me, as often
as it has come up, as showing up at someone else's
home and demanding to know just what we're going to
give them for dinner (and no, they're not offering to
help themselves in that process except to ask here).

I would like to see language incorporated into the
guidelines that says READ THE ARCHIVES FIRST if you
have an employment question and possibly a few of the
other more popular ones (like which degree).

The archives contain a wealth of information that
should not be ignored, or else the archives should be
dumped as wasted bandwidth.

In addition to this pointer (which I think would cut
down on some of the traffic on that topic, and I'm not
trying to discourage anyone from using this venue as a
resource, just suggesting they be smarter about it),
I'd like to offer the search primer I wrote last year
that was adopted by the Jefferson County, Colorado (I
live in CA) school district.

So much of what is asked can be found with some
initiative and the skills to know how to look.  The
problem stems from the fact that too few people have
been adequately trained to search the web.  My primer
is not a be-all and end-all, but it will put you
further ahead in your quest.  That site can be found
at:

http://204.98.1.2/isu/home/search.html

Since this was written almost a year ago, I have
learned of some new search engines to add to what I
included above.  I would recommend you also consider
using:

http://www.alltheweb.com
http://www.metor.com
http://www.go.com
http://www.baldey.com
http://www.searchbots.net/

Many ways to skin the proverbial cat.  With feline
stealth and some good common sense, you can find most
of what you're looking for, in far fewer key strokes.

Please, no rotten tomatoes or old oranges.  They hurt
when you pitch them my way.

--- Ross Weeks <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Greetings and best wishes to everyone who is
> beginning to search for an entering position at a
> museum somewhere.  The semi-annual "resume posting"
> queries have begun.  There has already been an
> extended interchange over the value of a graduate
> degree in obtaining work at a museum somewhere.
> Time for those of us out in the boondocks to roll
> out the red carpet once again!  The problem is, we
> can't afford new carpet.
>

=====
Indigo Nights
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