In a message dated 6/19/00 10:27:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> The thought that goes through my mind is: where were the course and
>  career advisors when these people were signing up for graduate degrees
>  in a profession that is in long supply and so notoriously low paid.  I
>  doubt that the advisors are working for "mid twenties compensation"
>  but I don't recall a single message that mentions the poor advice, or
>  any advice they were given before amassing a mountain of student loan
>  debt.

Yep. And the sad thing is that careerbuilder.com did a feature on the
education director at the Field Museum in Chicago who was responsible for the
Sue exhibit and listed her salary as $60k-$100K. If that is true, it is
surely exceptional as I know whole education departments that only have a
budget of $60K, which include employee salaries for a few educators. While
the inherent "coolness" of the job was highlighted, nothing was mentioned
about the museum careerfield in general being vastly underpaid for the amount
of education that one needs to enter it. I was glad to see an article on
another, non-techie profession but I think the article made it seem like all
museums pay that well or all jobs are as "cool", which we know, they aren't.

Deb

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