I thought this was rude and very disrespectful too! She just wanted some information from some professionals in the field in a supposedly safe and respectful venue. Unfortunately, this is one of the problems with this emotional issue and this opinion is the same as many of museum corporate America. Unless we give our selves value, how can others value us. I am surprise that there is not a union for our profession.
-----Original Message-----
From: Verzuh, Valerie [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tue 12/17/2002 12:35 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Cc:
Subject: Re: Pay scales
A very bitter and rude reply to a simple question.
-----Original Message-----
From: William Maurer [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 8:49 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Pay scales
Well, sometimes they are called volunteers!
There is no such thing as being underpaid. You make what you are worth.
If you do not like the pay, you leave or in your case don't accept the
job. If there is someone who replaces you and takes the job immediately
at your old pay and duties, then you were paid correctly. I feel that
your note here is a sign of not checking the museum market at all, not
looking even at the jobs on the internet. There must be some reason you
want to stay at that particular place and position. Then, work out a
comfortable agreement with the Director. If it is not satisfactory for
you, then don't accept it. Look around. This is obviously your first job
besides selling lemonade or cookies.
Sorry, Melissa, you didn't touch my Christmas heart strings with this
plea. Is it better than or does it appeal to you to be better than
working at McDonald's? Realize you are not going to retire from this
position. You need to learn the business and that means a satisfactory
and happy position and hope later to make the big bucks. And if that is
your goal - find another field. Hey, try full time fund raising or grant
writing. These folks seem to be paid better than us poor museum guys and
gals.
Why don't you write out the job description and then work on it with the
Ex. Director? (Find these job descriptions on the net.) Then you can go
job point by job point in come up with some figure that makes the
Director happy and you at least comfortable to use his shop to learn the
business until you are ready to be promoted or find another museum.
Of course the correct way to do this is to make your money in another
field and then come back into the museum business when you can afford to
work for the love of the job and not necessarily the money.
Good luck and good hunting.
C.F.William Maurer, Director - Gomez Mill House
Tel (845) 236-3126
Fax (845) 236-3365
www.gomez.org
"Could this old house but speak, it might justly echo for the present
generation of Americans the Colonial maxim declaring freedom of
conscience to every man, whether Jew, or Turk, or Papist, or whomsoever
steers no otherwise than his conscience dares."
The Craftsman, October 1909
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