If we as museum employees settle for what you are telling us yes we will
continue to get low paying jobs.  I expect more pay for my degrees and I
will get more for my degrees.  I think its high time that people started
demanding the respect that we deserve and it starts one person at a time.  I
will not work my ass off for some low-level museum job just to get my foot
in the door.  I will enter this profession with the respect and pay I
deserve with no thanks to the status quo.

Traci
>
>So, that's what I meant when I said it's easier to moonlight when you are
>young. I speak from much experience, and if I had it to do all over again,
I
>would work my ass off to get some low-level museum job that paid crap from
the
>get-go because all you need is that first one to get started. If that first
>opportunity comes too late, it may be impossible financially to even
consider
>taking it.
>