As many of you know, for 3-1/2 years, I've been providing job leads to the folks on MuseJobs. In order to get them, I have a series of sites where I have searches saved, and each day, the sites provide me the leads. One of my frustrations in that regard is that I have to go through and cull the information from the search results (though I do provide the groups jobs with transferrable job skills because there aren't enough museum jobs, and folks need to work to pay down debt and to live). One of the problems I see is that MANY of the nonmuseum type results I get are from for-profit corporations that, in trying to entice folks to apply for jobs, are advertising their proximity to museums. I have 10 searches set up for http://www.ajb.org , with up to 200 results for each search, and there are countless ones where hospitals and other types of organizations show up because they stick the words museum, aquarium, library, etc., in there. So, as I'm going through the searches this morning and thinking of the Dorothy comments, I'm thinking that, if they're advertising that they have you in their backyard, it would seem to me that they may be the first you want to approach about saving you and the jobs. If they're being enriched because you are there while you are struggling, why not try to bring them into your pocket and perhaps to get them to post ads on your behalf? You'll have to get creative about this, but you could encourage them to be good stewards in the community from which the corporations are economically profiting. I see this on other searches as well. http://www.careerbuilder.com , where I have 5 preprogrammed searches, often mixes museums in there for the same reason. They use the same keyword I'm seeking but produce much different results. My suggestion would be that you query on the keywords yourself in the area you seek (AJB.org certainly has this capability) and see who is using you such that you can tell them to put their money where their mouth is. Indigo Nights [log in to unmask] ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).