ALL museum professionals are having a hard time gaining employment, partially due to too many training opportunities being offered at all the universities/colleges across the country without consideration for the number of potential jobs.  

I keep reading this concept over and over on this listerv.  But something that bothers me about it is -- wouldn't people be complaining at least as loudly if museum degree programs strictly limited the number of museum professionals they graduate far more than they do now because the jobs aren't there, so that many of the people who really want the museum credentials wouldn't be able to get them?  If people did their research before applying to the program to find out what the employment situation is like, and if they decided on other career paths because of it, wouldn't that solve the more professionals than there are jobs problem, too?

What's worse, having a degree in a field you love and not being able to get work in that field, or not being able to get the degree you want in the first place?

Just curious.

Meg Justus
independent curator who works as a contractor -- for set projects with set deadlines, then moves on, by choice -- for several small local museums

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