Good Morning Ashley,
Back in the Bronze Age in 1972, I completed my post-graduate education in museum studies at the University of Leicester. I returned to my hometown, New Orleans. I could not find a museum job for two years. Then in the summer of 1974, I was offered -- in the same week -- two jobs...... one job as a curator of anthropology at a university museum..... and, the other job,..... serving as a crew member, delivering a sailboat (ketch) from New Orleans to Tahiti. I took the curator job and have been working in museums ever since. The odyssey of finding that first museum job is a recurring story that has been with us for decades.
You may wish to check this list-serve's archives, since this subject has been discussed as long as I have been on this list-serve.
Best Wishes for Success,
Wesley
p.s. four decades later, I still wonder how my life would have changed, if I had taken the job of delivering yachts to distant ports.......
p.p.s. RE: Job Search......The bottom line is PERSISTANCE.
During my 2 years of looking for that first full-time museum job, I remembered President Coolidge's thoughts on PERSISTANCE............
"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
Wesley S. Creel
Administrator of Programs
Pink Palace Family of Museums
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From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ashley Watson
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 2:49 PM
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Subject: [MUSEUM-L] Employment Search Frustrations for the recent graduates
Hello,
I graduated with masters in the museum studies at Syracuse University last May and have not found a job yet despite aggressively applying for various openings within my experience and skill range. I have completed an internship at National Museum of Natural History in the exhibits department and is currently a zooarchaeological/collections intern at the Museum Support Center till this May. Any recent graduates here that have the same frustrating experience? Those internships certainly help keep me sane professionally and personally but I certainly need to begin LIVING. I want to add one thing that I was more than qualified for one position at National Museum of Natural History but didn't break through the annoying human resources "wall". My colleague who was qualified to the maximum also applied for the same position got the same result.
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