Have you thought about trying to get some practical museum experience? It's not exactly a field that's *easy* to break into, but I suspect it may still be easier to find a job in that field than it is to find permanent employment with a university. And it shares a lot of the attractions of university work, IMO. (Such as researching interesting stuff...) It's more difficult to find internships and traineeships at our age, but not impossible.
Yeah, I've been thinking about that. Probably, however, as my PhD doesn't have a 'material culture' aspect (which I'd be able to deal with, though), it would be easier to get an opportunity in an archive. A museum job would be way more interesting, though, as archival work is usually not much more than managing content - the 'proper' research work is usually done by historians, literary scholars etc. The 'solution' might be two or three part-time jobs. I'm not yet sure how that can work out, but I hope to be able to continue doing research, somehow. Everything else would mean giving up a crucial part of my 'identity'.
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Date: 2011-02-20 09:27 pm (UTC)Yeah, I've been thinking about that. Probably, however, as my PhD doesn't have a 'material culture' aspect (which I'd be able to deal with, though), it would be easier to get an opportunity in an archive. A museum job would be way more interesting, though, as archival work is usually not much more than managing content - the 'proper' research work is usually done by historians, literary scholars etc. The 'solution' might be two or three part-time jobs. I'm not yet sure how that can work out, but I hope to be able to continue doing research, somehow. Everything else would mean giving up a crucial part of my 'identity'.