#i possess incredible charisma exclusively for charming museums into hiring me and nothing else

[nedlittle]

Your museum work sounds so lovely!

If it's alright to ask, how did you get into the kind of work you do?

well, the easy answer is that if you're going to work in history, it generally helps to have a degree in it. also a caveat that my museum work is a) not indicative of all museum work and generally a museum studies degree is at the very least helpful b) essentially social media based since i am remote. i was actually supposed to relocate and help with more typically museum stuff (i.e. photographing and cataloguing archives, working the front desk) but due to personal circumstances that was not in the cards and they were gracious enough (and really needed the help) to allow me to alter the position a bit. so instead i get to colour-code spreadsheets and make newsletters and write and research articles with whatever sources they give me. the majority of these articles go on facebook but some of them are direct requests from residents, or occasionally, the local hospital who wanted a blurb about their namesake to put on their website. because this position is so writing-based, i sort of make up for my lack of formal museum education with eng/hist experience instead

if you're in canada and you're currently in school or under 30 and are interested in history and/or museum spaces, check out young canada works and canada summer jobs which is how i got both of my museum jobs