It's going to be a very hot Wednesday. Great, I have to spend time listening to Mom complain about the weather. I usually just tune her out anyway. I did something positive yesterday, I applied for an assistant curatorial position at the Hammer Museum in West Los Angeles. One of the nice things is that it came via a job generator so I set up a profile and alert for other museum jobs. I hadn't thought about working in a museum for a very long time. It was something I considered when I studied for my undergrad degree but didn't pursue it too much. The more I think about it, the more appealing it sounds. It can't be anymore difficult then pursuing a job in preservation. Not that I'm giving up on that, on the contrary. I don't see museum work or preservation as mutually exclusive. They're allied fields. I not getting my hopes up about scoring this position at the Hammer but I like the thought of it. It's like going right back where I started. There's another possibility at the Natural History Museum near The Nest. It's kind of strange that every so often I get these reminders that I need to go back to the beginning, back to basics. When I first started down this academic/professional path, I genuinely thought that I would end up in a museum. I discarded that idea because at the time real museum jobs were far a few between. I thought that I needed to latch onto something far more solid and practical. I don't plan on giving up my urban planning and design interest, I think museum work would be an interesting platform for it. I'm getting ahead myself here but wouldn't be great to find a way to combine it. Anyway, I'll check in later to see if there's anything and keep applying to museums and preservation jobs. Hopefully something will stick.
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