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Re: job market
Before the day becomes a moaning and winging forum for all underpaid
archivists, you might ask yourself the question - Why did I take this
job when I knew what the pay was? Also, you might ask yourself
why you are still there when you could get paid so much more somewhere
else?
I would like to hear the answers to these questions which might be much
more revealing of us as a profession.
At 08:59 AM 3/29/00 -0500, you wrote:
I'm earning
under $12 an hour for what was recently
referred to as my 'professional expertise'. But that was when I was
being
volunteered as a participant in a program to help other
organizations. I
must take on two and sometimes three jobs, even though this one is full
time, in order to pay the mortgage *and* eat. Add to that, my car
going on
the blink recently, and I literally have to think how to cook to have
well-balanced meals and pay the bills.
No professional should have to live like this.
My 2cents
Ronnie Cunningham
And on budgets like ours, even sparing the two cents can be a challenge .
. .
Best wishes,
Thomas Berry, another $12.00 per hour Archivist
Historical Construction Equipment Association
16623 Liberty Hi Road
Bowling Green, Ohio 43402
419-352-5616
tberry@wcnet.org