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When you walk into the office soaring high and assuring everyone it’s going to be a GREAT week. And then 20 minutes the curator responsible for 20+ in-development exhibits rage-quits in a glorious trainwreck.

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Why do I now envisage the rest of the week for this team looking like this?:

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AHAHA. A mix between that and gifs of people crying under desks.

When you walk into the office soaring high and assuring everyone it’s going to be a GREAT week. And then 20 minutes the curator responsible for 20+ in-development exhibits rage-quits in a glorious trainwreck.

#yes I know I've used this gif before #but there is no other gif that adequately captures WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED #WHO QUITS A MUSEUM JOB #Jesus christ I spent 11 months applying to museum jobs and praying on wishing stars and homeboy just THROWS IT AWAY?!

Reminiscing about my final semester of grad school

#hint: the someone was me #museum life #museum studies

Friday Hangovers:

During gradschool:

After grad school

#how did my tolerance get so low?!?!#going up on a thursday #I HAD TWO GINS #TWO #post grad life #gradschool #museum studies

When the all-women ethnology staff has to gather around the lunchroom with our period-tracker apps trying to figure out the best dates for First Nations elders visits because menstruating women are not allowed around sacred materials:

#CANT TOUCH THIS #No seriously though can't touch pipes when you're menstruating #museum life #ethnology #museum jobs #museums #YES I AM LONGWINDED THANK YOU VERY MUCH

When the museum’s writer sends you a list of exhibit titles for a Fur Trade display that includes “Battle for Beaver”

#I'm not even lying #I literally died #It sounds like something you do to haze frat pledges #museum life #museums #museum studies

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My daily mantra.

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TWO YEARS LATER AND NOTHING HAS CHANGED

When other departments tell me how to do my job: pt 2

Text Draft: The dentalia shells found at this 4000 year old site are evidence the band’s trade connections reached as far away as the Pacific Ocean. Audience Advocacy: Describe the Pacific Ocean. You need to tell our visitors where the Pacific Ocean is. You can’t just assume they’ll know where the Pacific Ocean is.

YOU CAN’T JUST ASSUME THEY KNOW WHERE THE PACIFIC OCEAN IS GUYS

#seriously I think they're just fucking with me now #I died #Also - we need to explain PACIFIC OCEAN but not Dentalia?#They are legit trolling me #Why can't our education team be like the education teams I see on tumblr #WHY?#WHYYYYYYY?#museum life #it was really hard to pick a gif for this because I HAD SO MANY REACTIONS TO THIS

When other departments tell me how to do my job.

“Cowboy is a gendered, exclusionary, and sexist term. Can you use something more progressive? Like Cowpeople?”

NO. ITS A STORY ABOUT A NORWEGIAN FAMILY OF BROTHERS WHO WANTED TO BUY A RANCH BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO BECOME - DIRECT QUOTE - “COWBOYS”.

#IT WAS 1890 DUDE #THERE WERE NO COWGIRLS #They also wanted it to be more racially diverse #Were there any japanese cowboys?#NO ACTUALLY ITS HARD TO BELIEVE BUT THE JAPANESE ON THE PRAIRIES IN THE 1890s WERE NOT BIG INTO RANCHING #MAYBE BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT WOULDNT LET THEM OWN LAND #COWPEOPLE?!!??!#museum life #museum job

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So can you write the legal contracts for our 20 panel advisory board? And the contract summaries? And calculate travel expenses and approve it with finance? By noon would be great.

#I WAS HIRED AS A COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT #museum life

“We don’t pay in dollars but we do pay in experience!”

#EXPERIENCE DONT PAY MY RENT HOMIE #museum jobs #internships #museum studies #museum life #EXPERIENCE IS NOT A FORM OF CURRENCY #unpaid internships #Honestly if you're not going to pay me just be serious about it - dont try and get cutesy with my finances

When everyone at the museum is away at the fun fall gathering but you have deadlines and meetings all day

When your boss tells you they’ve worked at the museum since they were 18

EXCUSE ME WUT?

I’m suddenly envisioning her like:

#frolic you beautiful unicorn you #frolic #REAL LIFE FUCKING UNICORNS RIGHT HERE #museum jobs #museum studies #Baby boomers are so ridiculously spoiled sometimes #Oh I'd like a job in our field that I can lock down for four decades if you dont mind #no no unpaid internships for me thanks #SERIOUSLY LOOK AT THESE GODDAMNED GLORIOUS UNICORNS

When you’re planning a large scale new history museum and the audience team choses four target audiences: toddlers, slightly older children, children in packs, and youths

WHERE ARE THE ADULTS?! WHERE?!

Swear to god. It’s not even a Children’s museum.

#WHERE ARE THE ADULTS #WHERE?#WHERE ARE THEY?#THIS CITY HAS 600000 ADULTS AND YOU DONT WANT TO PROGRAM FOR ANY OF THEM #ARE YOU CRAZY #museums #museum life #JUST BECAUSE YOU WANTED TO WORK AT A KIDS MUSEUM DOESNT MEAN YOU CAN MAKE MY MUSEUM ONE

When you make a perfect, flawless, magnificent and truly glorious hat mount.

#they're the hardest #no but seriously #submisson #museum life #museum

PIGEON INFESTATION IN THE DUCTS ABOVE THE TEXTILES COLLECTION. THIS IS NOT A DRILL

#conservation #collections management #museums #fucking infestation #shit was literally dripping out of the vents onto buffalo robe mountie outfits #literally #dripping out of the vents #i quit

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