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Originally Posted by audiman08
I was going to teach Social Studies. However, I did a little work in a museum and loved it, so I decided to change my focus to curating or archival work. The museum I worked at lost city funding and became reliant on private donations. One curator and an educator were laid-off, leaving only one curator. Governments will cut costs by eliminating non-essentials first, like art and history museums. Liberal arts falls under non-essential in most fields outside education and psychology. I worked for a year in the public school system, and I know I don't want to teach. That's about it in a nutshell.  |
Have you looked in other parts of the country? If you really love that line of work, then you'll likely have to be willing to move to pursue it.
Often doing what you love and doing what pays well are two very different things. People have to decide which is more important. Also, mid course corrections are almost always possible, but it takes a lot of work and some faith and luck.