Where Next?
Apr. 27th, 2007 09:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unforthSo now that I'm done with school and I didn't get into school in Boston, I thought I'd post a general thing on what the heck happens now, so that people will have at least a little idea what the heck to expect from me.
The job hunt begins immediately. I've already got a list of 25 jobs that I thought had potential for me. I will continue to hunt for a job either until I get one I find acceptable or until September 1st. If I haven't found a job by September 1st, I will discontinue job hunting. Why, you ask? Well, I fully intend, next March, to reapply to the North Bennet Street School. If I get in on my second try - a much, much more likely prospect than getting in on my first try, especially if I continue to improve my mad book binding and preservation skillz - I would start school there on September 1st, 2008. Simply put, I think it would be incredibly bad form to take a job that I know I will not be at for longer than a year, and probably pretty hard to find a position in that situation anyway. So if I haven't found a job by then, I will hang out in Bloomington for another year working at the lab as long as I can get away with, maybe taking a class or two (but probably not ;) ) and doing things like going up to Ann Arbor to take book binding workshops there (they have a book binding thing there) and generally taking other workshops and such, also to develop the afore mentioned mad skillz.
The only other condition I can stay in Bloomington is if my boss gets hired and I can manage to get her job. Since she turned down the Smithsonian, there's no knowing when/if she'll be offered another position. She had an interview at Northwestern last week, though, so here's hoping.
Aside from that, the jobs break down pretty simply.
16 of the jobs are working as some sort of preservation...person. Of those:
2 are in New York City (the Conjuring Arts Research Center, which looks awesome, and at the New York Public Library)
4 are in Boston (the Bostonian Society, the State Library of Massachusetts, and two positions at Harvard)
3 are in Chicago (Paper Source, a job as a bookbinder drone, the Chicago Kent Law Library, and at the Newberry.)
2 are in North Carolina (at Duke and at UNC Chapel Hill)
3 are in Connecticut (at Western CSU and two at Yale)
1 is in Upstate New York (Cornell)
and 1 is in Virginia (Old Dominion University)
The remaining 9 jobs are mostly as a special collection drone - low level/entry level positions in rare books library working as an assistant. Of Those:
1 is in Philadelphia (U Penn Philly)
1 is in North Carolina (UNC Chapel Hill)
1 is in Missouri (University of Missouri)
1 is in New York City (Gilder Lehrman, who are partners in one of our Teaching American History grants!)
2 are in Boston (Acme Bookbinding, as a bindery prep drone, and the State Library of Massachusetts)
1 is outside Boston (Brandeis University)
1 is in Florida (FSU)
1 is in Kansas (Kansas City Public Library)
and the last is in San Marino, California (The Huntington)
All in all, I'm most interested in the ones in Chicago, New York and Boston, though one of the ones at UNC Chapel Hill would be good cause it's a year position. I intend to apply to pretty much all of the preservation positions; the extent to which I'm qualified varies greatly; some of them I'm actually over qualified for - they're drone positions for which a college degree isn't necessary and they are willing to train new hires - but most of them I'm under qualified for. And I'm reluctant to go for the big, tenure track type positions when I know that I don't intend to stay.
I'll keep the world updated as I learn more...for now, I'm going to see what I can accomplish today from the list of things I've been putting off doing for more than a month. :)
It's sad to note, by the by, that last night I was instructed in no uncertain terms to roll over and go back to sleep at least three times before getting out of bed. I tried, too, I really did. I woke up a few times, and each time I rolled over and went back to bed with a happy sigh. Finally, I woke up and thought to myself, it must be getting late, what time is it now? So I checked. And it was 8:15. I lay in bed for another half hour, but failed to fall asleep, and so hear I am. I meant to sleep til noon. I really did. :) Sigh. Anyway, to work!
The job hunt begins immediately. I've already got a list of 25 jobs that I thought had potential for me. I will continue to hunt for a job either until I get one I find acceptable or until September 1st. If I haven't found a job by September 1st, I will discontinue job hunting. Why, you ask? Well, I fully intend, next March, to reapply to the North Bennet Street School. If I get in on my second try - a much, much more likely prospect than getting in on my first try, especially if I continue to improve my mad book binding and preservation skillz - I would start school there on September 1st, 2008. Simply put, I think it would be incredibly bad form to take a job that I know I will not be at for longer than a year, and probably pretty hard to find a position in that situation anyway. So if I haven't found a job by then, I will hang out in Bloomington for another year working at the lab as long as I can get away with, maybe taking a class or two (but probably not ;) ) and doing things like going up to Ann Arbor to take book binding workshops there (they have a book binding thing there) and generally taking other workshops and such, also to develop the afore mentioned mad skillz.
The only other condition I can stay in Bloomington is if my boss gets hired and I can manage to get her job. Since she turned down the Smithsonian, there's no knowing when/if she'll be offered another position. She had an interview at Northwestern last week, though, so here's hoping.
Aside from that, the jobs break down pretty simply.
16 of the jobs are working as some sort of preservation...person. Of those:
2 are in New York City (the Conjuring Arts Research Center, which looks awesome, and at the New York Public Library)
4 are in Boston (the Bostonian Society, the State Library of Massachusetts, and two positions at Harvard)
3 are in Chicago (Paper Source, a job as a bookbinder drone, the Chicago Kent Law Library, and at the Newberry.)
2 are in North Carolina (at Duke and at UNC Chapel Hill)
3 are in Connecticut (at Western CSU and two at Yale)
1 is in Upstate New York (Cornell)
and 1 is in Virginia (Old Dominion University)
The remaining 9 jobs are mostly as a special collection drone - low level/entry level positions in rare books library working as an assistant. Of Those:
1 is in Philadelphia (U Penn Philly)
1 is in North Carolina (UNC Chapel Hill)
1 is in Missouri (University of Missouri)
1 is in New York City (Gilder Lehrman, who are partners in one of our Teaching American History grants!)
2 are in Boston (Acme Bookbinding, as a bindery prep drone, and the State Library of Massachusetts)
1 is outside Boston (Brandeis University)
1 is in Florida (FSU)
1 is in Kansas (Kansas City Public Library)
and the last is in San Marino, California (The Huntington)
All in all, I'm most interested in the ones in Chicago, New York and Boston, though one of the ones at UNC Chapel Hill would be good cause it's a year position. I intend to apply to pretty much all of the preservation positions; the extent to which I'm qualified varies greatly; some of them I'm actually over qualified for - they're drone positions for which a college degree isn't necessary and they are willing to train new hires - but most of them I'm under qualified for. And I'm reluctant to go for the big, tenure track type positions when I know that I don't intend to stay.
I'll keep the world updated as I learn more...for now, I'm going to see what I can accomplish today from the list of things I've been putting off doing for more than a month. :)
It's sad to note, by the by, that last night I was instructed in no uncertain terms to roll over and go back to sleep at least three times before getting out of bed. I tried, too, I really did. I woke up a few times, and each time I rolled over and went back to bed with a happy sigh. Finally, I woke up and thought to myself, it must be getting late, what time is it now? So I checked. And it was 8:15. I lay in bed for another half hour, but failed to fall asleep, and so hear I am. I meant to sleep til noon. I really did. :) Sigh. Anyway, to work!
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Date: 2007-04-27 05:01 pm (UTC)Sigh.
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Date: 2007-04-28 02:36 am (UTC)-- Gerardo
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Date: 2007-04-27 09:22 pm (UTC)And I hate being a forced morning person too. I wasn't formerly...but having to get up early for work (or when J went to work) has kind of forced me into it. I have to make myself stay in bed until 9 on weekends.... ;)