Well, funny you should ask. After another month and a half of fruitless museum-job applications which were uniformly ignored save one that told her she was rejected (from an entry-level, literally giving out the leaflets in the lobby kind of job), she started applying to journalism writing and editing jobs once more, i.e. the field she was trying to leave. Almost immediately she got interviews with three European-based publications that are setting up shop in the US market. One of them made her an offer for an entertainment-news writer position with a decent-enough salary for NYC. Needless to say, she accepted. My sister swears that her Master’s Degree school (Johns Hopkins) may have caught their eye even if the degree was not in journalism, but who knows? I’m just glad she found something that she feels good doing, and maybe she’ll leverage that work towards a job with a museum publication later on down the line. Still considering volunteering but the heat is off now.
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