Serious Business

Well, I've survived the first complete week of work and classes. It looks like the classes will be pretty interesting for the most part. Digital Preservation makes my eye twitch, mostly because I do not understand how people deal with all of that data without quitting their jobs. Seriously, all that metadata, plus the actual documents, plus the maintenance required to make sure the documents will actually open a few months, a year, five years, twenty years from now. Crazy. I guess I will find out how they deal because I will at some point have to do these things in my career.

I will have to start the job search. I've done a little bit of searching but I think this weekend there will be serious business action!job searching. I wanted to apply to some internships but I either didn't have enough experience or I would still be in school. The NASA one looked amazing but sadly it starts in June and I don't finish my program until the end of July/early August. The Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame Archivist position has been open for awhile, like a year and a half. That is my dream job. Right there. I don't know why they haven't filled it. We talked about it at work today. I really want to do music archiving. That would be my super duper dream job of amazing.

I'm hoping to gain some archival experience through some volunteer activity this semester. Some people are doing field placements at the Preservation Lab. It's my favorite job so far. That's part of the reason I decided to do some volunteering work instead of field placement, because I wanted to be able to keep my preservation job. Sometimes I wonder if it was the best choice but I like it too much.

Anyway, that's enough rambling for now. I must go watch some Six Feet Under.