26/M unemployed musician here. I am currently completing a Masters degree in music and I am currently seeking work so I can move out of my parents' place. I have very recently applied for three positions:
- As assistant library at a local museum.
- Archivist at a theological library.
- Production coordinator for my country's national symphony orchestra.
While I am not qualified in Museum Studies, Library Science or Archival work, these positions seem more bearable to me than working a demeaning job at a call centre. My sister recently insisted that I get one of these jobs in order to move out of my home in order to allow my parents to reduce their work hours from full time to part time (both are seniors). I have a friend (who studied fine arts) who works at my university's Education and Social Science library and she says she prefers it over working in the main General Library due to the smaller scale staffing, leniency, flexibility. She says working in such small scale libraries are ideal work environments, having also previously worked in the university's fine arts library several years ago (prior to its closure). Although with that being said, the university's Education and Social Science library is under a tentative threat of closure, due to austerity measures (following in line with the closure of fine arts, music, dance and architecture libraries from 2018).
I am however curious to read anecdotes from this subreddit regarding such lines of work and whether we can objectively deduce libraries, museums, schools and universities as being more or less exploitative compared to other lines of work.