Well what does one do with an art history degree? Apparantly I volunteer. I have taken on the unpayed, full time job of volunteer coordinator for my local arts festival and I love it! It feel so good to be doing something similar to what I will be doing in my career. I dare you to find an art history professor who hasn't had to do some organizing for events.
I still have not found a full time job. I will start substitute teaching in the next week or so but that is sporadic at best.
I will also be taking the GRE during all of this. The GRE stresses me out more than I want to admit. For some reason this has a very bad effect on studing. I'm so scared of this test that every time I sit down to study I get on the verge of tears and give up. If anyone has any advice please help me!
So this next month should be very interesting stay tuned!
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Thursday, August 20, 2009
A master of Chicago style...
A master of Chicago style, able to discuss art from Paris to Peru, can present a paper perfectly and cram three months of research into two short weeks... I just can't find a job.
I guess I should introduce myself a little bit. I'm 25, married and just graduated from a state University with a BA in art history.
"Why," you ask, "did she get a BA in art history?"
Well I started out as a studio art major, between work and school I never slept, all the money I made went to rent and art supplies. Then one semester I took an art history course, something that is required of all studio art majors. The class was Ancient Art Survey, it covered Western art from pre-history to just before the Renaissance... and it was WONDERFUL! I fell in love immediately, the world of art history had me at 'Lascaux.'
As an fine arts major I partied hard, living in a houses and apartments that were always filled with people. A party every few days, bands played in my backyard and when the fun wasn't at my house I was planing a show for some local venue with a group of friends of mine. Needless to say sometime after my discovery of the wonderful world of art history I was kicked out of school after my third semester.
I sat out for year. In the spring of 2004 I returned to my University with renewed fervour. I changed my major from studio arts to art history and spent many wonderful years swaddled in the warm embrace of academia.
Now in August of 2009 I'm done, a proud graduate in a state where only 25% of its citizens receive a collage degree and I still can't get a job.
I'm sure your thinking "What the hell did you think was going to happen, you got a fucking degree in ART HISTORY?"
Well in my field to do almost anything you have to get at least a masters degree, which I fully intend to get. My dream in life is to get a PhD in art history, specialize in pre-colombian art and teach at a University. What most people don't realize is that getting into a grad school is expensive; $150 to take the GRE and anywhere from $150 to $30 just to apply at a school not to mention study materials for the GRE, travel to entrance interviews and when you finally get in moving expenses. I'm unemployed and have been for nine months (I had to quit work so I could take an outrageous number of hours to graduate by May 2009) my husband works full time but only for $10 an hour. Because of our situation last spring semester when I should have been applying to at least five grad schools (because I flunked out of school my GPA has never recovered, I made good grades after I came back to school but when you start with a 0.something GPA its hard to recover, so when trying to get into a grad school quantity is the key) I only got to apply to one school. We drooped $300 last spring and I didn't get into that school.... *sigh*
So here I am trying to find a job while at the same time trying to get into grad school and I guess that is what I'm going to talk about in this blog. It may be the most boring blog in the universe but oh well.
So if your interested I'll talk about my job search, my upcoming GRE test, the volunteer work I'm doing for our local arts festival, (I'm the volunteer coordinator which looks great on a grad school application I just wish It payed) probably a little about my marriage, pets and some good old fashioned art history.
I guess I should introduce myself a little bit. I'm 25, married and just graduated from a state University with a BA in art history.
"Why," you ask, "did she get a BA in art history?"
Well I started out as a studio art major, between work and school I never slept, all the money I made went to rent and art supplies. Then one semester I took an art history course, something that is required of all studio art majors. The class was Ancient Art Survey, it covered Western art from pre-history to just before the Renaissance... and it was WONDERFUL! I fell in love immediately, the world of art history had me at 'Lascaux.'
As an fine arts major I partied hard, living in a houses and apartments that were always filled with people. A party every few days, bands played in my backyard and when the fun wasn't at my house I was planing a show for some local venue with a group of friends of mine. Needless to say sometime after my discovery of the wonderful world of art history I was kicked out of school after my third semester.
I sat out for year. In the spring of 2004 I returned to my University with renewed fervour. I changed my major from studio arts to art history and spent many wonderful years swaddled in the warm embrace of academia.
Now in August of 2009 I'm done, a proud graduate in a state where only 25% of its citizens receive a collage degree and I still can't get a job.
I'm sure your thinking "What the hell did you think was going to happen, you got a fucking degree in ART HISTORY?"
Well in my field to do almost anything you have to get at least a masters degree, which I fully intend to get. My dream in life is to get a PhD in art history, specialize in pre-colombian art and teach at a University. What most people don't realize is that getting into a grad school is expensive; $150 to take the GRE and anywhere from $150 to $30 just to apply at a school not to mention study materials for the GRE, travel to entrance interviews and when you finally get in moving expenses. I'm unemployed and have been for nine months (I had to quit work so I could take an outrageous number of hours to graduate by May 2009) my husband works full time but only for $10 an hour. Because of our situation last spring semester when I should have been applying to at least five grad schools (because I flunked out of school my GPA has never recovered, I made good grades after I came back to school but when you start with a 0.something GPA its hard to recover, so when trying to get into a grad school quantity is the key) I only got to apply to one school. We drooped $300 last spring and I didn't get into that school.... *sigh*
So here I am trying to find a job while at the same time trying to get into grad school and I guess that is what I'm going to talk about in this blog. It may be the most boring blog in the universe but oh well.
So if your interested I'll talk about my job search, my upcoming GRE test, the volunteer work I'm doing for our local arts festival, (I'm the volunteer coordinator which looks great on a grad school application I just wish It payed) probably a little about my marriage, pets and some good old fashioned art history.
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