I am fascinated by this article from The Guardian entitled “What else can a county council museums officer do?”

Based upon Mark, 35 who earns a shade under £26k and therefore the most generic of museum officers working in county council museums, they come up with 5 options that I will sum up.

1. Get a better job in the council.

2. Get a similar paid job in a bigger museum.

3. Get a better paid job in a sizable organisation that seems to ask a lot more for just £3k extra.

4. Get a much better paid job in the House of Commons, ignoring that someone may already have this job and might not want to be giving it up anytime soon.

5. Get a better job in the council.

Out of all the local authority and county council museums I have ever been to, I have yet to meet a single museum worker who didn’t have an already varied background or didn’t have any idea about what to do next. I just don’t understand what this article is trying to say. Is there going to be a mass exodus of county council museum staff? Are museum staff so clueless that they can’t work out that the two options of “Get a better museum job” or “Get a better job in the culture industry” (ignoring the lack of any serious movement of staff turnover in these fields and the fact that these are hardly readily available jobs)

So I put forward a sixth (or third) option. Quit, become a consultant. Exploit every contact you have to make pitches for any work you can do and show off every inch of your experience and reputation. He could earn £0-£100k!