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You need to put your 10,247 Likes here at the top of your resume!

 

Actually I would use that as the clincher at the interview, presenting that impressive number on the back of a napkin, pulling it out of my ridiculously overpriced briefcase and sliding it across the table, with a nod and a wink to the team.

As you have probably surmised by now, I never got very far promotionally in my career.

 

Those are Likes from all across the world thus cementing the "internationally known" requirement.

 

Plus by brother-in-law, who's an Aussie. Can't get much more international than that!

 

I just took a look at the job description. There's a realistic chance that I have this!

You will be educated to degree level - I do have a university degree

with international recognition as a scholar in a relevant field - I showed my coins to some Russian and Chinese friends. They liked them and said I was smart for collecting them.

With previous experience of a senior curatorial or research role in a major museum or cultural institution - I found a whole bunch of hidden Mickeys in Disneyworld once. What's more cultural than that?

you will show excellent understanding of the museum - I can read a map as well as the next guy

be confident in major income generation and liaising with external funders - I'm happy to liaison with them. I'm sure they won't mind liaisoning with me.

You will be familiar with, and, ideally, experienced in, digital research in numismatics. All of my coins were bought online.

Good presentational and interpersonal skills are essential to communicate confidently - I agree.

When working in a in a complex and intellectually rigorous environment you can remain, calm, confident, resilient and resourceful in solving problems and proposing solutions and diplomatic under pressure. OK, I'm not English, but I don't own a gun, so by American standards I'm a pretty calm guy.

 

That's a good wage considering a large chunk of the UK are on £20-30k a year

 

I would say that there's a 99.9999999999% chance that they will snag someone straight out of university or from another museum. These folks are used to living on meager wages.

 

My sister and brother-in-law have a flat in London, near the Heath, so I know about the housing situation in that city.

 

I doubt we will ever hear but it would be interesting to see how many serious applications they receive. The winner may have no coin experience whatsoever but be running a relatively major museum in the UK for whom any BM job would be a 'dream'. How many museums are there worldwide that have a full time curator of coins? How many current employees of the BM would be considered serious contenders? How many jobs posted like this are done so to comply with some law but will be filled with the person who has been groomed for the opening for years?

 

That's irrelevant to what people like the ones who would be considered for positions like this currently make.

 

I am fairly certain that the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is on the same level as the British Museum and at most a dozen or so other museums in the Anglo-American sphere in terms of classical art collections, does not have a full-time curator of coins and medals or even a separate department devoted to them. I vaguely recall that they have at least one small room with a few walls of coins, but I believe that most of the ones they have on display are divided up among the different galleries to which they're related in the general history of art -- Greek coins in the various galleries of ancient Greek art, Roman coins in the various galleries of ancient Roman art, and so on. I also vaguely recall reading that there was a controversial sale by the MMA of thousands of ancient coins back in the 1970s. By contrast, Coins and Medals is one of only eight different substantive departments listed at https://www.britishmuseum.org/our-work/departments. So this is a major position there.

 

Wonderful thread RC! Per ALWAYS

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Obviously, with my credentials, they would be the ones reaching out to me.
I mean, only if they have MSCs, Venus reverses and plenty of RRs for me to play with... that is, evaluate closely and want a candidate thats both perspicacity and utter lack of concisness make me exactly what any Museum needs. A pedantic, Adonis that won't shut up

I'm not "internationally known", but I'm known to rock a microphone

And I did graduate from the school of hard knocks. .


But never thought I'd get to live somewhere with such basic amenities as real health care.
After paying around $7,500 at least, and without surgery for one of my boy's broken legs (and who knows what bill they add in and drop in my mailbox next) and of he'd needed a surgical treatment I'd have been looking at $17,000-$35,000 (there goes what could pay for a signed Eumenes, a couple Aureus with money left over for some top shelf MSC tets).
And if it helps, I have a real pretty smile:

Resume and references upon inquest

Though, I must admit this awesome thread is sorely lacking in one thing:

 

Sorry about your son. I know what you mean about health care expenses. Even though I'm on Medicare, I just finished paying more than $6,000 for the two cataract surgeries, and almost $1,000 to have a cracked and infected molar removed. With more thousands to go to have in implant put in. Just think of all the coins I could have bought with that money. Too bad I need to be able to see to appreciate them. Eating without pain is important too.

 

I’d work that job for free xD

 

It is probably worth pointing out that many of those who work in London, from top professionals to junior clerks, live a long way out outside London, where housing costs are much cheaper. It is simply a question of balancing the cost of an annual season ticket for rail travel against rental or purchase cost of accommodation. The further out, the cheaper the housing but the more expensive the travel cost - and commuter travel in and out of London is he'll on wheels.
When a young couple are starting out, if they are both professionals they will live in the capital. When a family comes along, and they probably have only one (but higher) salary to live one, they move out.

 

I think @dougsmit hit the nail on the head, the BM are simply complying with the law by advertising the post.

How do i know ? been there done that.