Walker Brown

Over the summer of 2019 my family decided to take our last big family trip together. My cousin who was in Hungary at the time was getting married and so my family decided to in Germany first as a vacation. At the time I was working at a doggy daycare and was I was hating my job, In Germany most of what my family did was go to museums and I realized that I really wanted to do something where I learned something new every day and worked with tangible objects.

Currently my main goal is to get a job in the Information Science profession since I am currently working as a Book Seller and need to get some work experience first. I would love to get a job in archives shortly after graduating but I realize that even an entry level position will take some time to get. If I have the time and money to I would like to volunteer for archives since that will at the very least get me experience. The main thing will be to move either to full time work or find part time work that has better pay while I try to get a job in archives. The end goal is simply to get a job in archives, specifically older history or the internet ,since that is where my interests lie.

As I said before my main educational and professional goal is learning about history and items in collections what I ultimately want out of the profession is to interact with and have to learn about items. The major breaking point for me when working as a Kennel Technician was the feeling of doing nothing I was spending 8 hours a day standing around looking at dogs and all I had to show for it was a paycheck. I want to be doing something that has some tangible results from my work even if that is something as minor as a catalog entry or a preserved item, it is still something that I have done and wouldn't have been done without me. The other thing is work that I actually need to engage with, figuring out the qualities of an item, who the author of the item is, how do we organize the collection.