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[...] The National Museum of American History in Washington D.C. is looking to hire a beer expert to conduct research for a new project called the American Brewing History Initiative.
[...] The museum is searching for someone who can write, and conduct interviews at a scholarly level, and not just have deep love for downing cold ones.
"The job will involve developing a plan and conducting research, doing a lot of writing for various digital and print media, doing a lot of public speaking, collecting of objects and documents, working with staff to develop public programs, and a lot of other museum-related duties," curator Paula Johnson told The Huffington Post .
[...] the three-year position pays $64,650 a year, plus benefits, according to the official job listing (PDF). You have until August 10 to apply.
The museum already has several collections of objects and documents related to brewing and beer consumption dating from the 1870s to the 1960s. Over the next three years, the goal is to explore "how beer and beer history connect to larger themes in American history," the museum says on its website.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 31 2016, @12:59AM
Well? What say you, resident consumer of booze?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday July 31 2016, @02:14AM
I actually have a serious answer to this.
I'll start with a true story, though. One of my good friends is an auto mechanic. He loves to build hot-rods, trick out engines, and troubleshoot tricky problems lesser mechanics can't find. At least he used to.
Then he got a real job fixing vehicles all day, every day. After that he started coming home every day cursing even the most basic maintenance on his wife's car. He refused to do any work on any car, hot-rod or not, for any price even though his work pay was modest. A dude who was born with gasoline running through his veins and a "work hard, play hard" tattoo had relegated his after-hours to laying on the couch playing Candy Crush rather than so much as even look at a wrench. His family's own vehicles eventually fell into disrepair even as he was fixing other vehicles for a living.
Now, the moral of the story - if you do it for a living, it stops being fun and starts being a chore. Ahh, the burden of knowledge and experience. No thanks. I'll enjoy drinking this wine I have here, and in an hour or so I'll be reduced to a dribbling idiot shitposting slurs on SoylentNews and getting kicked out of its IRC...and I wouldn't trade that for the world.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 31 2016, @02:50AM
Same AC as above. You might be a drunk bastard (pot calling the kettle black here), but I'd say you have a much more grounded, realistic view about things than most of the basement-dwellers here. Well, it's more entertaining at least.
Anyways, I have a similar story. I used to write code for fun and really enjoy it. Then I started writing code for a living. Four or five years on, I can't stand to look at code once I finish my mandatory eight hours. I think Mark Twain had a nice quote about this. Something about how a man that is paid to ride a horse thinks it is hard work, but if some city folk pay to come out to ride horses then it's suddenly great fun.
Don't let your tank run dry, Ethanol-fueled. I know mine won't be running out any time soon.
(Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Sunday July 31 2016, @04:53AM
Ethanol-fueled speaks with wisdom.
Cobblers Children Syndrome in the Workplace [psychologytoday.com]