I borrowed this from Erin at Down the Rabbit Hole. I know, I know, first post in months and it's a quiz. Oops?
1. What do you do for a living?
I’m an "archive assistant" at a DC museum, processing a large new collection. There's a lot of stuff in boxes, which I'm unpacking, cataloging, photographing, labeling, and sorting. If I were a superhero, I'd be CataloGirl: by day, I'm a mild-mannered contract employee, but by night, I fight for truth, justice, and item-level location tracking!
2. What’s your favorite thing about your job?
I love my co-workers, I love the actual building in which I work (art storage warehouse), and I love the behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of a museum.
3. What’s your least favorite thing about your job?
The tedium. Look, I have the right personality for this job--if I weren't doing this, I'd be a librarian*--but cataloging is not a barrel of non-stop thrills. The collection I'm working on is very quirky, and that helps, but some days are a drag.
4. If you weren’t a ____________, what would you be?
Easy. I wrote a blog post about this once. My number one answer, realistically, is probably a copy editor. Sweet fancy Moses, that makes me boring. But I would be really, really good at it! That makes it less boring, right?
5. What is something that you would love to get paid for that you think no one would ever pay you for?
Reading? Writing? Crocheting? Sitting on my patio drinking coffee? Taking gratuitous naps? So many possibilities, so few willing sponsors...
6. If you could have any job for exactly one day, what would it be?
Professional driver on closed course. No question! I could drive really fast in fancy cars on windy mountain roads and it would all be totally legal and sanctioned and also badass. (I would say astronaut but only if I were in space, but realistically, I know I'd be puking my guts out the entire time, and the stars would be wasted on me.)
7. If you had to do manual labor, what would you do?
If we're willing to qualify "art handler" as manual labor, than that, in a heartbeat. Heck, I'd do that even if I didn't "have to." Wrangling art, loading trucks, playing with crates? Rigging? Sign me up! But first I'd need to get more piercings and tattoos; I am way too clean-cut for that job right now.
8. What is something you were forced to learn in high school that was supposed to be super important, but you never actually use?
Oh goodness, almost all of it. Especially the math. And although this was in college and not high school: LATIN. Oh, Latin. Everyone was all "Oh, Latin! Latin's so helpful! You'll love Latin! Latin is the greatest!" I got a 750** on the language portion of my SATs without having taken Latin, guys, and it hasn't done much for me since then, except to use up way too many of my precious college electives. I do not love Latin. Latin is not the greatest.
9. Who was your favorite boss? Why?
Actually, I've been pretty lucky with bosses so far. My boss from the catering company did the flowers for our wedding. My first boss at the museum (when I was an intern/volunteer) introduced me to beer and taught me to harness my Jedi powers. My current boss is pretty cool, too. But my favorite so far might be my first boss: Becky at the catering company. I never would have stayed there that long if not for her. She rocks.
10. Where would you rather work: Dunder Mifflin Paper Company (The Office), Wernham Hogg Paper Company (The Office, UK), or Initech (Office Space)?
I'm keeping Erin's answer here: If I work at Initech do I get to dispose of my old office equipment myself?
*Actually, I pretty much AM a librarian, except with art and archival material instead of books.
**This was back when there were only two sections, each graded out of 800. Because I'm old.
Singing along to: The Imagined Village, Space Girl
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