That leaves a nice niche of the market for you to corner. Start exporting Amish folks.
So like you're the pepper of the earth?

no one is exploiting them. :P Cost them pennies to make that stuff and they sell it for a fortune. :P Add to that, no electric bills, phone bills, gas bills.....okay no bills, and they are doing just fine.

Export. Export them. Spread the carpentry love around the world and make money at the same time. :P

Artifacts, research, frustration, underpaid.

archeolgy intern?

Museum drone. "Collections and Exhibition Specialist". That's how you have a curator on staff without paying curator money.

Call me a huge dork, and of course never having experienced what you do I am totally unqualified to really comment, but a museum is a place I wouldn't mind being underpaid to work at.

Again, if I am way out of line for thinking that then I apologize.

Actually this doesn't come as a surprise. They actually have to know their craft and don't have machines doing it for them. And they are not profit oriented, so they build stuff that lasts, and isn't broken after a year so you have get a new one.

We have some really great carpenters here in Germany too, who are exceptional craftsmen and also build things that are made for lasting generations. But they ask a hefty price...

As one in that industry, yes, the Amish use automated machinery, electricity, computers, etc., etc., etc. The big difference I've found? They use better raw materials. You don't see Amish particleboard furniture - they use hardwoods. That's about it. Oh, and they sell the name.

The dopey 19-year old kid running the machine at a place in Arkansas is the same as the dopey kid running the same machine doing the same stuff in northern Indiana. Difference between them is that the dopey kid in northern Indiana wears suspenders and doesn't have a zipper on his pants. When he takes his lunch break he whips out his cell phone and stares at the screen for 30 minutes just like everyone else at lunch break.

I guess what I'm saying is that there is Amish-made furniture, and there is "Amish-made" furniture.

I fix broken shit.

Underpaid, Non-Appreciated, Computer, Technician.


(At the time I have no choice but that will change soon )

proctologist?

Overall, working in the museum field is great. But it's been a rough year (always too much put on my plate and no downtime), I'm becoming disaffected with the institution (a local historical society which constantly resists doing things right due to inertia), and I'm looking to move on but nothing's panned out yet.

Here today, gone tomorrow


I'm a freelancer so my weekly hours are never promised

The usual fate of a game bought from G2A