Museum Wannabe: One Year On
Blimey, it’s been a while since I published a blog. So let’s talk about that. In May 2021, I logged into Twitter for the first time as the Museum Wannabe. The thoughts and feelings behind my first post had long been brewing, and as I sent off my application for what would become the first of three jobs I held that year, I also bit the bullet and said a big hello to Museum Twitter. I wasn’t a stranger to online networking and spent a good deal of 2020 attending conferences and contributing to niche networking groups. Before the pandemic, I’d participated in the odd bit of Twitter discourse, but I never really strived to make connections or exclusively present myself as a ‘museum person’ online. Then, fuelled by pandemic boredom and a post-graduation job hunt, I began to make a conscious effort to network in the hopes of finding application advice and like-minded 20-somethings starting out in the sector. However, I often felt like a cuckoo in a nest of experienced mus...