‘I took three buses to volunteer!’ is the true story of how during one volunteer placement I had to take three buses to arrive at my work place in time.This blog post concentrates on the need for perseverance, persistence and sheer old-fashioned hard work if you want to weather the storm of the precarious nature of museum work. Short contracts, low pay, little or no job security and the coveted ‘permanent job’ that might not be yours for many years to come if you don’t work hard and push yourself in the busy world that is a career in history and heritage.
Scrolling through my Instagram Stories feed and I’m seeing more and more of the Instagram users I follow discuss fast fashion and remedies to combat the growth of this industry through recycling, re-using, and re-making. These methods are sometimes presented as a new way of tackling consumption in fashion and are effectively, the new ‘Make Do and Mend’ of the twenty-first century. However, these methods are not new or novel and I will discuss in this blog post ‘Make Do and Mend’ is the ‘original’ ‘Anti-Fast Fashion Movement.’
