Blog 5. My future job

 

¡Hello everyone!

Today I will tell you about my job expectations.  In the future, I hope to work as a bioarchaeologist in a scientific institution, ideally a museum. In this place, I imagine a laboratory, with technological instruments that will allow me to conduct research. The idea of working in a museum is not only related to being in enclosed spaces, because it also involves traveling and going to archaeological sites to record, excavate and survey them, so you can actually enjoy the outdoors and get to know different places, communities, cultures and realities.

When I finish my studies, I would like to visit different museums in the country and the world, to see how cultural materials are handled and preserved, but mainly human bones and mummies. As for income, the truth is that the salary of a public employee in Chile is adjusted to grades according to service years, but it increases with specialization and the passage of time. Currently, I am studying my second career: archaeology; the first was physical anthropology at the University of Concepción. I want to be able to complement my knowledge through these two professions and thus achieve a greater development in my area, which will allow me to apply both disciplines in practice.