{"id":16352,"date":"2017-01-12T19:40:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T00:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=16352"},"modified":"2017-01-12T19:40:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T00:40:36","slug":"it-isnt-because-a-lot-of-middle-aged-and-older-people-are-entering-the-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2017\/01\/12\/it-isnt-because-a-lot-of-middle-aged-and-older-people-are-entering-the-field\/","title":{"rendered":"It isn\u2019t because a lot of middle aged and older people are entering the field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The January\/February 2017 issue of AARP Bulletin (a publication for people ages 50 and older) contains an article titled, \u201c10 Jobs Retirees Should Check Out\u201d. The jobs described are fairly realistic and include tax return preparer, ride-hailing driver, and dog walker\/pet sitter. A sidebar with the heading \u201cWhere the jobs are. The percentage of positions occupied by workers age 55+ in these growing fields\u201d is quite astonishing. Among the fields listed is \u201cmuseum technicians and conservators\u201d (35%).  While the reason why such a large percentage of the conservation work force is older than 55 may be because conservators love their work and don\u2019t want to retire, or it may be because conservators do not make enough money to retire. But it definitely isn\u2019t because a lot of middle aged and older people are entering the field.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The January\/February 2017 issue of AARP Bulletin (a publication for people ages 50 and older) contains an article titled, \u201c10 Jobs Retirees Should Check Out\u201d. The jobs described are fairly realistic and include tax return preparer, ride-hailing driver, and dog walker\/pet sitter. A sidebar with the heading \u201cWhere the jobs are. The percentage of positions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2017\/01\/12\/it-isnt-because-a-lot-of-middle-aged-and-older-people-are-entering-the-field\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It isn\u2019t because a lot of middle aged and older people are entering the field&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}