| Comment | I think the heritage sector had seen a lack of funding for a long time and has been extremely reliant on unpaid volunteers.
Even large corporations like the national trust only hire tour guides as volunteers. And the hours only appeal to the unemployed or retirees. There’s just no care in curating their offering or the experience of staff and visitors- only on the bottom line. And the executive pay packages are disgustingly large.
Don’t even get me started on the financial hurdles blocking the working classes from academia itself. Yeah you can get a basic degree, but to actually advance and join a faculty it is financial torture. And even then the lack of tenure/reliance on phd students is so unfair. There’s no stability in it anymore. |
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