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Overnight Security Job at the Met Museum
from Find Your God (with Dan St. Germain) · #25
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4 minRay describes his overnight security gig at the Metropolitan Museum, including coworkers going stir-crazy, a fake math genius, a man named Snowplow yelling at imaginary stockbrokers, and stolen African art.
- 44:27Tim worked an overnight security shift at the Met Museum with a 90-year-old woman who used to work for a corrupt congressman and cleaned bodies.
- 44:48The Met hired him for security but later told him he needed a four-year college degree, which he didn't pursue.
- 45:14Working the graveyard shift seemed like a shitty nothing job that paid poorly.
- 45:28The first six months were actually great because you get solitude to work on your own projects, but then the lack of sunlight makes you go crazy.
- 45:41One of Tim's friends who worked nights started wearing one glove and got weird from not talking to people.
- 46:30He realized he should have just lied on his resume instead of being honest about his college credits.
- 46:52Museums feel spooky and scary to Tim because there are rooms full of art stolen from colonized countries.
- 47:15There was a guy at the Met who everyone thought was a math genius because he'd write formulas during lunch breaks.
the MetAfrican art repatriation