
Dorissa Martinez
Archivist
National Archives and Records Administration
Yorba Linda, CA USA
“It turns out that when you love what you do, the money finds you. ”
National Archives and Records Administration
Yorba Linda, CA USA
“It turns out that when you love what you do, the money finds you. ”
Archivist
I assess, organize, preserve, and make available records of the Nixon Administration (1969-1974).
Typically I spend my day providing reference services for researchers or on a processing project. Reference services can be anywhere from meeting with a new on-site researcher or responding to email requests related to our holdings. If I'm not working on reference requests, I'm reviewing an unprocessed collection and preparing it to be released to the public.
Here's the first step for college students
Interning, which can be hard financially, but it will be so worth it in the end. It's super hard to find a job if you don't have any experience, so even if you have to work 4 weekend jobs just to intern once or twice a week it will be worth it in the long-run.
"It's more important to make a lot of money."