Constant micromanagement from upper management, no support, barely any resources, and no room for growth. - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso Amant

Flexible, friendly, motivated, normal hours

working from home, no overtime

Not much to say here except for the visually stunning campus.

- Be wary of taking a VER position if you are a competent, intelligent college graduate, especially from a rigorous or prestigious academic background. There are essentially zero tasks in this job besides sitting at a desk and pointing out the flow of the map to visitors. You will gain very few skills - perhaps communication skills if you've never worked in a front-facing role. There's not much to learn besides how to use a people counter and maybe serve some drinks during an event. - Amant is billed as an arts campus although it rarely has art - it is more research-based. Therefore, if you are looking for a start in the art world, this is not the place. Most of the art serves to virtue signal to visitors that the organization is doing good in the world (all projects based around identity, race, gender, class, etc.). Amant is a privately funded project by billionaires - there is extreme irony in this after studying the program and visiting the bookstore full of anticapitalist and antipatriarchal books, as the main funder of the organization is a straight white male billionaire investment banker who could care less about art and is in it for the tax breaks that a nonprofit gives. - Even though it is run by billionaires, you will be hired illegally as an independent contractor. ICs are "free from control and direction in performing their job" and "perform services outside the usual course of business for the employer", NEITHER which is true for this job. This means zero employment rights and confusing rules for paying taxes. I tried to work with my team to fight against this during my time there but we lacked the organizational ability to do this at the time. - Bad management. The VER manager is new to the art world and is still learning how to manage folks. Those higher than the VER manager don't care about your growth and will not consider you a part of the team. Part of the team currently consists of multiple VERs who have been there for 15 months and have not been promoted, even when showing full dedication and working every weekend. When you work 4 days a week, you would be forced to find a freelance or night gig in order to live in NYC. This organization projects creative, loving vibes (Amant = love in latin) but really gives off soulless, corporate, fake woke vibes. - All this to say, this may be a lovely part-time job if you are in undergrad, are just getting your start in the art or nonprofit spheres, and lack critical thinking to an extent. If you have a degree, you can do better. If you want to be an art world player, 90% of visitors come for architecture, 9% stumble upon it, and 1% come for the art - therefore, nearly zero opportunity to network and make connections.