I'm having problems replying to emails i've been sent through BAJR, does anyone know why? Is it common?

As I?m at home nowadays I discovered that I can cook,(nice middle astern food), or so my friends tell me, what about a mobile archaeological soup kitchen?
Think about it? No flasks ?. No cold sandwiches? beautiful archaeologist delivering hot soups. I can even hire a chopper to get to those far away sites and be a true field archaeologist? Look don?t laugh I can distribute sensors to locate you all out there in the fields. What say you?

Hi all,
Sorry I did not say hello when I first came to the site.
I just lost my job?.
Dispirit, frustrated, annoyed and adamant to work in Archaeology?. I studied the damn thing because I love it. I had enough of doing other things.
I live in London if you know any one who wants their garden dug up I?m willing to give a generous discount.

Judy

Dear all,
What is the term DTP mean? Is it Digital Data and the Production of analytical reports? Or some thing all together different [:I]

At the unit I work for I am the only female to be working full-time in the field at the moment, the others are either permanently office based or spend time doing a bit of both. I don't mind and am curious to know if this is the norm? During my undergrad degree there were way, way more girls than guys on my course. Where do all the girls go?
What is the ratio of girls to guys in the trenches in units around the UK?

dinos

ps- it is not my aim to make this a sexist/feminist/equal rights issue. would just like to satisfy my curiousity

Metro newspaper carried a story today...
a magazine carried out a poll to determine the 50n greatest world heritage site worth a visit.Stonehenge came joint last with the soddin London eye.Think it`s high time someone sat Tessa Jowell down and explained a few things to her...like her job for example.....Looks like the IFA pledge to raise the perceived value of archaeology/archaeologists is still-ten years late.Disgusting lack of motivation.....}

Ladles and jellyspoons,
As a suggestion and caveat to our thread on Health and Safety, may I recommend membership of the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management. Seeing as our earlier requests for the new HS handbook (written by the grown ups in our profession) to be placed in site huts around the country fell on deaf ears....join these guys and get educated.If we ALL know the score, it will be all the more difficult for dangerous muppetry to prevail.....

http://www.iirsm.org

Now ive only been "in the game" so to speak for a couple of months, but am i right in thinking that 1. everyone in archaeology knows each other and 2. everyones related. what a crazy scenario!!! if this is the case, then i think that its high time an arch dating service is set up. As ive said ive only been doing this a short while but from the nine people ive met so far four were married! thats nearly 50%!!!!! crazy figures imagine an arch.. blind date cilla would constantly be getting the hat out of the cupboard!
p.s. im 24, single, tall dark and handsome!!
it starts here!!!

I've noticed on other threads that there is a tendency to play up the feeling that is felt necessary have a degree in order to work in archaeology. Many people who started digging in the 1980s came through the MSC scheme and have gone on to become senior figures in many units despite having no formal archaeological qualifications. This thread is not intended to bash people with degrees but is rather slanted towards those MSC old lags who have achieved significant success in archaeology without having a formal archaeological qualification. Some of my MSC trained colleagues are senior POs and PMs. Are there any other MSC old lags out there who can prove to the BAJR membership that the lack of a degree isn't an automatic bar to career success in archaeology? Once again I'll say this isn't degree bashing but rather a chance to prove that you don't need a degree in archaeology in order to succeed. I was once told by a graduate with a 1st class degree that I had no right to be promoted above her because I had no formal qualifications in archaeology, come on folks prove that I was right and that she was wrong, surely talent and ability are worth just as much as paper qualifications?

It's even worse here. At least you have people who know how to dig

Little Tim