20th April 2005, 03:30 PM
Quick answer to the which grade question disheartened.. and yes it is good to do something positive - candle in the dark and all that!
The grade is dependant on the responsibility you are personally capable of or willing to take on for that particular job... so if you are digging a site and you are employed as a Digger...then it is the job you are doing or want to do that you are paid for... being able to draw fab pot illustrations does not matter to the responsibility of the job you are being paid for.
Now if while working as a digger you are also asked to draw the pottery - then you should be receiving more money as you are now being not only a level 3 digger but also an illustrator. Complicated! Not half.... that is why I feel the need to formalise this grading... and that shouuld be done in conjunction with the IFA IMHO... even if just to make sure that we do not end up with two (or three or four) separate graded pay/responsibility levels.
A system of categorising the different job types (done by the IFA already) and then linking each grade to each job type.. so that an illustrator definition could include a range from Grades 2-6 and the define what is expected from each of these levels.
I am starting to confuse myself ... bugger[xx(]
The grade is dependant on the responsibility you are personally capable of or willing to take on for that particular job... so if you are digging a site and you are employed as a Digger...then it is the job you are doing or want to do that you are paid for... being able to draw fab pot illustrations does not matter to the responsibility of the job you are being paid for.
Now if while working as a digger you are also asked to draw the pottery - then you should be receiving more money as you are now being not only a level 3 digger but also an illustrator. Complicated! Not half.... that is why I feel the need to formalise this grading... and that shouuld be done in conjunction with the IFA IMHO... even if just to make sure that we do not end up with two (or three or four) separate graded pay/responsibility levels.
A system of categorising the different job types (done by the IFA already) and then linking each grade to each job type.. so that an illustrator definition could include a range from Grades 2-6 and the define what is expected from each of these levels.
I am starting to confuse myself ... bugger[xx(]