5th July 2005, 05:40 PM
Thinking about this, its all a bit depressing. I had been planning to move into DC/council type of stuff soonish rather than knacker my knees climbing the greasy ladder. If Councils prefer to recruit fresh malleable types from uiversities, than I may already be overqualified. None of the recent job applications seem to specify that you must be a field archaeologist. They ask for things like 'an interest in all periods of British archaeology'. Reading between the lines of what curator types say on the forum, it seems that its a nearly impossible job to do as you may well get shafted by your own side.