29th April 2005, 09:10 AM
Not to sure that bashing on about how hard done by Site Assistants are compared to Supervisors/ Projects Officers is particularly useful. I unreservedly agree with troll that field work is a specialism but most supervisors/ PO's also have to work at the 'coal face' given time/ money constraints on most projects. I also agree with Vulpes that to get a project done somebody needs to accept responsability, deal with clients and DC's on site etc. It really should be remembered that without site assistants it is impossible to dig a site, but with nobody looking at the bigger picture it is chaos (I know, early on in my career a supervisor of mine would drop us off on site - bugger off somewhere else for the day then pick us up at the end of the day. Unfortunately this came back to bite me in the bum as I had to work the mess up into some form of report a number of years later!!). In general it dosen't matter if you want to stay a site assistant or climb the heady hights, surely it up to what you feel most comfortable doing? Mind you those project managers........}