22nd September 2005, 01:16 PM
I'm getting a bit worried now... I am an archaeology student now on a placement year, but before this started I only had 2 months excavation experience. By the time this year is up, I hope to have improved that to 6 months, as well as the 9 months I will have working in museums, and various other places. Once I graduate, I will have around 15 months work experience within archaeology as a whole. I want to dig when I have graduated, but from this and some other threads, I'm worried I won't be able to get a job because of the lack of experience I have. What are we lowly students meant to do? I am already working for free on my placement year, so for the last 2 months I have worked 7 days a week, plus up to 16 hours a day if I get evening shifts. I was willing to do this as I know I need the experience but now i think some advice would be greatly welcome, is it really worth doing all this if I'm going to end up working in McDonalds for the rest of my life, because I didnt have enough experience to dig?