Return to the bad old days.

[Sith]

I suppose that I must have been part of the "sh*t" problem too, as I started as a 13 year old volunteer. In fact thinking about it, that must have been in the good old government funded pre-PPG16 and competitive tendering days.

But seriously, it was only the experience that I got through doing that and other paid work in the years before I got to university that enabled me to embark on a not particularly sparkling but fairly satisfying and successful career in archaeology. Based on most employment practice, the need to keep professionals in work and the attitudes of some in the discipline most keen youngsters are denied the kind of opportunity that I had. I know that they can now access things like the YAC, but it's not the same. by spending time with hardened professionals (and hard drinkers also) in working units I saw what it was really like on site, discovered that I liked the team spirit on site and learned a hell of a lot about digging, recording and interpretation (far more than I learnt at university or possibly after that).

Ahh, I remember the good old days. Did I ever tell you about the time old.....

S