23rd October 2005, 09:54 PM
first off, hello and welcome, and we will try to be nice, I promise!
sadly, I think you are right, and the same thing was very evident when I was doing my degree, with a lot of people openly admitting that they had no intention of staying in the profession once they had got their degrees. Frustratingly, I was out of a job for rather a long time shortly after my degree because my local unit decided to keep one of these people on instead of me, knowing full well that they didn't want to do archaeology as their job (being blonde and flirting can get you a long way, I will say no more).
However, I don't know whether this situation is any more common for archaeology than for a lot of other degree subjects that are somehow seen as being a doss, and possibly, if the general standard of training did improve, maybe some of these "dossers" might be inspired. Doubtful, but anything is possible
++ i spend my days rummaging around in dead people ++
sadly, I think you are right, and the same thing was very evident when I was doing my degree, with a lot of people openly admitting that they had no intention of staying in the profession once they had got their degrees. Frustratingly, I was out of a job for rather a long time shortly after my degree because my local unit decided to keep one of these people on instead of me, knowing full well that they didn't want to do archaeology as their job (being blonde and flirting can get you a long way, I will say no more).
However, I don't know whether this situation is any more common for archaeology than for a lot of other degree subjects that are somehow seen as being a doss, and possibly, if the general standard of training did improve, maybe some of these "dossers" might be inspired. Doubtful, but anything is possible
++ i spend my days rummaging around in dead people ++