21st February 2006, 03:19 PM
Geo - you are spot on - I had to reply - I couldn?t agree more this site is the funniest thing in archaeology. The ranting and ill informed idealistic clap trap about field archaeologists being the only professionals who care and the only ones that work hard blah blah is so funny.
The many hilarious 'all developers are evil? and ?consultants are money grabbing inexperienced kids' type threads must IMO put many people off a career in archaeology ? do not despair newbie?s- stick at it and you can have a career in archaeology if you side step the obvious casualties you will unfortunately meet along the way.
I am not alone in viewing the message board as a fun thing to remind yourself why you stopped digging either - not the poor pay (yes it was bad and much worse than today) or the appalling contracts/conditions in the early 90?s etc - but the amount of arrogant, ill informed, socially challenged insecure types knocking around archaeological units.
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A trowel is a thing to lust for!
The many hilarious 'all developers are evil? and ?consultants are money grabbing inexperienced kids' type threads must IMO put many people off a career in archaeology ? do not despair newbie?s- stick at it and you can have a career in archaeology if you side step the obvious casualties you will unfortunately meet along the way.
I am not alone in viewing the message board as a fun thing to remind yourself why you stopped digging either - not the poor pay (yes it was bad and much worse than today) or the appalling contracts/conditions in the early 90?s etc - but the amount of arrogant, ill informed, socially challenged insecure types knocking around archaeological units.
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A trowel is a thing to lust for!