17th January 2008, 04:14 PM
Personally, I am always an archaeologist. I just am, and have been since my interest in the past first developed when I was a small child. I never really switch off, always looking down holes in the ground, at landscapes and at buildings wherever I go, asking myself "now why is that like that", and "what went on here".
I consider myself extremely lucky to be able to do this as a job, and if I won the lottery would quite happily continue doing it for nothing.
Probably many others feel the same way and this is why we are our own worst enemies when it comes to pay and conditions. Sometimes it gets a bit much and we have a moan, and sometimes even question why we are doing it at all - there's no money, no-one seems to care, and you have to work long long hours and develop chronic alcohol poisoning to get anywhere in the rather unusual world of archaeology.
But by the time you have been doing it professionally for nearly 20 years then you have to acknowledge that you're doomed to carry on.
That's me anyway!
[url]http://paulbelford.blogspot.com/"[/url]
I consider myself extremely lucky to be able to do this as a job, and if I won the lottery would quite happily continue doing it for nothing.
Probably many others feel the same way and this is why we are our own worst enemies when it comes to pay and conditions. Sometimes it gets a bit much and we have a moan, and sometimes even question why we are doing it at all - there's no money, no-one seems to care, and you have to work long long hours and develop chronic alcohol poisoning to get anywhere in the rather unusual world of archaeology.
But by the time you have been doing it professionally for nearly 20 years then you have to acknowledge that you're doomed to carry on.
That's me anyway!
[url]http://paulbelford.blogspot.com/"[/url]