11th April 2010, 12:37 PM
Unitof1 - could probably give you a run for your money, although a lot of my backlog seems to be other people's old jobs (they've left and things were left hanging, the developer never came up with any money, development got mothballed etc etc etc) - all of the projects I'm working on actively at the moment come under those headings, will make a nice change to go dig a shiny new hole....
Alisdair - specialists fannying-about just results in grief from the client/curator etc, plus of course eventually the client gets bored with the idea of paying for it. Unfortunately once the PX assessment phase has produced some sort of report all sense of urgency seems to go out of the system, in my experience usually the only real impetus comes from the contractor wanting to get rid of the archive to free some space up - my backlog including finds etc must be taking up several tens of cubic metres of valuable office space, it's a triumph on the rare occasions when any significant lump of it goes away!
BAJR - wanna swap jobs? (except the upland survey bit, prefer making big holes)
- are beards and flares out of fashion? :face-crying:
Alisdair - specialists fannying-about just results in grief from the client/curator etc, plus of course eventually the client gets bored with the idea of paying for it. Unfortunately once the PX assessment phase has produced some sort of report all sense of urgency seems to go out of the system, in my experience usually the only real impetus comes from the contractor wanting to get rid of the archive to free some space up - my backlog including finds etc must be taking up several tens of cubic metres of valuable office space, it's a triumph on the rare occasions when any significant lump of it goes away!
BAJR - wanna swap jobs? (except the upland survey bit, prefer making big holes)
- are beards and flares out of fashion? :face-crying: