20th April 2010, 02:15 PM
Am afraid the way you make loads of dosh as a digger (short of going off to Saudi or somewhere) is by by chasing the jobs with loads of hours, get the job done, move onto next with loads of hours. Limiting working hours just strings the jobs out and cuts the overall weekly pay (plus some other b***** gets the work on the next one while you're still tied-up on the first....). No wonder most construction guys think archaeologists are a bunch of muppets. Keeps more diggers employed all right, but none earning a decent wage. Wouldn't it be better to have less diggers but earning proper money?