27th April 2010, 12:48 PM
One of the joys of the continuing job-diversification in field archaeology is that it's removed much of the requirement for skills diversification - if I want something surveyed I get a surveyor, saves having to learn what all the buttons do (what happened to proper brass-and-glass survey gear, had that figured...). The only formal training I've had on computers involved a pencil and some little ovals on a bit of card, since the punching machine and the actual electronic bits were in another building (which was in another town). No one seems to do actual useful CPD like getting people plant-tickets (which would also count as a transferrable skill when archaeology goes titsup)