22nd June 2010, 12:48 PM
The point I was trying to get over is that there's actually no need for all these degrees and us being taxed to death to pay for people to get them. My social crew include people fairly high up in a wide range of professions (including the 'chief software architect' (whatever that is) in a major software firm, the managing director of an advertising industry multinational, a fairly senior NHS bod, a construction firm gaffer and a university professor (not archaeology), to give you a flavour of the range of interests), and all of them suffer the curse of having to employ know-nothing graduates that they have to totally re-train from scratch, usually for tasks that never needed a graduate in the first place. Most modern 'graduate' jobs have merely been re-graded as such since the market's flooded with graduates......does archaeology really need people with degrees to bale-out flooded trenches and shift soil A to spoil-heap B/ - I think not! People with 3 extra years experience on site would be considerably more useful (frankly for the little benefit I got from Uni I'd have been better off sticking to digging), and would have saved the taxpayer a bundle too :face-stir: