24th August 2010, 01:30 PM
i'm sorry if you feel that i am personally dissing any of you. i'm sure that curators and the like are very overwhelmed but... the thread is from a diggers perspecive. after working throughout the country and for many units big and small as a digger for many years i can assure you that the world takes on a very differnt hue. as a specialist who comes at the end of the process of report writing and therfore toward the end of the recording process i get to see just how well information has been gathered and processed. it saddens me to see that fag packet archaeology still exists and it does exist believe me. what i am still trying to say is that in a world of financial deadlines and stiff competition for jobs some people on all levels find it quite easy to let others do the work that they should themselves be doing and taking the credit to boot. we need a body to make sure that we all pull our weight and that our jobs are taken seriously.that won't happen until we can accept that things need to change. seems pretty obvious to me. oh and if you feel like a small cog try being freelance...