5th October 2010, 10:16 PM
Dinosaur Wrote:...what is noticeable is that there is an age-gap opening up. Certainly in Northern England there seems to be a hardcore of diggers in their 40s and 50s, who've been digging for ever and have managed to make the whole digger-lifestyle thing work, and then at the other end there are the 20-somethings fresh out of Uni with rather rose-tinted expectations, most of whom seem to rapidly fall by the wayside....The gap's a bit worrying since the older diggers are, lets face it, getting older.....:0
Completely agree. I find it utterly bizarre that senior unit management types don't seem panicked about this, because in 10 - 20 years there may well be an entire layer of middle management and specialists (field and artefact) missing. I really fear that we could be heading towards a generational skills gap, bad for archaeology and, I would have thought, bad for business.
More on topic; I think someone recommended easyroommate earlier? I used a few years ago and found it brilliant for finding a room for a few months. Not sure how much use it is outside of cities though.