24th January 2011, 12:39 PM
In fairness, a university prospectus is a sales document. I wouldn't go taking anything on those as gospel - they're trying to get bums on seats and are hardly likely to tell any prospective customer the ghastly truth about the outcome of any of their courses. I bet plenty of people do an Accountancy degree expecting financial comfort and job security, then find that their lives are actually a tedious grey drudge of soul-corroding number crunching and commuting that make the wages irrelevant.
Also, I'm not sure that the employment of fresh graduates is quite the same situation as seasoned archaeologists looking for work outside an area that they've been working in for a while. Graduates with limited work experience in any field, probably find themselves less stereotyped than those of us with ...erm... more life experience (I'm not "old" - I'm "value-added").
Also, I'm not sure that the employment of fresh graduates is quite the same situation as seasoned archaeologists looking for work outside an area that they've been working in for a while. Graduates with limited work experience in any field, probably find themselves less stereotyped than those of us with ...erm... more life experience (I'm not "old" - I'm "value-added").