24th March 2011, 01:04 PM
Oxbeast Wrote:Sorry, I can see how that came across wrong.pdurdin Wrote:Regardless of what all the old-timers think, I'm going to pursue archaeology as a career, and if they're not going to be helpful or encouraging then it's hard to see why I should pay any attention to them.Therefore you only hear what you want to hear. Why should you pay attention to anyone's experiences if that is the case?
People can share their experience -- even bad experiences -- and still manage to be helpful, encouraging, or even just informative. But that is not, for the most part, what I've seen on this forum.
Very much a case of sorting the wheat from the chaff, as BAJR said.