4th May 2011, 10:32 PM
diggingthedirt Wrote:Serious point though. Obviously we have the moral high ground when it comes to justifying our existence to bankers or traffic wardens, but is there a hierarchy of honourable jobs, and if so where do we factor?
I don't think anyone can take the moral high ground on these kinds of relatively fatuous debates.
I would like to suggest, however, that the hierarchy of honourable jobs starts and ends with vocational jobs. Everything else is potentially immoral (or do I mean amoral? Hmm...).
What we should be deciding is whether archaeolgy is vocational or not. And I would say it is if only because all the other vocational jobs I can think of have relatively crap wages as they are all under valued and taken for granted by an undeserving public who don't value them whilst they have them and then complain vociferously when they are lost (whislt doing flap all to "save" them).
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, Merlot in one hand, Cigar in the other; body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming "WOO HOO, what a ride!