23rd June 2011, 04:07 PM
Comarch Wrote:top heavy managment all trying hard to justify their existance.
Marcus coughs and looks a bit shifty.
Well of course, I'm absolutely essential, but I know exactly what you mean!
Good line about General Grant, Deadly
. As regards universities warning prospective archaeology students about the realities of life as a commercial archaeologist, I don't really think this is their job. As I said above, their role is to educate people, not to ensure they have jobs at the end of the course. Arguably, it's the responsibility of the student to look at the likely job prospects and pay levels in their chosen field before embarking on a course of study, but I know that not many do - I certainly didn't pay much attention to my parents' questions about what I'd do with an archaeology degree. That's not to lessen the sympathy I have for any recent archaeology graduate trying to start out at the moment - when they started their course, 3 years ago (or 4 if in Scotland), the financial climate was hugely different, and employment prospects, while perhaps not great in terms of money, were at least much much better than they are now.
You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum