27th June 2011, 12:49 PM
Oxbeast Wrote:Presumably you want this warning before you filled in your UCAS form... how would this warning be delivered, and by whom? I think that in the future, prespective students are going to have to do some careers research before they commit to a degree course.
It's questionable how effective any such warning would be. My parents did query my choice of degree when I was filling in my UCCA form, but I didn't pay much attention to their questions about what sort of job I'd be able to get or how much I'd earn, and I suspect most people interested in pursuing a career in archaeology are probably the same.
kevin wooldridge Wrote:What it boils down to is that the original poster didn't choose the wrong degree course, but that they chose the wrong post-degree career!!
It might be fairer to say that the original poster has been unlucky enough to be leaving university at a time when there are very few jobs in commercial archaeology around. When I graduated, I was lucky that there was plenty of work available, so I was able to work constantly on a variety of sites all round the country, but that's unlikely to be possible for those leaving university at the moment.
You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum