8th July 2011, 10:29 PM
(This post was last modified: 8th July 2011, 10:31 PM by deadlylampshade.)
Letters after your name tell the "punter" you've got a recognisable, benchmarked standard (such as it is).
Learn how to manage people as well as a trowel and things may improve for you.
Display a bt of leadership - am I allowed to use a phrase like that? - gumption, get up and go and yes, enthusiasm.
Be willing to go the extra mile without ALWAYS wingeing that you're not getting paid for it/expences/time in lieu etc.
Be proactive, consider how you'd like things done if you were the PO, be one step ahead.
And don't be defeatist.
...and it might not take you five years to get anywhere...possibly only a year...
...some may choose not to want to be an "in the field" archaeologist but I do begin to wonder at the alleged "hierarchy of needs" in archaeology when an IT/Geek gets paid more and is "valued" more than a good, experienced digger.
And while I am on my soap box - geophiz may be the current be all and end all but what's going to happen when all the satellites start to die (which I think begins in 2015) and none of the "super powers" except China have the money to put any back in the stratosphere (or where ever they sit...)?
How are you with a map and a compass as a basic digging skill ?(And I don't mean a silva compass either!). Re-section anyone?
Learn how to manage people as well as a trowel and things may improve for you.
Display a bt of leadership - am I allowed to use a phrase like that? - gumption, get up and go and yes, enthusiasm.
Be willing to go the extra mile without ALWAYS wingeing that you're not getting paid for it/expences/time in lieu etc.
Be proactive, consider how you'd like things done if you were the PO, be one step ahead.
And don't be defeatist.
...and it might not take you five years to get anywhere...possibly only a year...
...some may choose not to want to be an "in the field" archaeologist but I do begin to wonder at the alleged "hierarchy of needs" in archaeology when an IT/Geek gets paid more and is "valued" more than a good, experienced digger.
And while I am on my soap box - geophiz may be the current be all and end all but what's going to happen when all the satellites start to die (which I think begins in 2015) and none of the "super powers" except China have the money to put any back in the stratosphere (or where ever they sit...)?
How are you with a map and a compass as a basic digging skill ?(And I don't mean a silva compass either!). Re-section anyone?
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!