1st November 2011, 09:52 PM
vulpes Wrote:It's true. You have to promise to never again use a trowel if you join the IFA at any corporate grade. That's right isn't it Kevin, Sadie, Chiz, BAJR host et al.
Yep, its true! I can't dig for s***t. I'm absolutely f****ing awful at digging. But thank jebus I never made it to manager eh? Because, you never know, I might actually have been quite good at managing projects and dealing with clients and money and all that stuff despite my absolute inability to dig astratigraphically. I mean, I'm so bloody awful I believe a cut can cut a cut. For real.
And I once met an archaeologist who wasn't in the IfA and who'd been digging for 15 years and and was pretty poor at field archaeology. His context sheets were not a pretty sight. So what did I do? Did I extrapolate from his ability and assume everyone who wasn't in the IfA was a terrible archaeologist and slag them all off. Or did I set aside time to site down with said digger and go through the basics, find out what the issues were, identify the areas in his understanding that needed work, and give him support at a level he was comfortable with so that after a while, with mentoring, he improved markedly. Your guess.
Chiz. MIfA and Digger, not in that order
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