Sorry about the rant affect. I just throw I am self employed at the survey and decided that it had been engineered by sheep. I obviously came at your survey with a biased opinion from my experiences of being a self employed digger on sites which had away teams into my “home” patch.
I would describe the experience as cat amongst the pigeons. On matters of negotiating a rate some of it was about trying to work out what the various assortment of archaeological jetsom were being paid by their often smug inept management so that I could cut some form of “fair” deal. Often along side having to confront the problem of management not knowing how to contract a self employed archaeologist which often involved obscure account department procedures( councils, trusts, universities) not understood or controlled by the so called management-and all of the ifa. There is also problems the field staff trying to work out what you were being paid to add to their list of inadequacies. I would say that that no matter what contract you eventually agreed that if the field staff found out a figure they would immediately take the sum to be a vast fortune compared to what they were being paid when in fact what I was undercutting was the accumulated costs of travel expenses, living expenses, accommodation, pensions (although never really worked out what this totalled over a lifetime) , employer NI contributions, union subs, ifa membership(just kidding,) holiday pay and sick leave (which was often at biblical plague proportions) and if I was making anything it was from nicking permatrace although I would say in my defence that their normal use of thesheets was often criminal.
I think your statement about
which is really my whole issue with most of the archaeological world (including curators). Basically there are a lot of people in archaeology who cant workout how to be an archaeologist. They act exactly like voliiurtetyers and are treated as such by the establishments that have evolved over the years or made it up yesterday.
Now whats all this digadventure all about hay, no doubt boundless enthusiasm for my rates or yours hay or are they looking further back into the crowd. Looking forward to the bonfire in the archive -good for roasting potatoes but will all the newbies know this, doubtful.
I would describe the experience as cat amongst the pigeons. On matters of negotiating a rate some of it was about trying to work out what the various assortment of archaeological jetsom were being paid by their often smug inept management so that I could cut some form of “fair” deal. Often along side having to confront the problem of management not knowing how to contract a self employed archaeologist which often involved obscure account department procedures( councils, trusts, universities) not understood or controlled by the so called management-and all of the ifa. There is also problems the field staff trying to work out what you were being paid to add to their list of inadequacies. I would say that that no matter what contract you eventually agreed that if the field staff found out a figure they would immediately take the sum to be a vast fortune compared to what they were being paid when in fact what I was undercutting was the accumulated costs of travel expenses, living expenses, accommodation, pensions (although never really worked out what this totalled over a lifetime) , employer NI contributions, union subs, ifa membership(just kidding,) holiday pay and sick leave (which was often at biblical plague proportions) and if I was making anything it was from nicking permatrace although I would say in my defence that their normal use of thesheets was often criminal.
I think your statement about
Quote: [SIZE=3]I not going to be[/SIZE]should be extended to
[SIZE=3] encouraging anyone to join it that can't work out how to do it on their own.[/SIZE]
Quote:[SIZE=3]anyone who cant work out how to do it on their own really shouldn’t be encouraged to call themselves an archaeologist[/SIZE]
which is really my whole issue with most of the archaeological world (including curators). Basically there are a lot of people in archaeology who cant workout how to be an archaeologist. They act exactly like voliiurtetyers and are treated as such by the establishments that have evolved over the years or made it up yesterday.
Now whats all this digadventure all about hay, no doubt boundless enthusiasm for my rates or yours hay or are they looking further back into the crowd. Looking forward to the bonfire in the archive -good for roasting potatoes but will all the newbies know this, doubtful.
Reason: your past is my past