12th March 2012, 10:06 AM
Dirty Boy Wrote:And sadly i'd have more chance of finding the lost treasure of the sierra madre than another driver on site!
Something that's puzzled me for several years is the large number of non-driving archaeologists, which seems to me to represent a higher proportion than you'd find in the general population. I know learning to drive is expensive, and short-term contracts and working away may mean that you're not in any given area long enough to complete a course of lessons and sit a test, but it can potentially make the difference in deciding who gets kept on at the end of a contract - if you've got two people of roughly equal ability, you'll probably hold onto the one who can get him- or herself out to the small-scale one person watching brief, rather than the one who'd need to be driven out there by someone else.
However, that's a different issue from people who can drive, but who refuse to be used as an unpaid taxi service to ferry other people and equipment to and from sites. I've got absolutely no problem with people saying 'no' to this kind of thing, unless the company is prepared to stump up a bit of extra money. After all, not only are they taking on the extra responsibility of having everyone's lives in their hands, they're also effectively working from the moment they start driving, while everyone else is asleep in the back.
You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum