12th November 2012, 03:48 PM
P Prentice Wrote:well if you want a comments box or tick boxes for levels of job satisfaction then all to the good but given that most people would like to have a career and the prospect of such a career including reasonable terms and conditions and the ability to support a family etc i think pay is a pretty essential place to start. archaeology need not be the preserve of management apologists, batchelor nerds and the socially challanged
There are just some jobs that provide a living rather than a career...professional sportsperson, pop-singing, door to door salesperson, drug dealing, prostitution, archaeologist are trades that strike me as falling into that category. The nature of archaeology, whereever it is practised in the world, does not suit itself to a 'career' structure. Not to belittle the efforts of anyone campaigning for better conditions within the trade, but its not a career. I think you'd be hard pressed to name many archaeologists who have made a career solely out of archaeology, without reverting to some other living to supplement their earnings i.e teaching, writing, TV presenting, museology, burger-turning, tools and equipment business, web site management.....
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