31st May 2013, 01:02 PM
Lesson 2: Professionalism[SIZE=2]
Welcome to the working world. Gone is the comforting bussom of university, gone is the protective embrace of your college, department and tutor.......
The working world is a harsh mistress. She expects much and explains little. Like nature she protects those who protect themselves. The weak and infirm are cut down so the fit can survive.
'For something to live, something else must die.'
- Gavaclese (fist of Aries)
This lesson is so important to the budding commercial archaeologist (The School of Jack prefers the term circuit digger), that it has been split into three sub sections: 1) Attendance; 2) Craftsmanship; 3) Attitude.
The lessons of professionalism don't just apply to the circuit digger, they are important throughout all the stages of an archaeologists career. (See years two and three syllabus).
Though the world of commercial archaeology exists behind a screen that somewhat protects it from the wider working world. The two intersect allowing the harsh realities, unspoken rules of thumb and ruthlessness of the construction industry to bleed through.
Now some of you will be aware of the harshness of the working world through your upbringing, part-time jobs to support your education etc. but it has come to the attention of The School of Jack that an increasingly large number of new diggers are blissfully unaware of these realities and receive a 'cold hard shock' on arrival to site. So read on, and heed the lessons passed on down from the fabled old lags.
'I must be paying some kind of karmic cost for being such a skallywag when I was a kid.'
- Mr Swear
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Welcome to the working world. Gone is the comforting bussom of university, gone is the protective embrace of your college, department and tutor.......
The working world is a harsh mistress. She expects much and explains little. Like nature she protects those who protect themselves. The weak and infirm are cut down so the fit can survive.
'For something to live, something else must die.'
- Gavaclese (fist of Aries)
This lesson is so important to the budding commercial archaeologist (The School of Jack prefers the term circuit digger), that it has been split into three sub sections: 1) Attendance; 2) Craftsmanship; 3) Attitude.
The lessons of professionalism don't just apply to the circuit digger, they are important throughout all the stages of an archaeologists career. (See years two and three syllabus).
Though the world of commercial archaeology exists behind a screen that somewhat protects it from the wider working world. The two intersect allowing the harsh realities, unspoken rules of thumb and ruthlessness of the construction industry to bleed through.
Now some of you will be aware of the harshness of the working world through your upbringing, part-time jobs to support your education etc. but it has come to the attention of The School of Jack that an increasingly large number of new diggers are blissfully unaware of these realities and receive a 'cold hard shock' on arrival to site. So read on, and heed the lessons passed on down from the fabled old lags.
'I must be paying some kind of karmic cost for being such a skallywag when I was a kid.'
- Mr Swear
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