6th June 2013, 07:57 PM
BillyPilgrim Wrote:Archaeology isn't immune from demographics and so I'd suggest that, rather than there being lots of unemployed archaeologists without licences, companies are going to have to (eventually) rethink how they operate to some degree (or pay people with licences a huge wage premium).
And yet I'd suggest that there's never been as many as 35% of diggers as an overall group who could drive, we regularly have to co-opt someone in (like me in the example above) if the normal driver's having a day off in order to cover things because none of them can. Those figures don't allow for jobs where mobility is an essential requirement (bet most plumbers can drive!). In most lines of work it's your responsibility to get yourself to your place of work at the right time. And it continues to be a truism that you're unlikely ever to get promoted to PO if you can't drive so the lessons would comfortably pay for themselves in the long run