10th July 2013, 11:36 AM
"You charged me 1k to dig a hole and find nothing! F$#*^ I could have had my grandkid do that."
"Why am I paying you 30k to play in the dirt? Did you not get enough of that as a kid?"
Any of this sound familiar to anyone here? I am guessing 99.9999% of anyone on BAJR, who has been paid to do archaeology, hears this grumble ALL the time. It may not be how I would spend the money AND I know lots of developers and others who would feel the same way. However, I think we should be glad they got the funding. It comes from the academic centres which means its from a general pool. If archaeologists didn't get the money it would go to interpretative dance (an exaggeration but it is a general pool for multiple disciplines). It is not a zero sum game, were their win means our loss.
I think its best to remember their win is a win for archaeology. I am not going to lie, if I got 1m I probably would not spend too much of it on archaeology}
, as much as I love it.
"Why am I paying you 30k to play in the dirt? Did you not get enough of that as a kid?"
Any of this sound familiar to anyone here? I am guessing 99.9999% of anyone on BAJR, who has been paid to do archaeology, hears this grumble ALL the time. It may not be how I would spend the money AND I know lots of developers and others who would feel the same way. However, I think we should be glad they got the funding. It comes from the academic centres which means its from a general pool. If archaeologists didn't get the money it would go to interpretative dance (an exaggeration but it is a general pool for multiple disciplines). It is not a zero sum game, were their win means our loss.
I think its best to remember their win is a win for archaeology. I am not going to lie, if I got 1m I probably would not spend too much of it on archaeology}
, as much as I love it.