8th August 2013, 01:15 PM
If you want to be afield archaeologist, getting your foot in the door in the first place (and keeping it there!) is the first pre-requisite. Most old fashioned supervisors or the new-fangled POs got there by doing lots of digging and eventually getting promoted, nothing to do with qualis or anything. Assuming Tool does ok on site and keeps getting more work he'll doubtless stand as much chance of promotion as the guy with the PhD pushing his barrow for him. Although it does worry me how little experience seems to be required for supervisorial jobs with some units these days... :0