12th November 2013, 01:28 PM
Most of the diggers I've known, even in the commercial world, never rose above digger and now work in McDonalds or a bank, or in a few extreme cases have happily spent decades staying as a digger (actually after a morning re-formatting specialist reports I envy them). And given the shrinkage in workforce since the 'crash', I doubt many of the shrinkees have progressed much in their archaeological careers? There were lots of complaints on here that down-sizing at most units consisted of kicking out the young-uns