16th February 2014, 09:35 AM
archaeologyexile Wrote:Tool, you are of course in charge of your own career, but you should be aspiring to write up, ask to help, set up your own private research projects, get research finding, do it in weekends and your holiday......it's very hard work but your own on site work will improve when you see the other side and your career will progress when you improve your cv!
I'm not sure if I totally agree, but I think I understand what you're getting at. It's still early in my career though. I came straight into commercial archaeology from construction, so I had already seen my position as a grunt rather than anything more involved. Having said that, my employers are very good at encouraging us upwards (within the constraints of operating in the resource-limmited commercial world, obviously). But thank you for the advice and I will consider what you say. There are possibilities along the lines you suggest in the pipeline, and I do already have a couple of simple test-pit reports with my name on them from a community project I was involved in. Having said all that, the priority at the moment is to continue learning and getting experience in what I see as the basics. Mainly so I can get promoted from trainee - the money is shite at this level!
