2nd July 2014, 12:46 PM
RedEarth Wrote:Exactly, which is the status quo people like Jack want to preserve as it maintains their position as the righteous ones or whatever the fuck they think they are.
Ah, I see the confusion I have created.
I do not at all want to preserve the status quo! I wish we all got paid a wage that was in line with other industries, but we don't.
I was referring to the here and now, the immediacy of running an excavation and saving as much archaeology as possible today. I, like everyone would be better off (financially) working in an IT office, working for a bank, as an engineer, or even driving a bin lorry. But I chose not to.
I just can't understand (in the immediacy) anyone doing archaeology who isn't interested in it. You'd get paid a considerable amount more doing something else that you are just as disinterested in. So why settle for less money?
Nothing I say or do effects what people get paid, other than on an individual basis and within someone else's pay-grade scheme.
I have no such credo to keep others down - what, are we in Stalinist Russia or something?
I would much rather all archaeologists - no matter what level they are at were raised on a public platform and heralded as heros and paid the equivalence of footballer's wages for attempting to save everyone's cultural heritage.
You could equally say its all BAJR's fault as the published minima are so low (though that is NOT my opinion). BAJR's pay grades should start at 30k and go up to 150k for managers.
But yeah keep the abuse coming, I thrive on it :face-stir:
Oh and PP, of course they shouldn't! It's just, at the moment, they seem to be!
Lobby the government, change legislation = a re-evaluation of the cost/worth of archaeology = a change in pay and conditions for archaeologists...........use ecology/climatology as a model
Cultural diversity is just as important as biodiversity for the survival of the human race.