Is it me? the rise of teh "trainee"

[Marc Berger]

Isn't this thread confusing getting a job with getting a job. On one hand there is being employed by fellow archaeologists and the other is archaeologists getting a contract with a developer. Just where in the trainee, academic politic is the archaeologist/digger saying to the clients this is what it costs for what I do. What's not said in the advert for the trainee is who the client is, who is paying and who owns the archaeology. Automatically anybody applying does not apparantly care and those archaeologists putting the advert out are also saying that it is not important. Why is Everybody after picking their teeth on the qualities of trainees then bemoaning the good digger being a good report writer is how things should work.(and out of interest what is the satisfactory proportion of diggers to report writers that would satisfy a reasonable career progression?)

Look folks they are employing trainees. This is a boom folks, a boom has little to do with individual single build client customers and is all about government inferstructure spending. These clients will be headless, you will find it almost impossible to pin anybody down as to ownership or even who is paying. What will be going on is that "archaeology" will create a dizzying hierarchy of "archaeologists" all commitment in the creation of a pecking order of trainee assistants to somebody who might be called an archaeologist. Now form an orderly queue folks. In the name of growth Roll over.