15th January 2009, 09:42 AM
Dirty Dave Lincoln says:
What about individual people who are not IFA members,but their company was RO who have already lost their jobs- or are they just 'collateral damage' to the recession?
Velociraptor replies:
Yeap, at this very second, we are 'collateral damage' - as you put it. In my opinion.
As you know, I was an IFA member for three years but then (quite deliberately) let my
subscription lapse.
When I "started out" on the circuit, I began subscribing to IFA, Council for British Archaeology magazine and "Curent Archaeology" magazine, as I was told by various people, that these things would aid me / be of advantage. I do not now, subscribe to any of them. None of these things (as far as I am aware)have ever brought me a single second of advantage or benefit.
Sadly, though I have a degree, (becuase various units / museums told me, when I was unemployed in the mid 80s, I would have to get one), the only time it ever aided me, was in getting my first few jobs. Most archaeology employers, face-to-face, ask how much site experience you have, what sort of sites you have dug, can you use the computer and do you drive.
Say what is my message to you, Dirty Dave of Lincoln? (wink!)
Let the IFA people talk as much as they want. Maybe they will do good and kindly things. If so good luck to them and all their members. I sincerely mean that.
However, it is totally irrelevant to me or you, what they decide, one way or the other.
No one is going to put us back in work except ourselves (and the "local archaeological social network" we belong to).
This has been the case for us two, since 1985 - remember?
Ahhhhh.........don't we know it!!! ha ha ha.
What about individual people who are not IFA members,but their company was RO who have already lost their jobs- or are they just 'collateral damage' to the recession?
Velociraptor replies:
Yeap, at this very second, we are 'collateral damage' - as you put it. In my opinion.
As you know, I was an IFA member for three years but then (quite deliberately) let my
subscription lapse.
When I "started out" on the circuit, I began subscribing to IFA, Council for British Archaeology magazine and "Curent Archaeology" magazine, as I was told by various people, that these things would aid me / be of advantage. I do not now, subscribe to any of them. None of these things (as far as I am aware)have ever brought me a single second of advantage or benefit.
Sadly, though I have a degree, (becuase various units / museums told me, when I was unemployed in the mid 80s, I would have to get one), the only time it ever aided me, was in getting my first few jobs. Most archaeology employers, face-to-face, ask how much site experience you have, what sort of sites you have dug, can you use the computer and do you drive.
Say what is my message to you, Dirty Dave of Lincoln? (wink!)
Let the IFA people talk as much as they want. Maybe they will do good and kindly things. If so good luck to them and all their members. I sincerely mean that.
However, it is totally irrelevant to me or you, what they decide, one way or the other.
No one is going to put us back in work except ourselves (and the "local archaeological social network" we belong to).
This has been the case for us two, since 1985 - remember?
Ahhhhh.........don't we know it!!! ha ha ha.