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Is that sarcasm Invisible, or am I mistaken. My experience has been that those with enthusiasm and commitment as well as experience and competence tend to get on. The message being stop slagging off the put-upon supervisor/site director/project officer/project manager and they might take you more seriously.
(I never had to sleep with the high-ups either)
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Me either, it is possible to get on with some skill, enthusiasm and commitment. I like the fact that those without any of the three get filtered out pretty quickly. Unfortunately, some of the good ones go eventually as well.
I've been thinking a lot about how to maintain enthusiasm, and found that a trip to TAG did wonders. I was very surprised to find that the detritus of under-used knowledge that I've accumulated over the years made useful contributions to many papers. Much of this was about sites that the academics giving the papers had never heard of. Commercial archaeology is so crap at dissemination of knowledge. Many of my colleagues had the same experience and we came away buzzing with renewed enthusiasm. I've not seen old lags that excited since 500 quid was put behind the bar for an X-mas party!
I'd highly recommend it, and the cost was borne by the unit. I'd love to see a huge contingent of field types this year in Sheffield. We certainly made waves in Glasgow!
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Hey Roywhiting, call me an opportunist if you will...I've got heaps of experience and want some work this summer, want my cv? (hope this isn't a forum faux pas...)
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Quote:quote:Originally posted by Sith
Is that sarcasm Invisible, or am I mistaken.
I prefer to think of it as wry.
. A reflection on the views of contrubutors to the forum on wages, career propsects, accommodation, quality of (some) commercial excavations and general employment practice.
Today, Bradford. Tomorrow, well, Bradford probably.
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Bit of a rant...getting pretty painfully intolerent of hideously under-estimated sites being hacked. I`m lucky enough? to be in regular touch with lots of circuit diggers who all seem to be saying the same thing i.e, that initial estimates are verging on the pathetic and, as always, as time contracts, the earliest and usually sexiest archaeology is where the most ridiculous compromises are made. From my heady days in a consultancy, I seem to remember that deviations from the previously agreed mitigation will only be valid when all participants agree. How is it then that Mr/Mrs MIFA can undertake band-aid archaeology without consulting with the grown ups first?[?]
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I recently did a WB on a site where the contractor was working thirteen hour days, I called the office and was told "we did'nt budget for that and if we have to pay you all those hours it's not worth us doing the job"!
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If planning conditions dictate that an archaeologist has to be present during works then simply, they do 13 hours, so does the archaeologist. If not, theres a bit of a breach (contrived?) methinks. Don`t believe a word of what you`re told- a 13 hour day will be charged at that. Doctor Wardle?[?]
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Yes mate that is what I did, we had to reach a compromise over wages though and i didnt get paid all the premium hours that I should have but I did earn some tidy money that week(for a change)!!
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