10th June 2011, 11:27 AM
Dinosaur Wrote:Speaking as someone who's dug under the old DoE regime, MSC (happy days, unlimited supply of year-long contracts), PPG16, PPS5 and doubtless will still be doing so under whatever comes next, and have never been short of a job when I've wanted one (past a certain point people phone up to see if you're free to work for them, and a good worker could always find work outside archaeology when there were no decent sites up and running - being able to use a shovel seems to be becoming a strangely rare skill even in the construction industry), no, you're completely and utterly wrong, its the men who seem still to be here having stayed the course, and as Jack has pointed out, cos they want to be :face-stir:
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well whoopy sh*t! so you and a few other men can handle a shovel ..... and stifle the careers of anybody who thinks its about a bit more than handling a shovel