20th February 2009, 06:39 PM
I'm sorry to disagree with Paul Everill on this, but if you take a look over the figure coming from the IfA. You will find that they do represent and equate the 1 in 5 job losses to include academia, the museums, and the curatorial sectors.
Although the differential levels of layoff, will indeed be predominantly be borne by the private sector, you have to be realise that this is as a economic response from a corporate field finance system.
This is the business. Affecting the data coming in and that is not the be all and end all of things.
We are cheap.
Very cheap in fact. But the real issue with what was said, should not be about the expense that we incure upon the client, or our representation within the economic data, but rather, that we 'are creating our nation's story'.
Sorry to say this but, if we have vocally and media-respeceted individuals telling joe public that we are 'creating', people will start thinking we are a pointless exercise. And that we dont have a reason to be here, doing this at all.
On the other hand, we have been creating a database of archives that represent economic boom mindset interpretations.
There is so much more to this that we haven't even imagined yet.
I think we should stop thinking about the finance of the current situation, as being our future.
We do need to be imaginitive and inspiring, but we cannot get drawn down a track where our heritage input into the wider culture, is forgotten to a credit crunch orientated, finance culture menatlity.
be positive
As for fanatical:
Well I wouldn't like to open up on that issue, as we just have to think beyond the current horizons of archaeology.
Again what is important is 'being positive' and 'thinking about what is important', from this current situation.
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Mike