26th October 2008, 10:22 PM
Maybe we're moving out of the archaeology department here and into career services.
Not enough career services (uni and college)offer widely publicised life skills courses; what a contract should look like, how taxes work and what kind of forms you should expect and when to expect them. There should definitely be modules offered on "life strategies for project-based careers(Besides marry rich}, which is a bad idea just because you're sick of being poor and rootless)."
Somethings seem so obvious in hindsight, like keeping a stable "permanent address" regardless of whether you actually visit very often or not to make dealing with banks, insurance, and disclosure (so you can do all the outreach you used to dream of) so much more straightforward.
All the stuff that it's hard to figure out standing in a field, clutching a mobile phone in one hand and a belatedly forwarded letter from the tax office/bank/student loans leg-breakers in the other. B)
If your college/uni offer these things - GO!
Project-based work is very satisfying, but it comes with its own trials. Above all (quick plug for CPD), one has to remember to expicitly state that it is project based to other fields (as necessity deictates side-steps) and stress what you got out of it ("excellent task prioritisation skills, insert example here"), otherwise it just comes across as fecklessness.
Not enough career services (uni and college)offer widely publicised life skills courses; what a contract should look like, how taxes work and what kind of forms you should expect and when to expect them. There should definitely be modules offered on "life strategies for project-based careers(Besides marry rich}, which is a bad idea just because you're sick of being poor and rootless)."
Somethings seem so obvious in hindsight, like keeping a stable "permanent address" regardless of whether you actually visit very often or not to make dealing with banks, insurance, and disclosure (so you can do all the outreach you used to dream of) so much more straightforward.
All the stuff that it's hard to figure out standing in a field, clutching a mobile phone in one hand and a belatedly forwarded letter from the tax office/bank/student loans leg-breakers in the other. B)
If your college/uni offer these things - GO!
Project-based work is very satisfying, but it comes with its own trials. Above all (quick plug for CPD), one has to remember to expicitly state that it is project based to other fields (as necessity deictates side-steps) and stress what you got out of it ("excellent task prioritisation skills, insert example here"), otherwise it just comes across as fecklessness.