11th November 2009, 02:41 AM
Gnome King Wrote:i enjoyed it when there was mutal respect, a shared sense of purpose, people working together using thier different abilities and experience, real team work, shallow pay scales...those golden moments still seem to make the rest worthwhile.
strangely the quality of the archaeology seems in retrospect somehow irrelevant, in that the least enjoyable times were when the archaeology was good, but some or all of the above elements were defective.
Ah, Gnome King, I remember those days, sadly long gone. When you could actually go home at night and know that you'd done your job properly. Unfortunately that is not what happens now. Deadlines need to be met, clients need to be satisfied and we have to prostitute our professional ideals because of the system we work within. I don't know whether you're a field worker or not but the main raison d'etre for our existance is to provide the lard arsed office workers with employment per annum. Post-ex is king.