3rd May 2012, 08:30 PM
"The issue of apprenticeships and internships and their impact on early career archaeologists is less relevant"
I would have to disagree here - HER experience is something that is frequently asked for in job adverts and now tasks that would have been at an entry level in this area have been removed. Technically any job in archaeology could be done by volunteers if they were trained so are we now to simply accept that from now on Trusts are going to move more and more into only working with volunteers.
It is not an issue specific to this post, or indeed this profession but the slow attrition of jobs and the downgrading of pay, longer working hours being told to be grateful for everything we have is really toxic long term. I completely see your point about working with the situation as it exists and taking bits and pieces from here and there to provide whatever you can.
(and when i said being a trust or not wasnt relevant I meant regarding the VAT bill that GGAT appears not to have paid as the issue that Unit is repeating)
I would have to disagree here - HER experience is something that is frequently asked for in job adverts and now tasks that would have been at an entry level in this area have been removed. Technically any job in archaeology could be done by volunteers if they were trained so are we now to simply accept that from now on Trusts are going to move more and more into only working with volunteers.
It is not an issue specific to this post, or indeed this profession but the slow attrition of jobs and the downgrading of pay, longer working hours being told to be grateful for everything we have is really toxic long term. I completely see your point about working with the situation as it exists and taking bits and pieces from here and there to provide whatever you can.
(and when i said being a trust or not wasnt relevant I meant regarding the VAT bill that GGAT appears not to have paid as the issue that Unit is repeating)