17th November 2013, 12:07 PM
kevin wooldridge Wrote:How then do you explain the c5000 people who do make try to make a living from archaeology in the UK?Define "a living" most of my peers, the ones I went to school with and grew up with are all earning well over £30,000. Few archaeologists have any hope of earning at that level. The route for survivale is to hook up with a partner who will have steady job and good income, something that allows a good many archaeologists to continue in the job. Many do not have permenant contracts and even more leave the profession.
People enter this profession for the love of it however that love will be out weighed by more practical demands. A few and it is a few, do make it to a level where some job security and a reasonable wage make it tenable. If you have ambitions towards job security and a good living then you will not enter this profession.