17th November 2013, 06:27 PM
(This post was last modified: 17th November 2013, 06:37 PM by Wax.)
lots of things to respond to
So what happens to each new year's crop of archaeology graduates when in the whole field of archaeology across the country there are only 5,000 jobs and that is not new jobs but existing posts bearing in mind a good proportion of these are not in field archaeology? I know far more archaeology graduates who never made it into the profession than I know practising archaeologists. And if the average age of archaeologists is 42 then where are the places for the newbies?
I will say it again, anyone who is ambitious for a good salary and steady job is going to avoid archaeology like the plague.
That is not to say we should'nt do anything about it and for once I agree with PP we need to sell ourselves better.(I do my bit for this mostly in my own time)
And Mr T would find life as an archaeologist much easier with a well paid Mrs T but the months away from home might scupper that in the long run
So what happens to each new year's crop of archaeology graduates when in the whole field of archaeology across the country there are only 5,000 jobs and that is not new jobs but existing posts bearing in mind a good proportion of these are not in field archaeology? I know far more archaeology graduates who never made it into the profession than I know practising archaeologists. And if the average age of archaeologists is 42 then where are the places for the newbies?
I will say it again, anyone who is ambitious for a good salary and steady job is going to avoid archaeology like the plague.
That is not to say we should'nt do anything about it and for once I agree with PP we need to sell ourselves better.(I do my bit for this mostly in my own time)
And Mr T would find life as an archaeologist much easier with a well paid Mrs T but the months away from home might scupper that in the long run