25th March 2008, 03:22 PM
Well, this is again wher I differ.
a) I stand outside and watch and dig, I then come back and write and draw.. (check my reports - CHC on OASIS and SCribd) I don't employ people, but do work with people who need exp. or training... not as a form of exploitation, but as a service.. for I could do the job quicker without them, but prefer to teach skills... at no cost.
I enjoy archaeology and education / entertainment is one in the same... Currently ready for a big drive to put archaeology in the classroom, getting kids to use forensic skills, using brains instead of ticking boxes. Also allowing for all the inherit skills of field archaeology as well as those of all the other elements... the photographer, the illustrator, the surveyor, the botanist, the geophysist...etc..etc.... there is more to archaeology that your limited view of person standing in field watching a toilet in a graveyard.
A digger is one of many many specialists involved in the process. and for me, to have fun into the bargain (or at least have the opportunity to every so often have fun!) is a great part of what I and many others do. You don't seem to consider that trusts are only doing it for selfish and money grabbing means... perhaps they are doing it becasue its what we should all like to do, but are so caught up in the developer funded marcket, we don't take time to breathe in and enjoy some good honest archaeology for archaeology's sake, with people who want to do it...
I leave my coiuncil job on Friday.. and have to confess I know nothing about or care about my pension... I worry that you are holding up a mirror to your own desires... I too jsut had a tax bill in... for my commercial work... it hurt... but hey.... we all have to pay it... and I had the money.. becasue I don't undervalue myself... I charge what I feel I am worth... I don't overvalue myself either... after all... its all a gameshow!
"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu
a) I stand outside and watch and dig, I then come back and write and draw.. (check my reports - CHC on OASIS and SCribd) I don't employ people, but do work with people who need exp. or training... not as a form of exploitation, but as a service.. for I could do the job quicker without them, but prefer to teach skills... at no cost.
I enjoy archaeology and education / entertainment is one in the same... Currently ready for a big drive to put archaeology in the classroom, getting kids to use forensic skills, using brains instead of ticking boxes. Also allowing for all the inherit skills of field archaeology as well as those of all the other elements... the photographer, the illustrator, the surveyor, the botanist, the geophysist...etc..etc.... there is more to archaeology that your limited view of person standing in field watching a toilet in a graveyard.
A digger is one of many many specialists involved in the process. and for me, to have fun into the bargain (or at least have the opportunity to every so often have fun!) is a great part of what I and many others do. You don't seem to consider that trusts are only doing it for selfish and money grabbing means... perhaps they are doing it becasue its what we should all like to do, but are so caught up in the developer funded marcket, we don't take time to breathe in and enjoy some good honest archaeology for archaeology's sake, with people who want to do it...
I leave my coiuncil job on Friday.. and have to confess I know nothing about or care about my pension... I worry that you are holding up a mirror to your own desires... I too jsut had a tax bill in... for my commercial work... it hurt... but hey.... we all have to pay it... and I had the money.. becasue I don't undervalue myself... I charge what I feel I am worth... I don't overvalue myself either... after all... its all a gameshow!
"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu