Job or Vocation?

[BAJR Host]

Archaeology....... Job or Vocation?



Another day another WSI?

[Pete M]

Put another way.. beautiful mistress or robber's dog?

[mercenary]

I like to think of it as a calling.

[deepdigger]

Robbers dog I'm afraid, not the kind of thing you'd really like to get involved with if you sat down and thought about it but, after a few pints......!!

deep

[eggbasket]

It's a job. I enjoy it but it is still a job.

Eggy by name, eggy by nature

[Curator Kid]

More of a habit? It's very difficult to give up.

[Oxbeast]

As soon as you call it a vocation, people will expect you to work for free. I agree though, it si very hard to give up.

[cooky]

Its a job like any other - if you work at it you will get somewhere - just dont compare it to other professions - its too depressing, compare yourself to other archaeologists

but it is getting better

(cooky sits under table awaiting wash of moans from the irate diggers)

[deepdigger]

It can't be considered a job eggy, you can earn a decent living doing a job!!

deep

[vulpes]

Do you mean it in the Roman Catholic sense of a calling from God? I knew there must be some higher reason as to why I have put up with this foolishness for so long! Maybe I should reassess my irreligiousness...