Have you seen this?

[judy]

Hi all,
What do you say about the article below I found it in Current Archaeology,
http://www.archaeology.co.uk/directory/career.asp?cat=1

Age 22 - the circuit
OK, you are 22. You have your degree, but you don't know what to do. You can always go on 'the circuit', that is going round from site to site, digging, and camping or staying in digs. It is great fun for a couple of years, but do not stay in it for too long.
If say by the age of 25 you have not made it - you are not yet a site supervisor and almost ready to become a project manager - you should consider getting out, getting a qualification, become a lawyer or an accountant or a computer expert. The job may be boring but the pay will be good - and that is a not unimportant consideration in life.
And the experience you have gained will mean that you will be very welcome as a weekend digger with your local society. Is it not perhaps better to be do a boring but well-paid job five days a week - and enjoy your archaeology at the weekends?
Age 28: am I too late?
You are not an archaeologist. You are stuck in a dull, boring job. You dream of getting out to enjoy yourself and become an archaeologist. Please, think twice!
Archaeology is very competitive, and by now you will need a lot of luck to make a decent living in archaeology.
Still, if you are really determined, you could look up the CHuNTO website and see if you can get a diploma in cultural heritage studies. Many archaeologists are suspicious of such diplomas, but the government has high hopes of them.
I?m 38 shall I jump off a bridge?


Spare a job Please

[destroyer]

Deja Vu again... yeah we've discussed this at least once before Judy. As for jumping, i'd have thought it depends upon the height of the bridge and whether, with your archaeologist knees, you can manage to climb to the top of it.

Check out the "when is it time to say goodbye" thread in the starting out in archaeology forum for a previous discussion of it, (before we got off topic and onto slagging off consultants again!)

[judy]

Ok, Sorry did not pay attention to earlier threads. The real question is we need an answer to this 50 some thing view by some one who became successful after the age of 35. Do you know any one, apart from me off course?
Don?t slag any one off you never know who have vacancy, be nice


Spare a job Please

[trowelhead]

Dear Judy,
I took a degree in archaeology at the age of 30. I am now a senior archaeologist. I had the same worries as you but in this buisiness you have to really want to get on and NEVER give up and you will succeed. With consultancy posts springing up all over the country the emphasis to just work for a unit is not your only option anymore unless you want bad pay and naff conditions. Archaeology is a fickle bed fellow and there are more opertunities than you think feild archaeology is just one. Ok many people initially cut their teeth in the feild but after the working away from home and aching joints take effect you have to ask yourself where do I go now?

If you want to get on you will do, no question, but be prepared for a bumpy ride as there a plenty of people out there who will do all they can to make it as difficult as posssible. As its such a small proffesion the jobs and opertunities are far and few between but they are there, never reveal your hand and you will be fine. Remember the people who have the top jobs arnt supermen they have just been stuborn and persivered and taken every opertunity given.

Good Luck.

Hope that gives you some encouragement.

[the invisible man]

My advice, for what it's worth, is to "treat with great caution" anything written by the editor of that magazine, or printed within it or on its website.

And Judy, you think you've got a problem, I'm 49 and in my final year at uni! Budge up a bit on that bridge a bit would you, make room......

Today, Bradford. Tomorrow, well, Bradford probably.

[judy]

You know what I think I will budge so at lest I?ll chat to some one about archaeology on the way up, or maybe down, who knows?}

Spare a job Please

[Louloubelle]

Chin up Judy, there are plenty of us over 30 types around. I am doing a part-time MA 10 years after graduating and working in a totally different career. Bit of a shock realising how difficult getting back into the swing is, but persistence is everything.

[Sith]

quote:Originally posted by judy

The real question is we need an answer to this 50 some thing view by some one who became successful after the age of 35.

Fifty-something? Blimey, I thought that Mr Selkirk was much older than that and as far as I'm aware, the only thing he's been successful at is producing and flogging CA. [:0]

D. Vader
Senior Consultant

Vader Maull & Palpatine


Archaeological Consultants

(Corrected for rank stupidity)

We are the consultants you are looking for

[1man1desk]

Just spoke to one of my colleagues, now in a senior position in my organisation. He took up archaeology at 34 and has not found age a bar to success.

1man1desk

to let, fully furnished

[the invisible man]

Sith, I presume you mean Mr Selkirk? Conscious of the new AUP I will go no further!

1man, at 34 this guy was a mere whippersnapper - still in short trousers! Unfortunately I fancy myself as a prehistorian - I'd be better off if I specialised in post-med as I can remember most of it - no need to dig it up!

Today, Bradford. Tomorrow, well, Bradford probably.