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Precisely my point. There are lots of professions these days where the financial and material rewards are poor or less than they used to be. We might as well at least be happy doing something we enjoy and forget about keeping up with the rat race......
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28th July 2013, 03:49 PM
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Here is a fun fact on the topic of student loans- when they passed that it was anticipated that 30-40% of students would NEVER pay back the loans (em's the official government reckoning). The student loans idea was 50% f u and 50% budget cuts and 100% kick the can down the road 20-30 years to when the loans are forgiven and there is a hole in the budget.
It more has to do with accounting magic than actually caring about people making smart decisions about their education.
I already know one new archaeology graduate who has started a business, pays himself under the 25k but puts things like petrol, his car, etc. etc. under his business. If his business/himself does well then he can call his flat an office, his dinners business meetings, etc. He will never make 25k in salary but he will live very nice (assuming his "business" does well). I bet you will see lots of one person companies. Probably act like banks and give themselves bonuses, dividends or whatever accounting trick they need to avoid going over the 25k and paying back student loans.
And then there will be everyone else who will be stuck at under 25k because it will cost them a fortune to earn more.
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don't worry Doug I have made an in-depth analysis and have discovered that all money is that ever was, was in effect just printed and has nothing to do with bullion. Now that we are virtual all that has to be done is add a few noughts. When we live in a true democracy we will be able individually to do this rather than at the moment letting the banks get away with it. If this was the roman period I would be busy melting down old sestertius and turning them into something smaller. Pity that this town that once had a mint didn't keep hold of it.
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Unitof1 Wrote:don't worry Doug I have made an in-depth analysis and have discovered that all money is that ever was, was in effect just printed and has nothing to do with bullion. Now that we are virtual all that has to be done is add a few noughts. When we live in a true democracy we will be able individually to do this rather than at the moment letting the banks get away with it. If this was the roman period I would be busy melting down old sestertius and turning them into something smaller. Pity that this town that once had a mint didn't keep hold of it.
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archaeologists need to ask questions
archaeologists dont need to find answers
archaeologists interpret what they find in the context of what has been found and interpretted before
there are no answers and there is no truth
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers
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Dinosaur Wrote:When we need a crew around here we just phone up the usual suspects
great - so you have loads of people who i presume are not continually employed, then get paid a pittance for an occasional short term contract. no doubt they all know their place and your directors make a nice profit. everybody up north is happy, tra la la
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers
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@ P Prentice I thought archaeology was about the search for answers?? Which are sometimes found. For example you find remains of a cemetery, the questions then asked what date? What size? and so forth ... the answer comes that its Roman in date therefore
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P Prentice Wrote:great - so you have loads of people who i presume are not continually employed, then get paid a pittance for an occasional short term contract. no doubt they all know their place and your directors make a nice profit. everybody up north is happy, tra la la
As it happens they're mostly off working for another outfit, things have dovetailed nicely for them all for once, think most have been pretty much continuously employed since sometime last year thanks, and hopefully the fortuitous dovetailing may mean work for some if not all of them for at least the next 18 months as well, when we get 'em back
Why would anyone want to pay someone wages for doing nothing?...weird....except in the case of the Government of course....
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Quote:Unless I'm missing something, I thought archaeology was all about questions, seeking answers and looking for truth???
Isnt it something to do with the colour of a horse or was that a form. I think though that you are confusing something called archaeology and being a professional archaeologist. It could be that you think that a professional archaeologists exist because they produce truth rather than what ever an archaeologist does is archaeology. For me what ever I do is archaeology. I imagine that you might not find that it is the truth. But then I am not a believer. Out of interest what truth do you imagine an archaeologist produces?
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Bonesgirl Wrote:...archaeologists would seek answers and to find truth either there is or there isn't a round barrow.
Unless I'm missing something, I thought archaeology was all about questions, seeking answers and looking for truth???
In the case of one of my current projects, tis more about enabling the client to then reposition his planned houses to stop us finding out if my barrow's a barrow - unregulated subsequent gardening will doubtless then get rid of the 'problem' so no one'll ever know
why can't I just find some work?
