That's clearly how to make a living in archaeology. One could even offer
the real experience- digging in freezing mud for 8 hours everyday being
shouted out by some director who ought to have be locked away in an insane
asylum- followed by having to sleep in an unheated barn so cold the elsan
freezes for 3 months and has to be emptied with a pick axe- followed by
decades of pain killers to get to sleep at night. Waiting 12 months for
someone to pay you for 6 months work. Being given 2 weeks money to edit a
major report that you only finish by working unpaid 100 hours a week for 3
months then get biten by a mosquito on the holiday to recover and can't
work for 6 months. Or writing reports to 6 am every night only to have to
wait 12 years for it to be published by a certain national archaeology
organisation (I'm still waiting). Sorry I'm obviously feeling a bit bitter
today. Barbeques- my !!!!!!!!!
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