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Postby Justacrazyguy » Mon Dec 02, 2019 1:33 pm

I've recently gotten my first job and the experience has been mostly positive so far. This post is in the FML thread because of what I had to do before I got the job. I was following some digs a construction firm did to install some water tubes or something along those lines. My family doesn't have any experience with this sort of independent job. I had to get insurance and a bunch of papers I'd never heard of before and the experience was more tiring than the job itself, witch, due to not much of anything popping up, consisted mostly of me watching other people work. I'm just not used to the kind of bureaucracy these jobs require. Unfortunately, they are the more common work an archaeologist can find so I have to get used to them, has there will likely be times when I have no other job offers.

Thankfully, the pay is pretty decent.
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Postby Reichu » Sun Dec 08, 2019 12:04 am

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Postby ran1 » Sun Dec 08, 2019 5:46 am

View Original PostJustacrazyguy wrote:Unfortunately, they are the more common work an archaeologist can find so I have to get used to them, has there will likely be times when I have no other job offers.


Have you considered Central Asia? I was in Almaty (Kazakhstan) last year as a tourist and almost took a job with a dig for 4 months. I have an anthropology minor and some experience with dig sites as a photographer, but probably nothing approaching your credentials. Just the travel bug and an expensive camera kit with macro lenses. They're so desperate for crew they'll hire anyone out there. Plenty of French Unis who are digging up Greco-Baktrian ruins.
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Postby Justacrazyguy » Sun Dec 08, 2019 9:15 am

View Original Postran1 wrote: They're so desperate for crew they'll hire anyone out there.


I've heard similar stories about archaeological sites in some eastern European countries. Going to a far off country and making some money is appealing, but right now the thing I need to do the most after I finish my thesis is getting more experience with Roman sites, since that's the area I'm going to focus on. That means the farthest I'd go would probably be Turkey. Unfortunately, most of these archaeological excavations off Europe are done by English, french and German universities, and sometimes some Americans and Canadians. Poor little Portugal never got much into the whole "digging up poor countries stuff" that was all the rage in the XIX and XX century and still continues to a degree today.

Still, the possibility is there, and I've heard the stories plenty of my professors have of doing similar things, but, if I'm looking at it right, it's stuff I'll only be able to even consider a few years down the line.
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Postby Gus Hanson » Fri Jan 03, 2020 7:30 pm

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Postby child of Lilith » Sat Jan 04, 2020 5:44 am

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Postby The Flying Fortress » Sun Jan 05, 2020 8:24 pm

So is this the virtual concept of people drinking sitting at the counter of a pub complaining about life?

Anyway, I can say that my life after 18 is just a painful cycle, uneventful, unimproved or how cliché it may seem, it's like seeing a social, financial or academic evolution of someone around you. Im been standing for half a decade, that's a little scary.

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Postby ::KL7:: » Sun Jan 19, 2020 7:58 pm

Anyway, I can say that my life after 18 is just a painful cycle, uneventful, unimproved or how cliché it may seem, it's like seeing a social, financial or academic evolution of someone around you. Im been standing for half a decade, that's a little scary.

Care to elaborate?
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Postby Shamsiel-kun » Wed Feb 12, 2020 3:29 am

Sooooo...anyone else thinking 2020 is shaping up nicely to be the year of the apocalypse?

- Fiery disaster in Australia
- Climate crisis going out of hand
- Inept presidents and other governments actively trying to damage their own country out of greed
- Rise of the ultra-right
- ...and now the new plague from China.

And it's only halfway February. :facepalm: :bigeyes:
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Postby Justacrazyguy » Wed Feb 12, 2020 7:28 am

View Original PostShamsiel-kun wrote:Sooooo...anyone else thinking 2020 is shaping up nicely to be the year of the apocalypse?


All the things you wrote about happen nearly every year. I'd say there's no reason to be more negative about this year than any other that came before it.
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Postby The Flying Fortress » Tue Feb 18, 2020 9:26 am

View Original Post::KL7:: wrote:Care to elaborate?


I don’t get it, you mean?

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Postby nullyoaG » Thu Feb 20, 2020 9:34 am

View Original PostShamsiel-kun wrote:Sooooo...anyone else thinking 2020 is shaping up nicely to be the year of the apocalypse?

- Fiery disaster in Australia
- Climate crisis going out of hand
- Inept presidents and other governments actively trying to damage their own country out of greed
- Rise of the ultra-right
- ...and now the new plague from China.

And it's only halfway February. :facepalm: :bigeyes:

nah.... bushfires dont do anything here. and we could just escape to antarctica if climate gets out of control. the new plague is just sars 2.0...apocalypse wont come until sun turns red giant but that is still billions of years awy and hopefully by tht time we would have converted the planet into a ship or something like the death star in star wars....not saying 2020 isnt possibly going to have some weird event or not...but jsut not the things you listed

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Postby robersora » Thu Feb 20, 2020 11:18 am

yeah, I was always wondering if maybe Antarctica will be our haven when everything else turns uninhabitable.
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Postby Shamsiel-kun » Wed Feb 26, 2020 11:16 am

Well, Sars 2.0 is shaping up to probably become a total disaster in my country because the authorities seem to think it is merely Flu 2.0, are not actually testing anyone, deny that tests are necessary, deny that it can spread very fast (I guess that's why it's showing up at the border a few days after the number of Italian cases skyrocketed a few 100 km away... :rolleyes: ), are still giving out information that is two weeks out of date, contradict the WHO, etc. :facepalm:
Worse, the person who is supposed to lead the fallback government in case the normal one gets incapacitated got within touching distance of a now infected person in the Iranian government and instead of getting himself tested he thinks he's Superman and he can shrug off the disease. :crazytwirl: :headbash:

We are truly well and totally screwed.

Especially considering the number of dumb fucks who gobble up the government propaganda and also believe it's Flu 2.0. :irked:
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Postby child of Lilith » Thu Feb 27, 2020 3:46 am

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Postby robersora » Thu Feb 27, 2020 5:09 am

Just wash your hands, and hope nobody sneezes you into the face - you're pretty young and, I assume, healthy, so you should be fine even if you end up catching the virus.
While I think it's good that caution is exercised, the hysteria is totally out of place. Year in, year out so many more people (in absolute numbers as well as in percentage of people affected) die of influenza and nobody cares - there's even people who question the fact that we have vaccines against influenza. But that's a whole other topic.

It just goes to show how the media machine and group think are dangerous things.
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Postby Shamsiel-kun » Sat Feb 29, 2020 3:02 am

Actually, yesterday I realized I am more scared of the lack of government response (now they have some infectees they still go on saying "it's just a heavy flu" and give the most rosy outcome possible as the worst possible option :cringe: ) and especially my compatriots reaction to that. A lot of people's attitude towards the flu here is "Let's go to work and infect all my colleagues by not bothering to wash hands etc." :facepalm:

Although I did have a chuckle yesterday at the news reporters that started sounding quite distressed after days of basically claiming that anyone suggesting the disease was going to show up in my country was panicking and spreading FUD. Such irony.

Edit: Yesterday...was interesting. Very quiet in the supermarket (for a Saturday afternoon), quite quiet in the center of The Hague, and unfortunately an old guy who looked positively sick (feverishly sweaty and coughing the whole time - you know, coronavirus symptoms :facepalm: ) on the bus back home. He had been shopping at a shopping mall with his wife, who also didn't seem very good. :cringe: They got out of the bus in one of the city's poorest neighbourhoods, so I'm sure that will work out fine :bigeyes: :irked: .
Anyway, now we're up to 7-8 cases, all people who recently went to Italy and their family. The bad bit: One of those is in the city where I work, and based on their age they could very well be a student. Dutch students are not known for their hygiene. The really bad bit: last week was a holiday, and many people went to Italy on holiday, skiing in the north. Incubation is 1-3 weeks, so expect an explosion of cases in the coming weeks. This could have been avoidable, if only out government would be taking a proactive stance instead of a reactive one :rolleyes: .
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Postby Gus Hanson » Sat Feb 29, 2020 6:34 pm

Today after dining at Denny's, I went to Walmart where not only was there nothing of huge interest but mainly the old people nearby were sneezing out of control. It doesn't help matters either that the store intentionally to save money doesn't use air conditioning. So it was a waste of time altogether and I could've gotten sick as well. Guess I have to stick to shopping through internet for now.
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Postby The Flying Fortress » Sun Mar 01, 2020 7:13 pm

It is still not so bad compared to H1N1, the difference from 2009 to today, is that the Internet in general has intensified the sharing of false news and theories of disease spread.

By the way, my country has more than 200 suspected cases of coronavirus, 1 month ago and that number did not have 3 digits, a change of scenery so sudden causes unnecessary panic and makes people ignore the word "suspect".


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