Archaeology as a career - worth it or not?

I do live and work in europe. I got a job, it is payed terrible for the kind of work we do, but all in all I love it. I work as an excavation technician and study the master in prehistory. I think you have 2 options in archeology: work for an scientific institution (universities etc.), they do have digs like organized in campaigns, dig in summer and work on the material the rest of the year. It‘s quite difficult to get in and get work permanently, because you get mostly payed per project with limited contracts. The 2nd option is commercial archeology. I don‘t know the status in the US, but laws in most europe forbid just to destroy sites for construction. The reality is, that they destroy them quite often, but if the state or any institution cares there are excavation companies or other societies, which rescue the most findings and as much data as required by law. There your get (low) income on regular bases, but the focus is not that much in archeology but to work efficient.

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