Admittedly this blog page hasn’t been used as much as I had hoped when I initially set up the website, but as I have written a blog for the Day of Archaeology page I thought it would be a bit of a kick up the backside to cross post here –
I really enjoy the annual Day of Archaeology, now included as part of the Council for British Archaeology, and this year I have been looking back over some of my previous entries reflecting on how my life and writing style has completely changed.
I have found some of the earlier writing on Archaeology Data Service and I can’t remember if I wrote any others – but either way it very much demonstrates an evolution:
https://www.archaeologyuk.org/resource/a-day-in-archaeology-2020—where-to-even-begin-.html
The early posts are so dry – I remember when we first set up the company being so hyper-aware of presenting myself as a ‘professional’ and not wanting to share anything personal. This changed in the later blogs starting around 2017 with the realisation that commercial archaeology needs to be much more open about what a career in archaeology feels like – especially around the realities of balancing a career in archaeology with family and personal life. We need to talk more about the practicalities of being in the field, the lows as well as the highs and the admission that maybe we are all winging it and luck is a big part in making it through.
My career has been absolutely nothing like I had expected it to be – it has been simultaneously a whole lot better and so, so much worse than 18 year old me could ever have imagined! Would I make the same decisions again – hand on heart I am not sure, and I am in a good place at the moment.
Annwn BC 
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