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mportance sure they were interesting and great to visit but i didn t think of them as having a larger significance they were just places where we stopped on a sunday trip into the countryside or on a holiday day out it was only when i got to university and found that they were illustrated and discussed in the text books and you were now expected to research quite a bit more about them and remember it that i realised the broader importance of these places it was certainly valuable to be able to go back to personal memories of visiting such sites in many ways it made the academic research much easier and more enjoyable years later in discussing this with my parents we agreed that it wasn t too surprising that i ended up in archaeology having been exposed to so much of it as a child now that i think of it i m surprised how my brother and two sisters didn t end up in archaeology i suppose this is the thing to my parents theses were just day trips somewhere nice to see on holiday or just get the family out of the house for the afternoon but to me these were deeply formative experiences that shaped my entire life i m lucky my siblings even talk to me i used always say that the best advice my dad ever gave me was to find the job you enjoy and you ll never feel that you re working he d left school and wanted to join the raf but it didn t work out for him he ended up drifting through a number of jobs until he found that accountancy not only interested him but he had a huge aptitude for it i now realise that my mother only wanted the best for me but when i was a kid i only ever felt that i was being pushed into joining my dad s accountancy firm i think that she had a pretty good idea as to how difficult life might be as an archaeologist and felt that i should head for something safer and more secure when we finally talked it out that i didn t fancy a life as an accountant she instead suggested that i become a teacher again something considered safe and secure when even that failed to convince me i remember that she suggested that i entered the priesthood a nice safe livelihood that would allow me to bring up a family in financially secure environment it would even come with a house and car and i could still pursue archaeology as a hobby i pointed out that i lacked sufficient levels of belief for this to be a viable proposition and the idea was quietly dropped all the while my dad was very supportive he d worked on an archaeological excavation when he was a schoolboy and had things been different would loved to have gone on to study archaeology himself but here s the thing twenty odd years later i see things rather differently i ve relatively few regrets about my time in field archaeology other than the poor pay and conditions and the wreck it made of my knees and major joints if i d not ended up with a non archaeologist wife i d never have had sufficient financial security to afford a house and raise a family it s one thing to ponder the advice you d give to young people in general about whether or not they should consider archaeology as a career but when it comes to what i may yet have to discuss with my sons the chapples minor i really struggle to find any good reasons to do it i went into archaeology knowing that it would require sacrifices i thought that they would be about long hours hard work and travelling miles to excavations and not being particularly appreciated for what you do when you get there but i never realised the true implications of it all the lack of financial security the lack of simple job security the absence of any real career progression to speak of all these things and still enough of the excitement remains that i feel unable to condemn it completely as i said before being out of the business of archaeology has allowed me huge freedoms to concentrate on the bits that i still love doing i ve gotten back to visiting sites and bringing my kids along and i still write and research for my own hobby projects i suppose that brings us back in part to blogging for my part i started in august 2011 when i was looking to find ways of raising my public profile the company i was with looked likely to go under and i wanted to have something anything to differentiate me from the rest of the gang out looking for work i considered various strategies including getting some rather nice business cards made up and for want of anything better to do i reckoned i d set up a blog my primary concerns were that i d not find enough to write about and that no one would be interested in what i had to say you mention that you were wary of embarking on your own blog what gave you cause for concern and how did you decide to move ahead with the idea anyway tbom you know i have yet to get business cards but they are on my list that is something i shall have to look in to so yes i started this site back in january or february 2011 on roughly the same grounds as yours i had finished my undergraduate degree i was hunting for a job and i knew that i wanted to pursue a master s degree to specialise in human osteology yet i felt that i needed to do something else that i wanted to continue to write about archaeology and bioarchaeology for the sheer fun of it partly i had quickly surveyed the online blogging bioarchaeology world and could not find much out there in break downs of the skeletal system as it is studied in human osteology for bioarchaeology so i had my unique selling point the half finished skeletal series posts further to this is was also a personal occupation i wanted to write and i wanted to improve at it at the same time but yes i also had reservations about the enterprise i was worried that i d trash my name if i wrote freely online i was worried that whatever i wrote could potentially impact on someone s career or personal reputation i was worried that i d write and frankly that it would not lead anywhere at this point i still envisioned a full and lasting career in bioarchaeology it has not been deflated since but i am in a position where i must work to fund my hobbies but the work impedes on my progress blogging at the academic level i thought was only pursued by those who are focusing on the discipline themselves researchers who devoted themselves full time to their passions this was of course a naive assumption on my part where blogging archaeology can take you part 1 yerba buena area in san francisco april 2015 i was here as a part of the society for american archaeologists annual 80th conference taking part in a session on the theory and method of the bioarchaeology of care methodology author s own photograph but i thought in the end nothing ventured nothing gained and why not in the end blogging has kept me distinctly in the loop as it were it is how i remain informed on field schools specific new technologies and methodologies it has also had a great impact on the ability to meet people with the same interest and not just online thank you once again for the meal and the drinks in belfast following the day of the dead conference in 2014 at queen s university i have to say i am very glad i joined the blogging world i would suggest to anyone to get involved but i d make sure you have your own morals and ethics to posting to be aware of the information that you are putting out and why also try to be consistent in some way or form nothing says half arsed like a barely wrote blog that still exists what are your feelings on blogging rmc first thing i d say is not to underestimate the importance of shelling out a few quid on business cards i don t think they ve ever gotten me work but there have been some dark times when seeing the words robert m chapple archaeologist written down on a piece of paper has brought some much needed reassurance with regard to my motivations in embarking on a blogging adventure i see that you thought the whole thing through with more depth and clarity than i did i never really thought of the downsides other than the entire archaeological world having irrefutable proof that i m pretty shallow and without much capacity for original thought i do say that it was started as a semi cynical attempt at self promotion but that is not completely true there remains the simple fact that i ve always loved to write and i wanted to try my hand at something looser than the very formal academic tone i d become so used to as anyone can see from my early posts this was a steep learning curve and it took me quite a while to find my place and speak with an authentic voice i suppose another difference from your approach is that i didn t particularly feel that there was a niche that particularly needed me in it there were already a decent crop of skilled communicators out there writing for and about irish archaeology if i d been a deeper thinker i reckon i d have left the blogging scene in the capable hands it was already in but where s the fun in that i really want to talk about your comment nothing says half arsed like a barely wrote blog that still exists that was my only real fear in starting blogging that i d not find the stuff to write about or the time to do it i ve written before that an article on cracked com about the 8 worst types of blog on the internet was very influential on my thinking one of the offences they identify is the let s start a blog blog a blog with only one post where the author got caught up in the idea of having a blog but not in actually providing content i had no idea what i was going to write about but i knew that i was going to have to make an effort it might be badly written and boring but there would be more than one post one way or another i had envisioned my blogging as something i would be doing within the context of remaining as a professional field archaeologist i had intended that it would be a place where i could write about the things that interested me but i wasn t particularly convinced that anyone would read any of it the first breakthrough piece i wrote that seemed to make people sit up and notice was in response to a another blog post that claimed the celtic tiger years had been detrimental to irish archaeology i disagreed and wrote was the building boom so bad for irish archaeology a reply to fin dwyer it was a pretty big hit for me when most of my posts struggled to hit 100 readers in a week this shot to over 1000 reads in just a couple of days up until that i couldn t have begged or bribed people to engage with me in comments but suddenly i was in the midst of a to me at least significant little media storm with multiple simultaneous conversations going on across the comments section of the post and in various corners of social media i m not sure if i was writing it today i d be so fully committed to the arguments i present in that post but i think its an interesting artefact of where my thinking lay at that time although i ve not discussed it publicly before probably the biggest lesson i learned at that time was my vulnerability in speaking my mind and still being employed with an archaeological consultancy at that time as a senior staff member with the lot i worked with i had administrator access to the company facebook page and could post as the company i d emailed the office manager and if it could be put on the page i even cautioned that it might be deemed controversial and was told to go ahead and do it myself it ll be fine although one of the company directors had seen the post elsewhere and loved it the office manager decided that it was more controversial than she d imagined i got a strongly worded email saying that the company could not allow itself to be associate in any way with the post and that it had been deleted i also found that i and the rest of the senior staff no longer had administrative privileges for the facebook page it was really only a minor altercation but it made me very aware of how precarious the right to freedom of speech is when attempting to balance a number of variables especially when you run the risk of offending the sensibilities of some little martinet after that i consciously or not seem to have played it safe for a while as i appear to have concentrated on book reviews and similarly non confrontational pieces but the lure of jumping in with all guns blazing was too tempting to make me stay out of trouble for long as things have worked out i left archaeology as my day job i m now rather happily employed in the world of it it had many advantages including decent pay regular hours adherence to legal requirements for health and safety and i m not made to regularly give thanks for the pleasure of being treated like dung for the privilege of having a job etc all stuff i sum up as it s indoors there s no heavy lifting for all that back in december 2011 i was still in the position of being 40 and unemployed i d walked out of my supposedly permanent job in the profession i adored and now had no idea where i d go and what i d do while i was receiving notifications that i wasn t qualified for basic entry level positions in various places i kept writing for my blog at that stage i just needed something to keep me sane and stop me from despairing at my lack of success and direction in life by the time i got the post where i am currently i just continued writing it seemed therapeutic and it has allowed me to transition from one realm of employment to another with much greater ease than i imagine it would have been if i d just made a clean break of it as i ve alluded to before the fact that i m independent of the archaeological world has allowed me to be much freer in what i write about knowing that i m not beholden to anyone in the field for work and most especially that i don t have to face an angry employer or their office minions after i post something controversial i very much agree with you on what you say about blogging allowing you to feel connected to the wider archaeological world i remember years ago going to a conference on the burgeoning field of archaeological perspectives on gravestones and feeling overwhelmed that there were other people out there that shared my interests and were thinking along the same lines as myself even trying to keep in touch with the published literature you never got the same sense that there were other people out there working away in universities and in spare bedrooms to hone their ideas and publish their findings with social media all that has now changed you can be anywhere from azerbaijan to zimbabwe and once you have an internet connection you can tap into what the latest research though and discussion is in your preferred field blogging is to bloggers at least a vital part in that great effort of communication and yes i really do feel connected to the wider archaeological world through it i ve joked before and with only slight bitterness that i ve become more influential and respected in the time since i left professional archaeology than i ever was in the 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