anthropology: what the dreams are made of.

I think it’s a fact that no one can survive by doing only what he or she loves the most (or that means you are the luckiest guy on earth, which is quite improbable) so we always have to choose between being extremely happy by doing what we want or make something that we don’t love that much but that will provide us enough money to survive.
Such is the case when you choose to study and work in anthropology. There’s not much work field in this country for anthropologists and archaeologists, basically because we have to be honest: nobody knows what the hell we are doing.
That makes quite hard to find a work as an anthropologist or archaeologist, and basically has to do with the fact that there’s not a preoccupation for teach, at the university, what make anthropologists special between the rest of social scientists (by the way, that thing that make us special is to consider the cultural factor when explaining social behavior and practices), so when an anthropology student is searching for a work, he or she doesn’t know how to explain what makes them a good acquisition.
In my personal experience, I had plenty of certainty that I wasn’t going to make any money by being archaeologist (the main reason why I decided to sign in the degree) and that my only chance to find a work was in a University-related project (if I was lucky and had enough determination to not to quite the degree at first year) or if I was even more lucky, hoping that the architects that my mother works with would recruit me to work in issues environmental-impact-related with their building projects.
Now is quite different because there’s a third option at the degree: Physical anthropology or biological anthropology. I didn’t like its field very much, basically because I thought it was very mathematics-related. But this term I’ve been working at the physical anthropology laboratory and I really like what they do there, especially the phylogenetic study. The best of this new (new for me) option to considerate is that I even could have a good payment by working in specific fields like forensic anthropology. Nevertheless I think that I would study archaeology no matter how hard it would be (which proves that I’m quite stubborn).
That’s all for this post. Be good and take care.