I'm a computer science lecturer.
When I was a kid I wanted to be an archaeologist so I became one of those first. No future in it. Career was in ruins. Etc.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 8:57, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

that's really cool, how come you jacked in the archaelogy, all puns aside?
I guess it's not as much like being Indiana Jones as one would like to think. Although you probably do have a whip.

I couldn't be a lecturer, I like my work to involve as few other people as possible. My CV says "works well in a team", just one of the many lies.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 8:59, Reply)

There really were limited options in archaeology.
I was working on rescue excavations all round the country. No sick pay, no holiday pay, no union. To get job security you needed to specialise so I decided to specialise in computers.

I love archaeology. My research still includes it but I don't get to dig much any more and I miss that.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 9:02, Reply)

You get to dig poo out of a babys bottom

(Bazongaloid, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 9:03, Reply)

ew
too early Al. Too early.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 9:06, Reply)

I am actually astonished at how my happiness now depends on someone's bowel movements.
Not quite at scat level yet though.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 9:11, Reply)

when you find yourself writing about it in your facebook status
back...away...from...the PC
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 9:15, Reply)

"She did two poos today and one of them was really runny!!!111!!!eleventyone!! lol Good girl!!"

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 9:17, Reply)

You've been on mumsnet haven't you.
Have you been unreasonable by having sex while the baby is in the room?
(Bazongaloid, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 9:20, Reply)

Good lord, I don't have to have sex for at least another two months!

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 9:22, Reply)

I'm sure Catface is glad to know you keep a close eye on his movements.
How is the little fuzzy one? And how is the baby?
(Bazongaloid, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 9:15, Reply)

Both are full of shit.
I love them anyway.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 9:16, Reply)

Awwwww

(Bazongaloid, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 9:20, Reply)

Worryingly, I have become really fucking hormonally pathetic since giving birth.
I do not like this weak, placid state. I watch the news and it's horrible and people are mean or dying or both and I feel an overwhelming urge to protect my child from the awful world. I want my cynicism back.

Alternatively, I would like a news channel devoted entirely to penguins. Happy news. Headlines like "today, a penguin was rescued by a puppy" - and then there'd be a montage of penguins and puppies and Jon Snow smiling happily at the camera. I could raise a child in that world.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 9:21, Reply)

You must really dig history to be an archaeologist

(PsychoChomp, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 9:06, Reply)

Nah, it's a load of old crap.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 9:13, Reply)

I've got a chum who has a degree in archaeology.
But he now works for the highways agency writing letters to people, telling them to fuck off, the road they are talking about is owned by the council.

He hates his job, but loves the flexitime.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 9:13, Reply)

He hates his job?
Getting to write letters telling people to fuck off? That'd be, like, my second dream job.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 9:16, Reply)

He is a confirmed under achiever, and he is forced to do this work
because his bosses are all unable to write a decent letter.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 9:20, Reply)