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Lucian N Schrader III - Episode 22
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Profiles in CRM features short interviews with CRM professionals from all experience levels and educational levels. I ask a standard list of questions and see how each person answers them based on their experience.
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Introduction to Profiles in CRM
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You are listening to the Archaeology Podcast Network. This is Lucian N. Schroeder III, and you're listening to Profiles in Sierra.
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Welcome to Profiles in CRM, Episode 22.
Introducing the Eight Questions Format
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I'm your host, Chris Webster. Profiles in CRM asks CRM professionals eight simple questions. The answers vary wildly depending on their experience and education. Because of the nature of contract archaeology and how small this field really is, some people choose not to reveal their name or the company they work for. Stay to the end of the show to hear how you can have a chance to answer these same questions.
Live Recording at SAA's Exhibit Hall
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All right, we're here in Profiles live at the, well, not live, because this is a podcast, but I'm live at the SAA's. Yeah, in the exhibit hall. So we've got a little bit of noise, but that adds some realism, some rawness to it.
Meet Lucian Enshrader III
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So here's the first question on Profiles. What is your name and who do you work for? My name is Lucian Enshrader III. I work for Transcon Environmental. So how long have you been working in CRM? I have been working in CRM for 12 years.
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Nice, 12 years, all right. So what is the position you usually have in CRM and what is the highest position you've ever attained? So like, you know, field tech, crew chief, project manager, stuff like that. Most of the time for the past several years, I've been crew chief, but recently I got a promotion and I'm sort of project manager, principal investigator for small projects.
Career Highlights and Personal Stories
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Nice, nice. And where have you worked in the country? Mainly just California, Nevada, Utah, just the West.
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Gotcha. Well, that still covers like a third of the country, I think. So it's pretty good. It's the best part of the country. Yeah. West is best. All right. So what is the best thing that's happened to you that's related to being an archaeologist? And this can be from personal to professional to whatever. I think finding my wife out in the middle of Nevada, because no one expects to find love in Nevada, but I did. Right.
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And just so our listeners know, I think my wife, whether it's true or not, takes full credit for that.
Challenges in CRM: Work Stability and Mentorship
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All right, and what is the biggest thing you would change that would make being a CRM archaeologist better?
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I'd love to be able to guarantee steady work for everyone, but it's just not the nature of the business right now. It's contract specific and it's just so difficult to keep people full time, especially when you work with people underneath you and you build a mentorship and you invest your time and energy in those people. It's just, it's sort of heartbreaking when you kind of lay them off because you don't have any work for them.
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And if you have to keep doing this, doing this back and forth, back and forth on a contract basis, you're just going to burn them out. And it's just, it's sad. It'd be nice to have just steady work.
Balancing Work and Family
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Yeah, that's always the challenge, especially if you want to like homestead and be in one place, you kind of have to move around almost. Totally. And when I have my family, it's just, I can't do those 10 day rotations out on the field anymore for
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an extended period of time. I don't want to be away from my family 75, 80% of the month most of the year. I'd miss watching them grow up and I don't want to do that. I want to be there to witness the small times, the small moments in life. Right. Yeah, absolutely.
Future Goals: Stability and Personal Aspirations
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So what is your career goal in CRM? This is the 5, 10, 15, 20 year question.
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In five years, I hope to be employed. In 10 years, I hope to be employed. In 15 years, I hope to be employed with a house. In 20 years, I hope to be employed with a house and a nice wine collection. Spoken like a true California archaeologist. Some rocks in the backyard.
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Outstanding. Outstanding. All right. So final question.
Advice for Aspiring CRM Professionals
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If you could give an undergrad thinking about a career in CRM one piece of advice, what would that be? Be flexible. Just be flexible. Yeah. Yeah. I mean. Move with the system. Move with the system. Be open for any task. Go to wherever you can to find work and listen.
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Buy the first round, pick people's brains, just be flexible, but be safe, watch out for yourself. But yeah, I mean, it's just one of those things, you gotta be flexible with the whole CRM business, because it's not steady. You gotta move around a bit, but you can also learn things from all the different companies.
Conclusion and Participation Details
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Show notes for this and all episodes can be found on the Archaeology Podcast Network website at www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com forward slash profiles. At that page you'll also find a form that you can fill out so you can be interviewed on the show. Interviewers take less than 30 minutes and you don't need any special equipment. Thanks for listening and I'll see you in the field.
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This has been a presentation of the Archaeology Podcast Network. Visit us on the web for show notes and other podcasts at www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com Contact us at chrisatarchaeologypodcastnetwork.com