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David Field - Episode 62
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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 and Podcast Overview
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you are listening to the archaeology podcast network the archaeology podcast network is sponsored by codify a california benefit corporation visit codify at www.codifi.com this is david field and you're listening to profiles and crm
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Welcome
Q&A Introduction with Chris Webster
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to Profiles in CRM, Episode 62. I'm your host, Chris Webster. Profiles in CRM asks CRM professionals nine 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.
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Alright, we're here on Profiles, and here's the first question.
David Field: Education and Career Beginnings
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What is your name? My name is David Field. Okay, and what's the highest degree you've earned? A bachelor's degree. Okay, and how long have you been working in CRM? I've been working off and on in CRM for about 10 years. In there, I took a five-year hiatus. I'd say
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Combined maybe four years. Mm-hmm. Not an uncommon thing to take a hiatus in this field, isn't so No, at least you came back. Yeah, I would actually advise it Yeah, that's a whole other episode All right, so where have you worked what states have you worked in I've worked kind of lower Midwest Southern, Illinois, Kentucky
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Worked further east, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia. Probably missing a couple in there, but kind of in the Southwest and the Great Basin, Nevada, Central California, Arizona, and now New Mexico.
David's Role and Personal Journey in CRM Archaeology
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Nice. Okay. And what is the position that you usually have on a CRM crew and what's the highest position you've ever held? And that's, you know, in the line of field tech through PI kind of thing.
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Yeah, no, i've been a field tech, uh, since I got in. Okay. All right. So now the slightly more entertaining questions. Um, what is the best thing that's happened to you that's related to being an archeologist and that can be personal or professional? Yeah, I, I met my wife, uh, on a project, so I, I'm obligated to meeting her.
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uh, was the best things ever happened to me as a CRM archaeologist. Nice. Nice. I, I've mentioned that as my thing too. Um, cause I, I met my wife on my very first project ever. And, uh, and as you know, and I've told other people that, and I know that they're married and I know that they met their spouse through archaeology, but they still don't say that sometimes. So I just let it slide.
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Yeah, you can't be like, Oh, there was like, uh, there's, there's heard a pronghorn that like came through in time. Like it was a really great moment. Yeah. Nice. All right.
Improvements in CRM Archaeology: Wages and Advice
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What is the biggest thing that you would change that would make being a CRM archeologist better? Um, it's going to be a shocker. I'm going to say, uh, higher wages as the standard answer. Um,
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's, I mean, that is, that is the thing. So that's a big one. Yeah. All right. And what is your career goal in CRM? Are you going to be a professor field at any point with your wife? Um, yeah. If anyone wants to make me professor field, I'm not, I'm not currently pursuing professor field. Um,
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No, it's it's a good question. I don't I don't really know because it's hard. It's a hard question for me to answer because I've had multiple career goals. And right now I don't really have like, I don't think I really have like a goal set. I'm just kind of really enjoying my time in CRM and enjoying the work I do and not really kind of looking for the next thing. So I'll
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continue to see where I go with it and, you know, see where it takes me. But, uh, at the moment I wouldn't really say I have like a hard set, you know, goal in mind. Okay. All
Career Advice for Aspiring CRM Professionals
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right. Final question. If you could give an undergrad thinking about a career in CRM one piece of advice, what would it be? You probably hear this a lot too, uh, with other people, but, uh, you get, you have to be, uh, ready for a lot of ups and downs.
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and kind of be willing to maintain your sanity, you know, during those ups and downs you're gonna get. You may get lucky, you may get on some projects that are, you know, really well managed and really have a pretty constant level of work and commitment, but to me that really hasn't been too regular in the work that I've done. So I would say, you know,
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be ready to handle a lot of different things that are thrown at you. You can just say be flexible, but just telling someone that, I don't really think they know what that means without actually doing the work. But yeah, I would just say be willing to deal with a lot of different changes and a lot of different obstacles for not a lot of money.
Closing Remarks and Listener Engagement
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Show notes for this and all episodes can be found on the Archaeology Podcast Network website at www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/. At that page you'll also find a form that you can fill out so you can be interviewed on the show. Interviews 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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The show is produced by Chris Webster and Tristan Boyle and was edited by Chris Webster. 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.