
When it comes to money I have always thought that it is not that important, because I have seen that people with lots of money are not necessarily happy, which is according to my thinking the one thing that people must pursue in their life. So when I was deciding what degree to choose, I never took into account the amount of money I would earn in the degree I choose. For me, that is just a part of what my degree means, and a little one for that matter. I have never had much money so I’m used to be kind of poor, therefore I don’t think I will need an enormous amount of money every month to live and be happy. And when I chose archaeology I knew that it wouldn’t be easy but it is what I want and what really could make me happy, so if I had to choose between money and archaeology, I would definitely choose archaeology, my passion and one of the loves of my life.
However, I have to eat. So making money by being an anthropologist is one of the things I have to worry about. I believe that if you are good at what you’re doing you should not have problems to earn the money you want. The first step is to finish completely your degree in the time established; then you make you thesis and by the time you make your practice, you should have made several contacts that will help you through the course of your career. Once you finish all that, you must go to another country and have a postítulo there, preferably in Europe. That will give you status and respect between anthropologist and archaeologists.
At the moment I’m not making money, because I am too lazy and not motivated to do something like that at the moment even if it means earning money and being able to buy many things, like clothes and movies! I think that maybe at summer I could work to save money for next year’s archaeology congress and to travel to Valparaiso because someone very important is there…