My future job

The truth is that I have thought about this for a long time, but I still do not have it 100% clear. I feel that I would rather work in the field than be teaching, or locked in an office; I would like to find many artifacts, study the sites, their history, work with more people who have other specialties than mine to complement our work, etc.

I feel that traveling would be necessary if I want to achieve the objectives that I have, either finding and/or studying things around the country, or outside of it; as I said in a blog before, the main country I would like to travel to, obviously if I was given the opportunity, would undoubtedly be Egypt, in order to study about its culture, heritage, history, beliefs and more. Speaking of salary, the truth is that this would not affect much, but still I would like to work in something that pays well so I do not have worries and stay calm.

So far I am studying Anthropology at the University of Chile, but as of next semester I would be taking elective subjects that as "the initiation" to the specialization of Archeology, which is the specialty that most attracts my attention within the career; thus, once I finish these subjects in the next semester, I would be "officially" studying to specialize in Archeology.

What's like to study anthropology?

I study anthropology at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Chile. I chose this career because it is the only one with which I can study archeology, which is the one that has caught my attention since I was younger, like in the way of studying the culture of different societies, the materiality they used, the way of understanding about how they behaved, how they lived together, and more.

Studying this career in years of pandemic I find that it has not been very nice, because being only online, everything that could be face-to-face is lost, like the way of teaching and learning the subjects, meeting my classmates, knowing the faculty of the university, meet my professors, live in Santiago, etc .; adding also the fact that being purely online, people's headaches increase when they spend so much time on the computer watching classes or doing work. Despite knowing certain classmates of my career with whom I do my work and resolve certain doubts, I feel that it is not the same as if I had met them in person, because perhaps the relationships would be totally different.

I just hope that the pandemic ends soon and we can go back to face-to-face classes.

Let's talk about the pandemic

The existence of this pandemic was unexpected for many people who did not give it the right importance at the time, making it exist until today.

Undoubtedly, its emergence has brought many consequences, such as an increase in the number of people with anxiety, endless lines in supermarkets and pharmacies (something that can really affect someone who need certain things urgently), the decrease in activities that someone can do to be distracted, and so many more.

It has also brought many changes in our lives, such as having face-to-face classes to having purely online classes, being able to be close to people to maintain a meter of distance with them, or to spend outside the house doing different things to be all the time in it.

I think that people just for a while longer will continue to wear masks or maintain social distance, because once this pandemic "goes out of style" or diminishes its importance around the world, people will no longer worry about these things and will return to their previous life, without fully protecting themselves against other viruses that could arise.