[ SECRET POST #2888 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2888 ⌋

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Comments

[queerwolf]

Because he had a geeky, science job back when that wasn't cool. And those characters were all about being cool. Didn't matter that he was the only one with a steady, well-paying job.

(Chandler had an office job, but it was never defined and he hated it. And iirc, they always made fun of his job too.)

[(Anonymous)]

He had a paleontology job back when Jurassic Park was relevant. The jokes were bad ones even in their time.

[queerwolf]

Not defending the quality of the jokes, but I guarantee that Chandler, Monica, et al wouldn't think Jurassic Park was "cool."

[esteefee]

This right here. These guys were singles bar "cool." Boring as hell.

[(Anonymous)]

But Jurassic Park didn't make paleontology look cool. It just made, dinosaurs, themselves, look cool. Well, not really cool but scary. It wasn't the same.

It's not like say how Big Hero Six is making kids want to go out and build robots now. No one who watched Jurassic Park wanted to become a paleontologist. In fact, they wanted as far from Jurassic Park as they could get.

[(Anonymous)]

Hey, I wanted to be Alan Grant as a kid. Admittedly, I wouldn't have gone to Jurassic Park, because I didn't want to die, but that shot of the herbivore herd and the awe in their faces at seeing the living things ... I might have, even then.

Given the amount of follow-up, things like Walking With Dinosaurs in '99, I'd say I wasn't that alone in it either.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe where you can't from. Most everyone I knew when that film came out wanted to be a paleontologist.

[(Anonymous)]

That's nice. Too bad they had such little understanding of what being a paleontologist actually meant, i.e. it's not about running around in a fantasy dinosaur park having thrilling adventures.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know, the first 10 minutes weren't a bad representation of palaentology. Technology always making leaps, the excitement of finding a whole(ish) fossil, the constant battle with the weather in the field.

[(Anonymous)]

SA

Not to mention that most of the grant money/work for geologists comes from sources they might personally have issue with.

In the movie, it was a dangerous dinosaur park. Usually, in real life, it's the fossil fuel/nuclear industry. It's no fun being a geologist if the main employers are proposing massive fracking, which you personally believe might be unwise in your area. What are you going to do?

[(Anonymous)]

I remember lots of kids saying they wanted to grow up to be paleontologists after Jurassic Park came out! It was actually what steered me away from paleontology - partly for the shallow reason that I no longer felt like a special snowflake (when everyone else in my class wanted to be veterinarians, I wanted to be a paleontologist!) and partly for the more practical reason that I wondered how easy it would be to get a job if the field became more popular. Fortunately, I was only 14 and hadn't committed to anything yet, and archaeology turned out to be a really fun alternative (and it actually has a private sector, which I don't think paleontology does all that much).

I don't know if the end result was more people actually trying to become paleontologists, but it sure inspired a lot of kids to dream about it.

[(Anonymous)]

What's the private sector side of archaeology, out of curiosity?

[herongale]

Probably finding and selling things to rich collectors, I'm guessing. And/or engaging in private excavations on privately owned land where the findings will all belong to the person who contracts them for the work.

[(Anonymous)]

Probably finding and selling things to rich collectors, I'm guessing.

I can't tell if you're joking or not, but that isn't archaeology and is actually pretty offensive.

[(Anonymous)]

In the US, it's performing legally-mandated survey, assessment, and mitigation (read: excavation when a site can't be avoided) in preparation for construction projects and other work. Any project involving federal lands, federal funding, or federal permits (which covers A LOT - think every highway project ever) is required to do this. Individual states have laws that may require archaeological involvement in an even wider range of projects. It's the same as an environmental impact assessment, only you're looking at cultural resources instead of natural ones. Much of this is done by private firms, although state agencies, public universities, museums and the like do a lot of it, too.

[iceyred]

Where those characters really supposed to be cool? I remember them as being bitchy, self-absorbed, and neurotic. Was the audience really supposed to find them cool?

[queerwolf]

I think *they* thought they were cool, and by extension, we were supposed to think it too.

[(Anonymous)]

I think how cool they were was up to the viewer to decide, but they were definitely supposed to be the New Yorker every-man who, if not cool, wasn't a social loser.

I'm not claiming that's good or bad. That was just the intent of the producers.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think so. I think they were supposed to be very flawed. That was part of the humor.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought the joke was more that Chandler's job was never specified, so the characters not knowing it was lampshading?

[(Anonymous)]

I think it was more that nobody cared what his boring office job was, so they never bothered asking exactly what he does. And he cared so little that he never tried to explain it.