Ask Amelia Dall what advice she’d give to younger people, and she boils it all down to one word.
“Perseverance is key,” she says. “I repeat this in every interview, in every conversation I have with someone when discussing my career and advice for the future generations: Keep the word ‘perseverance’ in your head, always.”
She ought to know. The 31-year-old is an archaeologist for the Bureau of Land Management — not an easy job to attain, since most positions in archaeology are temporary or contracted. And she happens to be deaf.