Don't know who pays the academics you are referring to. Sometimes it is private companies who sponsor an academic's chair at Universities. Sometimes it is the University who pays the academic and they are paid by students through their fees. Academic chairs at Universities are not field archaeologists. Don't confuse the two.
Many jobbing archaeologists are in the private sector paid for by builders and developers for "rescue" archaeology. Most local authorities in Scotland use such private companies or arms length "umbrella" organisations for their archaeology work (almost all of which is "rescue" archaeology).
There are very few publicly funded archaeologists sitting around looking for something to do. Most of the archaeologists I know work voluntarily at weekends. None are parasites and there are certainly no "educated fools" amongst them.
It can be frustrating getting to the bottom of something you have found. All you can do is photograph, draw, record and write up a paper - it is what an archaeologist does! Then get it out there on the net, Youtube or whereever and see what people think.