Hello ducksoup, I may be a lurker but had to login 'cause I never thought that I would find a fellow commercial archaeologist in here, or indeed any other game forum 

As for me, grew up in retail (Italian family business, you're expected  to help whilst not a school or in between works) and was trained and worked in the film industry back home and when I reached 30 I decided to follow my lifetime dream and relocated to London where I got a degree in medieval archaeology and been working in the industry for the last 16 years. Unfortunately, because I left it that late I had only 6 years of true fun in the mud (back could not take it anymore) and now I am office based