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I would have been a geologist.

I am a geologist.

I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist.

I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.

My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics.

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a palaeontologist. I wanted to dig up dinosaurs.

I originally worked as an archaeologist in North Carolina, and when bones were found police would take them out to the bones lady at the university, and that was me.

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I actually wrote to a number of archeology departments and offered up my services.