I used to dig around the sandbox and pull out pieces of coal and show them to my mother, and she used to say that's how I must have known I was going to be a geologist.
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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.
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