Pretty similar story to my own, except that I never bothered with the comp sci degree. The compensation/funding story for archaeology was so bad that at one poi

Pretty similar story to my own, except that I never bothered with the comp sci degree. The compensation/funding story for archaeology was so bad that at one point I was essentially living in my car/tent. I thought hard about how much I wanted to endure next 5-7 years like that while I went through the academic hierarchy to get to a reasonable standard of living and decided tech was a much better alternative. Now I enjoy it from a safe distance as a tourist and vicariously through former colleague's stories.