Yo! I'm 28 and left Uni what feels ages ago ^^
I'm originally from France, moved to London after my Master's degree made me sick of the Academy, then moved to Scotland. People here are lovely, and the weather not as bad as I thought it'd be :B
I have basically zero training of any kind in art or storytelling. I studied history of art at Uni, which was great but didn't lead to anything - went there to please my parents more than anything, as I've always wanted to be a working artist. Unfortunately I always had to work on the side to get by since I'm 15 and had a lot of day-jobs, from cleaning, to retail, pub work, life-modelling, giving French lessons, translating stuff - I work as a video game localisation tester at the moment, which is probably the best job I managed to get so far, but it's eating soooo much of my time. I work hard on improving my art and developping my comics on evening and weekends (I'm a one-person team and do everything, writing, drawing and colouring, learning on the spot), I hope it'll pay off sometimes!
It's nice to read all of your stories guys, and to see that we're all going through as best as we can ^^