Soldier: trained as a youth, studing the use of weapons and armor, learning basic survival techniques, including how to stay alive on the battlefield. Often part of a standing national army or a mercenary company, or perhaps a member of a local militia.
Squalid. You live in a leaky stable, a mud-floored hut just outside town, or a vermin-infested boarding house in the worst part of town. You have shelter from the elements, but you live in a desperate and violent Environment, in places rife with disease.