Both professions carry a similar logical bent. I can see how you might find pleasure in one if you enjoyed the other.
So not too terribly distant from your own time. It can be a bit jarring. My first forays into time travel were only a matter of decades, but then I was unceremoniously dumped 3,000 years into my future. Talk about a culture shock. The strangest thing here is not likely to be the temporal difference, but rather the kinds of people you'll meet.