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If pandering to the right audience, befriending the right people, publicly performing a "here is what must be said now" show on Twitter, etc. is some kind of performance-enhancing drug in the writing game, enabling me to take my earnings into the "high 50s," I'll stay natty
At this point I make a very good living in the private sector, and being able to say "eff this" to doubling down on a lottery ticket career as a creative or thinker or whatever we were all raised by liberal arts professors to become is so liberating
These kind of discussions are great for shaving down the follower count, getting rid of the dreamers who believe salon culture is a thing and that the Algonquin Round Table had it all that much better than George Babbitt
I still think I might want to try writing someday but the fact that I absolutely don't *have* to--in fact it would be a very foolish career step--helps a lot, I think
I can pay all my non-mortgage expenses off the writing. Food, fun, etc. I honestly like that it helps that way. And my wife and I can apply our salaries toward saving for the final days of this hellworld, when that currency will have no value
Yes, famous last words. I like to think of each article as my "last words" to the "general public" before I hit the "breadline."
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