Posted by Roger Boylan on Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Lucky bugger. And he explains why.
"With each
job description I read, I felt a tightening of what I must call my soul. I
found myself growing false to myself, acting to myself, convincing myself of my
rightness for whatever was being described. And this is where I suppose life
ends for most people, who stiffen in the attitudes they adopt to make
themselves suitable for the jobs and lives others have laid out for them."
True. And then there are the rest of us day-jobbing journeyman writers. Cheers, Sir Vidiadhar.