: About Me

I write, a lot as it turns out, for no other reason than I seem to have plenty to say. Whether or not I'm qualified to call myself a writer is anybody's guess, but word for word, I suppose it could be true.

I'm not really all that educated, ged as a result of finding highschool tedius. I took some college courses good for 21 credit hours that I'll likley never add to. I liked the college experience. I had heard that college prepares people for the real world, but as an older student, it was apparent that the real world was a means of preparation for the eventuality of college. Financial reasons, time constraints, and feeling as though I learned what i was there to learn led me back into the blue collar world, reluctantly to some extent, though I hear a hard days work is good for you once in awhile.

I'd like to get paid to write, but that might not ever happen. In a perfect world I'd get paid to think, if I got paid by the thought I'd be rich. If I were reduced to being paid only for productive thought, I wouldn't be rich, but I wouldn't be broke either. I have a lot of opinions about a lot of things, and hopefully enough common sense to make sense out of the things I choose to write about. Ultimately it appears as though the need to speak freely far outweights any lack of monetary justification for taking the time to do so, that being said, I don't need to be agreed with, accepted, or even liked. I can be ignored, scrutinized, debated, and argued against, but I will not be silenced.

My passion is ...

truth

I know too much about ...

nothing

My parents always told me ...

go away

My childhood ambition ...

does chasing girls count as an ambition?

My favorite memory ...

see the previous answer

Why I write ...

because

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

is this a trick question?

My first job ...

work

My best moment ...

not working

My inspiration ...

God

Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: What would you do for money

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I suppose the best I can say is that what I would do for money now is the end result of what I have done for money in the past. There was no criteria, it didn't have to be moral or legal, it just needed to be profitable. I'm a different person than the me of old, the mixture of youth and poverty, determination and stubbornness, enterprise and star filled eyes, growing up poor was enough for me, I had no desire to remain that way. As time has passed and opportunities have come and gone, I have had little choice but to acknowledge that I had more money as a teenager than I ever have as an ad...

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