astah's status on Friday, 07-Dec-12 12:36:50 UTC
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@pony often the 'best' universities don't produce the top people in the field.... it's more a means of having a 100% certainty of getting a job. My father's met plenty of Harvard grad lawyers who were mediocre at best (if not morons) and for writing there are plenty of people who come out of Iowa's program with nothing to show for it academically or creatively. Whenever I get discouraged, I try to remember things like the fact that W.C. Williams was a pediatrician, Wallace Stevens sold insurance door to door, and Philip Larkin was a librarian. My old mentore himself has worked as a high school teacher, a chef, and a tattoo artists. Some of these feilds lend themselves to a necessity to find additional income...
