I have always had a difficult relationship with working for money. Adults ask children and young people about it, but when I was young, I could never name what it was I wanted to do for money. I didn’t want to go to an office and sit beneath florescent lights. I didn’t want someone else to tell me how and when to spend my time. The only career I had a thirst for was the career of creation. I wanted to be a writer or an artist or somehow work in a creative field.
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