Parents: you need to read lots of book in your free time to get smart and go to collage.
~~~ Many years later ~~~
Me: I would like to attend university next year. I will pursue an education in literature to achieve my goal of becoming a published author.
Parents: you will not! There is no success as an author, I will not support you going to to school for such a waste.
You really don't need a degree in literature to become a published author. That's like getting a degree in media studies so you can become a youtuber. Yeah, you could do it, and it may give you some advantages, but like... You're already literate, right? Besides that, taking a class or two on literature or creative writing would give you a lot of the skills you need to get you on your way, which you can easily do while pursuing another degree that ensures greater monetary security or (less easily) at a community college while also working.
I'm not saying that the system that begets this thinking is good, but it is the one we live under.
and go to collage.
This is who I want telling me reading is bad
It's an extremely large collage, they have to charge admission to afford the maintenance on it.
English degrees are great if you plan to go into law.
To earn money while hoping you make it as an author because otherwise you'll either starve or become an office clerk.
My favorite thing I learned while researching for writing was that hunter-gatherers worked less hours than the modern human 🙃
iirc the article stated 'work' as when they hunted, not for stuff like cooking and crafting
I read and write, so I imagine I look like the tip picture, but really I look like the bottom.
I don't think being on Lemmy counts as reading and writing. hehe
I'm Herr thinking all writers are readers and the result is Rents in frame two :)
I agree with the comedy image.
The only thing worse than the squalor of addiction is the unearned confidence of people with glasses.
Dammit.
Back to contacts I guess.
My to-read list proves that people who read are addicts too
Yeah but you still afford clothes while whittling down that list 😜
Ewan McGregor?
So fucking true! Meaning we are poor and always a little crazy.
I am a German born American who worked for the post office. Still fighting my alcoholic demons but I’ll have something to write about when I’m done.
if I can't read I won't have to learn about the horrors of the world
out of sight, out of mind 😊🙈
Harry Haller's Records: For Madmen Only
I LOL'ed at the writer Pic, not sure why, but LOL
Probably because that's the punchline of the joke. That was the designer's intent, so, good job!
