Being a professional and having a decent job is a cause, not a course, that's why many people don;t live in such a luxury. Writing literature is not considered a decent career, if I have choice, I won't choose it. Talking about many years of hard work without even a little reward. It is very hard and disadvantageous for a normal person to consider it a decent career, comparing to people taking advantage of the society even since they are born and have an advantageous name or choose a career path that is advantageous for their being. They know the cause, they are smart. I lost a decent job once and did not find any substitue that as equally highly paid and decent. I chose to write, not because it is a career path that will make you famous or something, rarely Chinese writers are famous here in North America, and they don't sell too many books, I chose that because I have to, I have to do something to fullfill myself. And being a Chinese scholar, it is not a cause, it is many years of taking hard courses and work hard. It is decent, but tragedy if it can not compare to many other career paths which I wrongly fullfilled in. It is obvious not a cause that nobody on this planet bother to offer you higher or treat you as a higher being. But the fact is you are respected as a scholar, and unnamely a higher being either in moral or knowledge. I liked it very much, I liked being respected and name is not important unless you are bound to make yourself very famous. But for a Chinese scholar which may happen in China, not abroad. All I want to say is, so far I like my career as being a writer, professionaly or not. And I like the way I am being treated as it is. Past experience might be wrong, and I have to take it, either the past or present, or even future. |