{"id":41383,"date":"2020-01-24T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T06:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=41383"},"modified":"2020-01-23T10:04:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T15:04:26","slug":"qotd-writing-as-a-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/01\/24\/qotd-writing-as-a-career\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Writing as a career"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Leftist writers raised in affluent circumstances &mdash; as I think even they would admit, in honest moments &mdash; suffer from heroic self-image as an occupational disease. And perhaps this is equally true of the conservatives as well. But when you come from the actual working class &mdash; when your father is someone who actually helps <em>assemble<\/em> buildings, as opposed to designing them &mdash; you can never, as a professional intellectual, shake the suspicion that you are going to <em>get caught<\/em> and sent back to [earn] a proper living. I think it&#8217;s part of why relatively minor career crises have such a shattering effect on my nerves; as a columnist I&#8217;ve turned out to be much more of a cowardly beggar for editorial reassurance than I ever thought I&#8217;d be. It&#8217;s because I see my career subconsciously, and always will, as the product of some inchoate power&#8217;s inexplicable carelessness.<\/p>\n<p>Colby Cosh <a href=\"http:\/\/colbycosh.com\/#wlhi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Who let <u>him<\/u> in?&#8221;, <em>ColbyCosh.com<\/em><\/a>, 2005-01-19.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leftist writers raised in affluent circumstances &mdash; as I think even they would admit, in honest moments &mdash; suffer from heroic self-image as an occupational disease. And perhaps this is equally true of the conservatives as well. But when you come from the actual working class &mdash; when your father is someone who actually helps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,41],"tags":[95,139,907,134],"class_list":["post-41383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-quotations","tag-jobs","tag-psychology","tag-snobbery","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aLt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41383"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54495,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41383\/revisions\/54495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}