At a bit of an impasse. After giving the art everything I had through conservatory and then the decade afterwards, and being completely sidelined for a few years, I earned good grades at a top-tier law school while taking as many doctrinal courses as they would allow, and then when nothing came of that, I wrote a doctoral dissertation while grading thousands of undergraduate papers. Frankly, I'm not certain which button to push now. And over the last decade, I've had to go to ground more often than a lightning storm in the Midwest.
The informal aspects of career life in these United States might stand some scrutiny. Prosperity from the mechanisms of earlier generations is no justification for general dishonesty. There are some rather bad things going on, and some honest folks are being put in real peril.
Harumph.