Hay nako, Saki. Here you go again with your self-destructive misanthropy. Anyway, eto lang ang sa akin ha.
True, literature can't and won't pay the bills forever, but so can't business. Simple logic reveals that only money can, anyway. So a degree in business won't get you that money. Only if you succeed in it can you get enough money that you want. Now, I know you will say that that's the point. Since you claim that "you don't have enough skills or talents in Literature," you won't have money enough to draw out of it. But what about business? I know you are a cynic, a dark one at that, but in the short time that I've gotten close to you, I know for a fact that you don't have enough effrontery (in the vilest sense of the term) to make it in business as well (But of course, I am hoping I am wrong). And maybe as compared to a career in lit, you will have MORE money in business, but so what? More will never make it enough until you say it's enough anyway.
Alam mo Saki, to begin with, you don't have to have skills to have money in Literature. Look at that vampire series (I forgot the tile) that kids nowadays are so into. It's not talent. It's crap, but it's generating money more than any business I personally know of. Even literature is a business, or rather, CAN BE a business. But at least afterwards, it can go back to pure unadulterated love. I'm sorry to seem to bastardize literature, but if it's practicality that you're looking for, then there's practicality that I'm offering you.
But maybe you can benefit from that mba that your father is shoving up to your face, after all. Maybe once you dream your words, and finally find the time and memory to write your literature, then wield your mba and influences to sell it properly. I suggest you don't completely disregard that which keeps on floating up to your sub/conscious, though, because when you sleep someday and find yourself finally dreamless, maybe then you would realize that money can no longer buy your words back and hate yourself again.
There's a vicious cycle that you might want to avoid now.
There is a fine line between "enough" and "surplus," and I'm not making "enough" to just plain survive as it is. Surplus would be very much welcome, but for now, I just need enough.
True, I may not have the effrontery (or the "killer instinct" as my father puts it), but I have to go with the path of least resistance. Literature is just as ruthless as business (more, on many levels), but business yields more, with less effort.
But I'm not giving up Literature altogether, I'm just giving it up as a way of income. I have no intention of losing my words, or my love for Literature. I continue to write, I continue to dream. But dreams are dreams, and bills are bills. Some people can make a living out of writing, I just realized that I'm not one of them, that's all.
True, literature can't and won't pay the bills forever, but so can't business. Simple logic reveals that only money can, anyway. So a degree in business won't get you that money. Only if you succeed in it can you get enough money that you want. Now, I know you will say that that's the point. Since you claim that "you don't have enough skills or talents in Literature," you won't have money enough to draw out of it. But what about business? I know you are a cynic, a dark one at that, but in the short time that I've gotten close to you, I know for a fact that you don't have enough effrontery (in the vilest sense of the term) to make it in business as well (But of course, I am hoping I am wrong). And maybe as compared to a career in lit, you will have MORE money in business, but so what? More will never make it enough until you say it's enough anyway.
Alam mo Saki, to begin with, you don't have to have skills to have money in Literature. Look at that vampire series (I forgot the tile) that kids nowadays are so into. It's not talent. It's crap, but it's generating money more than any business I personally know of. Even literature is a business, or rather, CAN BE a business. But at least afterwards, it can go back to pure unadulterated love. I'm sorry to seem to bastardize literature, but if it's practicality that you're looking for, then there's practicality that I'm offering you.
But maybe you can benefit from that mba that your father is shoving up to your face, after all. Maybe once you dream your words, and finally find the time and memory to write your literature, then wield your mba and influences to sell it properly. I suggest you don't completely disregard that which keeps on floating up to your sub/conscious, though, because when you sleep someday and find yourself finally dreamless, maybe then you would realize that money can no longer buy your words back and hate yourself again.
There's a vicious cycle that you might want to avoid now.
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True, I may not have the effrontery (or the "killer instinct" as my father puts it), but I have to go with the path of least resistance. Literature is just as ruthless as business (more, on many levels), but business yields more, with less effort.
But I'm not giving up Literature altogether, I'm just giving it up as a way of income. I have no intention of losing my words, or my love for Literature. I continue to write, I continue to dream. But dreams are dreams, and bills are bills. Some people can make a living out of writing, I just realized that I'm not one of them, that's all.
And thanks.
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