Nice and overcast this morning - so it has cooled off a bit.
TOD - hmmmm.... only really had one "civilian" job in my life - 5 months in the accounting department of Gulf Oil Company in Century City, CA when I was 19. That sort of iced my cake - never had another regular job. It got so bad that I resisted going to sleep at night, cuz it meant that when I woke up I would have to go there. Just hammer away at an adding machine for 8 hours a day, counting minutes to coffee breaks, and treasuring the half hour of NOT IN THE OFFICE for lunch... I realized that if I knew I would have to do work like that, 40 hours a week, for twenty or thirty years, I would cheerfully kill myself.
There is no poverty or lack or rejection or humiliation that makes Showbiz Not Worth It; and no steady paycheck or benefits or "normal life" that makes any other kind of work remotely attractive.