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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a teacher, and when I was younger, I used to work at a language center that taught ESL to foreign students and adults.  The pay was something like $18 an hour, and there were people working there on that full time, year round: they also got health insurance, but the pay was poverty level.  One of the other teachers at the center was a published novelist who worked there just for the health insurance.  He eventually published a best seller that received acclaim, and ended up being hired by a university after that.  But my point is, he was a struggling artist/writer, and I'm sure his parents thought his lowly job was a disappointment.

Maybe she'll make it with her music?  And if not, she can move on to something else.  She'll always look back to this time when she was young and full of hope and striving to achieve her dream.  [/quote]

*To add to my post above, I only worked at the summer during my summer vacations, and the pay was considerably less than what I made with my teacher job, which was also not much.  So the writer I described was truly choosing poverty in working there full time.  But he made it...[/quote]

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