Aside from academia, what daytime jobs do authors usually have or used to have?
>>23326495only rich people wroteyou had to be born into wealth to have the wherewithal to fiddle with words while others toiled to earn their daily bread
>>23326495jannies
TRANSLATOR, COPYWRITER.
>>23326502BEING MIDDLE CLASS (BOURGEOISE) SUFFICES.
short-order fry cooks
>>23326495homeless
Journalism
>>23326495none. they had a rich aristocrat with literary interests bankrolling them.
>>23326495Phillip Larkin worked in a university library for like 30 years, which is basically working in academia without all the utter pathetic bullshit that comes with actually working in academia
>>23327219University libraries are rough, I've worked in a few. It has its perks but be prepared to have the typical office job life, with ten weirdly bitchy woman coworkers and three woman bosses, and a handful of gelded dork males who somehow don't seem to mind it, which just leaves you feeling more isolated.
>>23327219>>23327226>any library job>need masters degree in "library science"
