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17293347 No.17293347 [Reply] [Original]

Is it possible to take literature as a job without dying from starvation?

>> No.17293355

"Take literature as a job" doesn't even make sense. What do you want to say?

>> No.17293377

>>17293355
Work doing something related with literature.

>> No.17293416

how is 'literature' a job unless youre a neet?

>> No.17293442

No

>> No.17293469

>>17293416
Write books, write some articles for a journalistic site/magazine, be a teacher, work with translations,etc?

>> No.17293527

>>17293469
>Write books
Not a job unless you're the top 1% of authors

>Write some articles
Not a job unless you're working for a top newspaper/journal

>Be a teacher
This is a job and probably your career path if you have to ask us

>Work with translations
Not a job unless you have complete mastery of the language and can work well in person.

>> No.17293597

>>17293469
Writing for a newspaper is the lowest of the low. Those people don't know how to write. They have such an infantile grasp of the English language and their only job is to pollute the rivers of meaning.

>> No.17293638

>>17293597
If I'm not mistaken, G. K. Chesterton wrote a lot for newspaper

>> No.17293715

No. Work on making money. Best artists are rich people who don't have to think about the wagie life and can do whatever they want like read/write books all day or make music non-stop.

>> No.17293729

>>17293638
This might shock you to hear, but the world has changed in the last 100 years.

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>>17293527
>>Work with translations
>Not a job unless you have complete mastery of the language and can work well in person.
Not a job unless you can do the job well.

>> No.17293808

>>17293347
learn to work a full time job and write in your spare time RETARD

wake up, get your brain going write. devote your peak awareness hours to writing and not WAGESLAVING

>> No.17293894

>>17293808
How? Work 8 hours a day, take care of your children, have a healthy life with your wife and parents,etc; How can I do all that and still with will to write/read?

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Rich neet with no skills or care about anything really. Nothing feels worth pursuing because I don't know if it's "the thing" I want to be doing. I've tried writing, making music, reading philosophy. All feels like as much of a waste of time as when I binge anime or play video games because I have no strong singular vision for what I want out of my life.

>> No.17295352

>>17293347
Have you noticed how most authors tend to be independently wealthy these days? It's strictly a job for the privileged few. Which is why literature is so fucking moribund now.

>> No.17295365

>>17293894
that is reason why artists don't marry and move away from their families.

>> No.17295394

>>17295352
Au contraire mon frere.
"Most authors" seem to be middle class drifters bouncing around from academic post to post, being writers-in-residence as a main gig and writing on the side. The ones who are "independently wealthy" most likely have day jobs related to editing/publishing or administration, or they married into upper middle class.