Read it and weep. James Somers is a computer programmer who gets unsolicited $120,000 job offers, but what he really wants to be is a writer. Trouble is, no one seems to be willing to pay that kind of money for writing, Somers laments in an Aeon post questioning the value of his work: "Despite my esteem for the high challenge of writing, for the reach of the writerly life, it’s not something anyone actually wants me to do. The American mind has made that very clear."
