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> However, given the times we're currently
> living in, a writer or would-be writer looking for opportunities to grow
> or make a career shift may have an easier time obtaining education or
> formal training, both of which can be bought and paid for, than finding
> an employer willing to hire and underwrite either education or training
> of any sort. Sometimes your options are limited.
Everything you say is true, but I would urge anyone who can possibly manage it
to take advantage of unemployment to expand their education.
I quoted this some years ago on the list, but it's worth repeating:
"The best thing for being sad . . . is to learn something. That's the only thing
that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie
awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only
love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your
honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it
then -- to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only
thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by,
never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only
thing for you."
- T. H. White, "The Once and Future King"
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