note: not a vent post- just something i was thinking about the other day. I'm pretty happy with how I'm doing in life :)
i love teaching and have had several tutor jobs, but teachers are treated like absolute dog water in my country (and in most other countries, i assume) with horrible pay. i basically have to do CS to make enough money to support some family members later on in life. it's not even that I'd want some incredible pay for being a teacher, I'd just need a guarantee my family would be taken care of.
post how your career would be different under socialism.
I loved drawing and painting, alot, when I was young. Filling sketchbooks with all sorts of things and just practicing for hours every day. Closet full of filled sketchbooks I ended up just throwing away down the road. Then I got into music and even performed in bars and festivals and such with different bands. But I was never good enough on my own to "make money". I probably would have gone to some art school of some kind to gain some practical skills I couldn't devise on my own and ended up doing covers for sci fi and fantasy or something.