WORK!

One wants to teach at a university because of financial reward: no competition, little hard work, amazing benefits. The other has important ideas to share and explore.

I’ve tried to appreciate both approaches...the wealth-driven and the idea-driven. But not anymore.

The wealth-driven are winning. And they’re getting surly about it. They have confused the true value of their labor with the amount of money they take home.

I am in an underground coal seam fury about that.

I am frustrated by the lack of sustainable income that has become my professional trademark. I’m poor. Things aren’t working out as I’d hoped.

There is a debilitating paradox at the heart of this. I like to win. I’m very competitive. But the size of the prize is not what motivates me. It’s the fact that to win, one must crack the code, discover the best way. Be better.