Sustenance

It has never really surfaced in my mind, until recently, of how easy it probably is to make a living for oneself. Despite how hard it could be to initiate a compliant system of business, once you sit down in a room and look around at all of the "shit" before you that can be done, that other people don't want to do, and with full utilization of your own skills and abilities, the list grows rapidly. I think the most prominent example I can offer at this point are the various ads for "odd-jobs" you can find on Craigslist. As for me, I currently have a couple computers sitting around in my room waiting to be fixed, since people of course know me as the "ITS dude." If I wanted to, I could  put an ad on Craigslist and charge people about $20 to install operating systems or something of that nature. Really simple things that other people just don't want to do, or don't know enough to do it themselves, that I could just pick up and do for money. It would be wondrous to see that escalate, to have that as my life story. None of this, "Yeah, I got my MFA at age 24, went on to become an executive so-and-so...real successful stuff." Not saying that's bad, or far from my sights. I want an MFA in writing. But instead of adhering to a normal route of self-fulfillment, it'd be wicked to take on the random nature of odd-jobs as my way of living. No more nine-to-five stuff.