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I love this response. The beauty of claiming one’s art with a confident but plain “I” and then following with a clear and concise answer.

How do you view your day job? As a necessary evil to pay the bills? As a good “real world” counterweight to the arts? I ask in good faith and genuine curiosity as I am likewise drawn to the arts but have over the years come to appreciate how my tech career keeps my feet planted on the ground.

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I find myself grateful I can support my family financially, as it's statistically unlikely my art can ever permit me to quit my day job.

Not to imply that it's in any way a quality peculiar to those who write poetry in their free time (I know it isn't), but my need for creative expression regularly seeps into the coding standards to which I hold myself, insofar as I demand a certain beauty-- such as such a thing is ever even possible-- out of the libraries I write.

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