A frequently asked question in the mail.
Dear Dickon,
Why don’t you just get a job?
Answer: Because I’ve got too much else to do.
Answer: Because I’m too busy to get a job.
Answer: Being unemployed is a full-time job in itself, involving skills and time in order to survive. So I do have a job. It’s just atrociously paid.
Answer: Because I’ve never lasted in the many wage-slave type jobs I’ve had in the past. It’s only a matter of time before I’m dismissed, or have to leave to avoid collapsing in tears on a daily basis.
Answer: I AM trying to find something, it just has to be something I can do well, as opposed to pretend to do well.
Answer: I’m too far gone.
Answer: This IS my job. It’s a kind of busking with text. I just haven’t managed to earn money from it. Yet.
Answer: Don’t you know who I AM?
Having said all that, of course, I do engage in a small amount of perfectly normal things for the Green Party: envelope stuffing, posting leaflets through hundreds of letterboxes, helping out here and there. It’s just that that’s all voluntary work.
