If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.
I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible boss.
Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.

