Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.
I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves - people like Tobias Wolff, Anne Beattie, Amy Hempel, Stuart Dybek; a lot of short story writers, for one thing.
Our employers today face numerous challenges and stiff competition from businesses all over the world.

