You take jobs so much of the time when you don't need to necessarily work for a living, but it becomes important who you are going to work with.
“Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.”
“Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who's successful.”