FWIW, a friend of mine is an author with 20 published books to his name, one became a Hollywood theatrical release, and he’s living on close to nothing. Even successful authors, musicians, artists often make something near or barely better than minimum wage when you figure in their time and materials; $100K for a book seems awesome until you consider it may have taken four years to write. When I was busy being a starving artist chump back in the day I calculated my hourly wages after all expenses at the end of the business run at about 15¢/hour. :P

Probably damning to say it but I became a Perl hacker because I was tired of being straight-up poor and it felt more like creative writing to me than real work.

In reply to Re^3: Is Perl on the Raspberry Pi worth it? by Your Mother
in thread Is Perl on the Raspberry Pi worth it? by stevieb

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