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• Sunday, June 28, 2009 08:37 PM

  You picked the wrong wall.

  This metaphor was told by Louise Hay; a man spent his entire life climbing a ladder to reach Success. When he reached the top of the ladder, he realized he had the ladder leaned against the wrong wall.

  That's what the letter writer did. He didn't pay attention to the obvious signs, and so I must print it in bold type to get through to the idiots out there. Writing is no longer a paid profession.

  I wrote this. You think I got paid for it? Cary Tennis wrote this article. Do you think he got paid for it? Do you think any of these letter writers get payed ANY FREAKING THING????

  Here's some advice to you, young college graduate: Learn how to flip burgers. Get a business degree: since all business management is entirely fictional, doing nothing real and tossing around meaningless words, this is a perfect field for a creative writer. Watch Breaking Bad and pick up tips for making crystal meth and selling it to school children, which is a more honest living than working for the Defense Department or Rush Limbaugh.

  There is nothing wrong with being a plumber; it's messy and is not considered prestigious by Joan Walsh - until she needs the leak in her sink stopped. And she'll pay you - which is more than what she does for any writer.

  I'm sorry you wasted your college money and your time. Take some comfort that there are a lot of other people who set their ladders against the wrong wall.

  —tomreedtoon Read tomreedtoon's other letters
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