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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

Thinking about Bill Moyers led to Joseph Campbell, which led to this:

"I think the person who takes a job in order to live -- that is to say, for 
the money -- has turned himself into a slave. Work begins when you don't 
like what you're doing. There's a wise saying: make your hobby your source 
of income. Then there's no such thing as work, and there's no such thing as 
getting tired. That's been my own experience. I did just what I wanted to 
do. It takes courage at first, because who the hell wants you to do just 
what you want to do; they've all got a lot of plans for you. But you can 
make it happen. I think it's very important for a young person to have the 
courage to do what seems to him significant in his life, and not just take 
a job in order to make money. But this takes a bit of prudence and very 
careful planning, and may delay financial achievement and comfortable 
living. But the ultimate result will be very much to his pleasure."
--Joseph Campbell