I have no doubt regarding the government influence on everything. Have looked at a bunch of it and seen that exactly.
I would have traveled if required to weld. What I found though was a closed shop in that field here. And yes, I did go round to nearly everywhere that hung out welders wanted signs. It was not that I was not looking, or not attempting to ply the craft. What it was was seeing a locked up closed shop mentality overall & not seeing anywhere else with any better opportunities.
Well the writing for me is alright to a point. Then, I run down and out of steam. There's a difference in forging an idea than in forging a blade from cold roll steel. And that difference in the process of the work gets confusing, gets to be difficult to face. You need to define a different world. Orson Scott Card once explained that if your fictional world had apple pies, you had to explore how apples came to exist in that world. You need the logic being flawless right down to the first imaginings of the fictional universe to create an apple seed.
Granted I take your point too. There are other ways to use writing to put bread on a table. My mind gets lost though and for that I have no valid excuse. Nor do I intend to present one. It all goes to a point that, I get lost in what I'm doing, or get sidetracked with other aspects of life & focus goes awry. Yep, I lack the discipline in short order. And as a keen hillbilly saying goes, "can't get there from here". I do need to do better with it and know it.
