“You May Just Have to Get a Job…” - Andrew Crofts
“So, young man, what do you plan to do with your life?” It’s one of the most annoying questions that well-meaning people ask of the young as soon as they leave school or university, and at most points before and in between. It may be annoying, but even the most innocent, or rebellious, of young people know that finding the answer is the key to everything. When you get to the other end of your working life and look back, these people are asking, what sort of path do you want to see stretching out behind you? In some ways I was one of the fortunate ones. From the age of sixteen I had an almost clear idea of what I wanted that path to look like, but when I described it out loud it sounded pretty naïve, not to mention vain, so I tended to respond to interrogation by looking down and mumbling something non-committal like everyone else. What I knew I wanted was to be free to follow anything that caught my interest. I wanted to attack life like an overexcited dog hur...