Role reversal
Oct 15, 2019
4 minutes
BY PETE CROATTO
I cannot imagine a career but the one I have now. I work on a variety of different projects in a basement office that holds a couch, floor-to-ceiling bookcases, and an easy chair. My commute from the bedroom is 25 seconds if I amble. I don’t have to squeeze myself into a pair of khakis or plead with a supervisor to get an extra 10 minutes for my lunch break.
Why would I want to get a full-time writing job? Why would anyone who has spent more than a year working in slippers?
In that basement office, I’m shut off from the world –
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