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>Everybody want to be a bodybuilder but nobody want to lift no heavy ass weight

- Ronnie Coleman

Everybody wants a high or cool status job, but few truly want to suffer what it takes to get that job, and in the case of writing, as with many things, there's too much luck involved, too strong a power law.

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Even people who get the jobs suffer from them. I've met a lot of journalists and I live in fantasy land compared to them. In exchange for a small amount of meaning, they take on a lot of extra suffering.

Ronnie Coleman also can't walk anymore on his own because of those heavy weights.

That could certainly apply in this context if talking 20 years down the line.

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