If you want a job writing English textbooks, I'm pretty sure you just send your resume in to a large resume company. If you have the right qualifications, and y

If you want a job writing English textbooks, I'm pretty sure you just send your resume in to a large resume company. If you have the right qualifications, and you pass an interview, you can start working for peanuts fleshing out a checklist of points into a nice gooey explanation. You have a nice 9-5 job+, with no real creativity required (or even desired). I think getting a job as a song-writer is a bit different. I guess there's a continuum between a singer-songwriter like Bob Dylan, and a guy who re-arranges the synthetic drum-beat for "Girl from Ipanema, retirement home lobby edition", but there should be a line somewhere. If a song writer isn't a creative professional, who is? + actually, a lot of text-book writers are freelancers, but the creativity they are expected to show is said to be quite low: http://www.edutopia.org/muddle-machine http://www.edutopia.org/muddle-machine