> I'd think about that next time I judged someone who decided not to follow the crowd towards a lucrative or middle-class values type of job. Kind of ironical

> I'd think about that next time I judged someone who decided not to follow the crowd towards a lucrative or middle-class values type of job. Kind of ironical that you are inherently judging those who hold lucrative jobs as crowd followers or inherently having "middle-class values". One could argue that following the crowd can also be defined as being a poorly paid barista who is doing "art" on the side. There is nothing inherently different from say programming as a day job or working as a barista as a day job and spending your nights doing something creative. Not all who go into this shit are following the crowd or have "middle class" values.