In defence of day jobs

When T.S.Eliot penned The Waste Land, he was also dutifully employed as a clerk in a London bank. Image: Wikipedia

Ai Weiwei frequently makes the list of the world’s most successful living artists but his resume includes work as a carpenter, house painter and even a professional blackjack player. The great American painter Jackson Pollock worked as a babysitter for the children of  a now much lesser known artist, Thomas Hart Benton. Keith Haring was a busboy before he became an iconic artist and activist. Poet T.S. Eliot worked in a bank.