thank you
I've never really expected
to find myself giving advice to people graduating
from an establishment of higher education.
I've never graduated from any such establishment.
I've not even started at one. I escaped from school as soon
as I could, when the prospect of four more years of enforced
learning before I'd become the writer I wanted to be
seems stifling. I got out into the world, I wrote
till I became a better writer the more I wrote, and I wrote some more,
and nobody ever seemed to mind that I was making it all up as I went along,
they just read what I wrote and they paid me for it, or they didn't,
and often they commissioned me to write something else for them.
Which has left me with a healthy respect and fondness
for higher education that those of my friends and family,
who attended Universities, were cured of long ago.
Looking back, I've had a remarkable ride.
I'm not sure I can call it a career, because a career implies
that I had some kind of career plan,
and I never did. The nearest thing I had was a list I made when I was 15