Necessity

When in a former life I was a rarely employed actor in New York, making talent agents' lives miserable by incessantly hectoring them to come see an Equity Showcase I happened to be doing, I (barely!) made ends meet by tending bar at a Chinese restaurant in midtown.
A very wise customer named Whit McDowell (funny that I remember his name) said to me when I complained about the truly dreadful part of show business trying to pursue the "business" side of the endeavor, "Jan, whatever job you do, there are going to be parts of it you hate, and you have to do those as well."
This morning I watched local TV looking for opportunities to market my wares. While it wasn't as painful as I anticipated, I would SO much have preferred working on my next novel or the screenplay I'm writing (or trying to) with a director friend of mine.
Well, Whit McDowell, you were absolutely right. And I've just started my research. :-(