[CoastalCoder]

> Any work that puts food on the table is “honest” work.

Can you clarify how you mean that?

There's an extreme interpretation that I'm guessing you don't mean.

[ismailmaj]

Probably refers to jobs that are unrelated to his interest like cashier, just to get by for now.

[reactordev]

This. Earning a living by not breaking the law.

[antinomicus]

He’s just saying you gotta do what you gotta do. I couldn’t find work after getting laid off from meta platform engineering so I started clandestinely mass producing pharmaceutical grade methamphetamine for distribution across dozens of citizens across the American southwest. In my spare time, while looking for help desk positions.

[grugagag]

You’re getting overboard here with your math lab, competition is more fierce and gangs could do something very unpleasant to you.