[niuzeta]

I am young, just out of university, had a passion for writing, did a major-cs-minor-literature.

Now I do 9 to 5, and write after work. Life is good for me and I am happy because I love my work and after-work.

The purist obsession that you need to be 100% devoted to something is beyond me, but like I said, I am happy and know that I am happy because I knew this would make me happy.

The OP has a different opinion of happiness, and it's his happiness, and I don't find it offensive.

[frenchy]

It's not so much his opinion of happiness, but his looking-down on other opinions of happiness.

[niuzeta]

exactly. that's why I'm rather unsettled by the article. However, I've seen a little too many of young-and-ambitious kinds that I've gotten used to them by now. Whether that's a good thing or bad is not for me, though.