Well, I am a textile artist, a good but unemployed one. My life is very difficult, although I try to see it as an adventure of some sort. That makes me better. And more true.
Many, many years ago I travelled Asia and I learned a lot about the culture and handicrafts there. But... nothing tangible came out of that, only problems with gurus back then and later.
Once I was a German Lit and Lang prof, but here in Canada they had no use for that. They want to turn me into something else, well, it's Canadada, as someone I once thought I know, said.