I’m almost disappointed by holidays since I can’t work. If you can pull that off, you got something. I think the key to life is being excited about Monday morning every week. I’m not any happier now than I was then.” Black contends that happiness is derived from enjoying your career. He said, “Even though I have stupid success, no. There were attorneys who wanted to be artists or chefs.ĭuring an interview with the comic Lewis Black, I asked him if he was any happier now than when he was a struggling playwright a generation ago. The funny thing is that so many attorneys I knew had an out. I discovered that when making money is your primary goal, well, it’s probably the wrong reason to have that job. I did well in school, and I became a litigator. I wanted a job in which I could make a lot of money.
When I was growing up, our family didn’t have much money. I had read the “Peanuts” 25th anniversary book (“Peanuts Jubilee”), which I’m looking at right now, and so I said, “A syndicated cartoonist.” I knew what I wanted to do.īut you didn’t start out as a cartoonist. I was asked that question by a teacher when I was in the fifth grade. What did you want to do when you grew up? Pastis, who will appear Thursday for a virtual Northwest Passages Book Club forum, discusses why he decided to leave litigation behind for a career in the arts, what cartoonist had a profound impact on his life and what recurring nightmare still plagues him. Comic Jeff Foxworthy worked in computer maintenance at IBM. Boston guitarist Tom Scholz was a product design engineer for Polaroid.
But the author of the “Timmy Failure” children’s chapter book series isn’t the only entertainer to choose art over commerce.Īrtist Paul Gauguin was a stockbroker. Before becoming a cartoonist, the creator of the comic strip “Pearls Before Swine” was an attorney. Stephan Pastis, 52, can relate to the lyrics from the epic Led Zeppelin classic. “Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run, there’s still time to change the road you’re on.” Led Zeppelin, “Stairway to Heaven.”
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