Independence Day #3

Independence Day comes but twice a year. Once for nation; that early July holiday that most everyone knows about. Then there’s my own Independence Day, April 14. Today is my third anniversary as a self-employed, independent contractor who produces one thing: arrays of words.

Beats digging a ditch, as an earlier generation used to say, though in the developed world these days, ditch-digging is mechanized, and in many parts of that same First World, the machinery operators are unionized. A ditch digger with 20 years' seniority might well make more than (say) a teacher of similar vintage, for all I know.