Choose your friends carefully, you never know when your life is going to land on HN: * Corporate lawyer working in a prominent New York firm * A poet in the past * Front man in an indie rock band in the past that his songs made it to the radio There shouldn't be more than 10 people fitting the description... Admits that his job was utterly meaningless, contributed nothing to the world, and, in his own estimation, should not really exist.

Btw great article!