Do you have a job or a career?

[angus]

Am I the only one with a career!?

No, by my reckoning several of us do.  I actually voted for all four options.  My job is my career, and some of it I like.  I'm also a student of life, and I'm in student mode most of the time.  I study many problems both formally and informally.  I also depend upon my wife's income, which has always been about 75% of mine, but this year, for the first time ever, is exactly the same as mine, and as a matter of mutual agreement we save 100% of my net income each month and use 100% of hers to make a living (rent, food, clothing, vacations, etc.) so technically my son and I are symbionts to her host.  (We should probably thank her for working so hard.)  To some extent, therefore, all four apply.

[angus]

yes, I also noticed the conspicuous absence of popular options such as "I am independently wealthy" or "I am the King of Spain" or "My junta and I take what we need by force.  We are not leaches.  We are men."

[angus]

that would be covered under "I'm a loser, living off of some other person's work...I should probably thank them more".

Good point.  And the independently wealthy are living off the fruits of the labors of their ancestors.  And you could argue that the thugs, dictators, drug lords, pimps, and gangsters are career men, of sorts, so I guess his four options really do cover everyone in the universe except Torie.