Series of Hideous Leveraging Deception: Traded for Cash

I want to make one thing clear. I am not a salesman. Well, to be perfectly clear, I am a shitty salesman. I would identify myself as a writer. Arguably, a shitty one. I worked my way up to paid television writer, and thanks to the writers' union, I earned a livable salary. But when the series I had been working on was canceled after my first season as a staff writer, I was no longer earning a livable wage. I got by, more or less, mostly because my wife was earning a livable wage. I...
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I want to make one thing clear. I am not a salesman. Well, to be perfectly clear, I am a shitty salesman. I would identify myself as a writer. Arguably, a shitty one. I worked my way up to paid television writer, and thanks to the writers' union, I earned a livable salary. But when the series I had been working on was canceled after my first season as a staff writer, I was no longer earning a livable wage. I got by, more or less, mostly because my wife was earning a livable wage. I picked up writing jobs here and there. A docuseries, a food show. I wrote a freelance script on a comedy series. But I never had a consistent paycheck. Debts mounted, taxes went unpaid, daughters needed to go to preschool. Out of desperation, I started down a path that would forever.