Miaos wrote:... it's still more of a passion than a real job, at least if you want to write things that have meaning and a certain depth.
As far as I'm concerned, I'd say it's a retired hobby that I do with a certain "amateur professionalism" out of passion! This hides a side of "activism" - I am campaigning for a world that is a little more peaceful, more bio-diverse (including man), less "single thought", less "obscurantist" (beliefs) ...
[I have had a lot of messages from "professionals"; I received a visit from fellow agronomists, people working at INRAe, after reading my book: apart from an error so gross that almost everyone corrects it - a typo - in the second, and two or three nuances, no one has yet questioned a passage from one of my books by asserting / demonstrating that such and such an argument, or such information, that I was advancing was false. This is what I mean by "professionalism" ...]