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Originally Posted by Levin

No person as an individual is fungible, but a person's professional life is entirely fungible -- except the artist.

And that's why I ended the first post with "have children," b/c for a child, the parents are irreplaceable.

Therefore, no matter what you do professionally, if you're a parent, you'll be, in at least one area of your life, irreplaceable, needed, and essential.

Now those people who are both parents and artists . . . wow, just wow.

Some scientists almost function as artists.