-: My metric for success is, can I support my family
and be happy?
And if I can do those two things, then I will do it.
I could be a novelist and be extremely happy
being a novelist, but I can't support my family.
And I could go to work at some big faceless corporation
and just be one more cog in their machine
and support the family, but I won't be happy.
So I need to be able to do both of those things
at the same time and I consider that success.
It doesn't matter how much money I make,
as long as there is enough, that's all I need.