Neil Gaiman on his childhood dreams and career advise

Here is Neil Gaiman talking about how he became a comics writer.

Writing comicbooks was Gaiman’s childhood goal, much to the distress of his school’s career adviser. He said, “Well you know, how do you go about doing that then?” I said, “You’re the career adviser, you tell me.”

And then there was a long pause and at the end of it, he said, ” Have you ever thought about accountancy?”

I said, “No I have never thought about accountancy.”

And then, we sat staring at each other and I said, “Shall I send the next boy in?”

And he said, “Yes, you may as well.”

As far as career advice and planning goes, that was mine.

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