I appreciate the thoughful answer, @azircon and I do remember our conversation vividly.
If I understand the morale of your story correctly, you're referring to practicality, which is one of the lessons I had to learn myself over the last years. Well that and PMF is very important - but that's a long story. In regards to practicality and being willing to change professions: yes, fully agree there.
That said, I hope you don't find my posts to be mumbo jumo. I enjoy parabels and I try to explain my thoughts through them as well. Might not always turn out perfect, but won't stop me from trying again :)
Not your posts in particular, I was referring to hivemiximus. Anyways, water under the bridge.