Why don't you just get a job™

The question everyone reaches for; answered plainly. Because he isn't looking for a job; he's looking for missional work (the highest ethos, not the highest bidder). “Just get a job” is advice for a man scrambling from under a mortgage; that's not the footing here. The house is secured (sort of); no mortgage; what's on it are misfit liens that will drop off (temporary, named, on their way out; not a rope around the neck). So he's building out of the house, not from under it; and that difference is the whole answer. A secured base is what lets you hold out for the work that matches the ethos instead of grabbing the first paycheck that clears; the freedom to say no to just-a-job is exactly what makes the missional yes possible. Take the mortgage panic out of the equation and “why don't you just get a job” answers itself; because the job was never the goal, the mission was. (Honest footing: his own labeled framing of his own situation, in his own voice; no figures, no creditors, nothing the record can't stand behind. “Secured, sort of” is his phrase, and the honesty is the point.) Kin: available to the highest ethos, I retired before I became evil, the misfit who leads with love, building out not from under. (His coin; machine's read, refine to his.)