Unfortunately, this post would have been inappropriate for an Online Humanities course. (Filtering mechanisms are selective):

* Greetings, Amanda.
Regarding the path you have chosen (if it did not choose you), how
do you feel the 'industry' receives writers? Taking your experience
into account, would you say it favors diversity or does it favor a
shallow ridge or ravine under which goals set by the individual are
met with elements of socialization known as abject cultural preference?