The Loneliness of the Writer (and my murdering work experience supervisor)

I so wanted to write. I produced several short stories and worked on my own full-length adventure novel, complete with the requisite nuclear threat, manly hero and car chases through London.

A survey of 1,500 American workers in 2018 to identify the loneliest professions turned up what at first glance might seem surprising results. The five loneliest professions were:

1. Law

2. Medicine

3. Science

4. Engineering

5. Civil servants.

I confess I would never have picked these because as a teenager my real ambition was to be a writer, a profession stereotypically kn…