@dalehileman,
I can't imagine any profession that is not ultimately dissatisfying. Piss-balling about being excepted. We spend our first years piss-balling about, when our basic character is formed according to the Freudians. And many others. It is a shorter period now than it used to be seeing as how the party in power needs you all to work hard and increase efficiency so that it will be popular in the polls for a couple of days before the election, and our last years restoring the pristine dignity of piss-ballologists, Not a few going all the way.
Hence acquiring and exercising a profession expertise in other fields goes against the grain. It is unnatural. The more expertise acquired and the more avidly it is applied the more unnatural it is. The image of the Mad Scientist in folk-wisdom springs readily to mind.
Obviously such a thing will cause our metabolism to become confused as its rate of evolution is such as to leave it more or less unchanged from when piss-balling about was the only profession there was. Unfortunately, our metabolism cannot talk and so its only way of communicating its discomfort is to provide warnings.
These warnings are hushed up by the medical profession with all sorts of wonders resulting in it now having an absolutely enormous partiality to metabolisms flashing warnings and, by extension, and also a most serious allergy to piss-balling about.
Now that The Pope has given the nod to piss-balling, as He did in his Easter Message, we can begin the process of manufacturing fewer and fewer nerds until we end up with just enough elite nerds to manage the ICBMs and the drones while the rest of us drift back into our natural state.
If we keep manufacturing nerds at the rate we are doing we will end up with nerds making movies and TV programmes and managing the bus depot and the chip-shops.
That's how we got tart's knickers curtains in all the pub windows.
And even stranger than the Pope's advice was the reduction in the beer tax in the last budget. Something previously unheard of. Yes--a reduction in the beer tax. Maybe Hell might freeze over after all.
Obviously it is now official policy that pub closures have gone quite far enough despite what the medical profession might say.