In answer to the writers question “Am I a deadbeat”, Yes you are. Next question.
That was my thought too.
His “vocation” was to be a writer? And he had to abandon it because he couldn’t afford the college of his choice (which he had expected his parents to pay for)? Break out the world’s smallest violin.
Writers don’t need to go to college and take creative writing courses...they just need to read a lot, talk a lot about it with other people, and WRITE. Something that’s hard to do if you’re busy whining.