Will said:
In the past five years I have never left my office, but have had three employers. One retired due to illness. The next one told me that he wanted me to stay, "because you know all the players". He was not happy that I knew how to handle the "players in the biz", so he disappeared and somebody else came along who loves that I know how to handle the "players in the biz". Politely put, "a player in the biz" is not a real nice term. "A player in the biz" eventually starts to go down and tries to hold on by any means necessary, oftentimes quite disreputable means.
That said, whatever honest work a man does to keep the lights on should be respected. More refined people in "the biz" consider "the biz" to be nothing more than work they could get in a time of hardship after graduating from a real college with a real degree, while another in "the biz" just fell in love with the work itself after graduating from a real college with a real degree. I would find it an honor not to be considered "a player in the biz".
