Andrew: I can not cite where Moglen gave these criteria, but I remember hearing them in about the same area you are quoting. I did not mean to suggest those goals are necessarily competing values. Instead I meant to suggest we should try to find work which will fulfill all our needs instead of just some (i.e. a firm job that allows us to live comfortably but gives us no happiness, balance or autonomy).

As for your marketability question, I would imagine its figuring out which skills are desirable. Its true garnering the same skills as the rest of the class will not separate us from the crowd, but being a skillful expressionist poet does not enhance our marketability unless we get the market to demand that skill.

However, some skills gained may be enjoyable to acquire in and of itself rather than for its future utility. So if you want to learn to be an expressionist poet lawyer, than go ahead. Perhaps it will become useful in the future. I thinks that's unlikely though.

-- JulianBaez - 15 Apr 2008