For professional philosophers or authors, their philosophy or authorship creates their life style. My life style, based on reality, creates my philosophy and authorship. Sometimes I get carried away doing abstract philosophical theorising to the point, where I could almost qualify as an intellectual, but then ‘sobriety‘ comes to the rescue and takes the better of me.
I don’t get paid for theorising, and writing books has placed me in a financially negative zone, but I do earn a living doing manual work including ‘digging holes’. So, nowadays more metaphorically than literally due to my ailing physical condition, I still dig holes.