I've been writing since I was a kid. Someone once said don't become a writer unless you have to. I love words. I've got lots of word books. Some may have come from Native Tongues by Charles Berlitz or any of a number of odd word books in my library.
Idioms are especially fun to try to convey to other cultures.
And euphemisms are also one of my favorite things to collect. Since you asked, my day job for the ten years since I moved to L.A. from Seattle was as a paralegal. But the work was on contract so there were no guarantees. I made enough to pay the rent and write and little else. I probably wouldn't have written it.