My grandfather kept asking me that question after I graduated from school. Then I was elected president of the Sierra Club, and I figured that I'd stop getting asked. My grandfather thought that I had become a gardener. He didn't figure out that being a gardener wasn't such a bad thing until I was an answer to a question on Jeopardy. It doesn't matter whether you're a gardener or a graphic designer, only that you tend your garden well.
Some gardens are easier to till than others.
I have found that most of the least fertile ground in America is located in our nation's capitol. Now that wasn't what you'd call a sparkling reference on my resume, being that the Sierra Club works on important federal legislation. Unfortunately I still have to spend a lot of time there. I remember coming home from one particularly hard trip where a Senator called me a certifiable nut for suggesting we take down this 'little' dam on the Colorado river. I was feeling demoralized until I heard this story.