Well, personally,
I would feel like a failure if a friend of mine offered me some work, I consistently failed to do it, got all the money off him in advance and prioritised getting pissed and stoned over and above doing the work which I'd been paid to do.
You might have different standards to that, fair enough, but to me this guy has failed and any more support given to him until he realises the connection between being paid money and the necessity of doing the fucking job wouldn't be doing anyone a favour. These actions might (just about) be forgiveable in a young, inexperienced person, but someone over 30 behaving like this. Failure.
Success isn't about money, or "achievement" but it is about not using other people and having some standards of morals and ethics. And often those people who are the most at fault in having those minimal standards are the ones who moan the most when anyone serves them up the same shit they liberally dish out to others.
( I_Was_Mordred, Wed 28 May 2008, 0:53, Reply)