Downside #38

You can't do anything else

I mean, what else are you going to do? Whether you're qualified for anything vaguely respectable or not (which given the amount of time you've spent in strange corners of the uncivilised is highly unlikely), the fact is there are very few jobs that attract quite the same amount of instant kudos. Forget everything else, how can you possibly walk straight into another job that offers you the same mini-celebrity status? Or more to the point, how can you possibly accept a job that doesn't?

It's not just your kudos, either - your friends will get microkudos just from telling people they know you, everyone you meet gets to tell the folks back home, shopkeepers hang your picture on the wall next to the King, or President, or Bela Lugosi or whoever it's supposed to be. Dammit, handing out your business card is practically a public service. How could you ever give that up? They've got you by the vanity balls and they know it. Bastards.