They are not allowed to prescribe, nor the medical men to dispense, except under special licence, and then only in small villages, where the pharmacist could not make a living.
Starting your own business and working it from the ground up is an excellent way to make a living once you are established.
But life on a farm was not to his liking, and at sixteen he left home and set off to make a living in some other way.
Driven from Strassburg by the authorities, after a short imprisonment in December 1531, he tried to make a living in 1532 as a soapboiler at Esslingen, removing in 1533 for a better market to Ulm, where (October 28, 1 534) he was admitted as a burgess.
Writing was her first choice, but everyone knew you couldn't make a living writing books.