I had a friend who worked at a plant and was an author on the side. I don’t think there’s any evidence that good novelists (let alone merely promising ones) are likely to have personalities that make them likely to be bosses.
How does this union thing work - getting laid off then being brought back on again when work picks up? How do you get to be on the union list?
(I'm in the UK, and I tend to associate that kind of approach to casual employment with dock work in sea ports. That ended with containerisation in the 1980s)
No, as demonstrated from the retreating from the office. Someone with exceptional written communication, who dose self-starter side projects, commandeeres a truck, _and_ talks a skip-level manager into giving him special consideration is sounding a lot more like a boss.