I can't afford to patronize you as a Storyteller...hmm, ambiguous. While most of the possible meanings are in fact true, let me start over.

I can't match what you're paid to be a Game Designer. (I can't even begin to match what kestrell gives you to be kestrell's Husband, but you're not complaining about that identity.) But do you have to identify yourself by what you're paid to do? I mean, I dug ditches one summer during college, but I never identified myself as a ditch-digger: I "was" a college student, even though I wasn't doing any college studying during those same months. (Those quotation marks aren't for irony, they're to emphasize what my use of "was" was.)