he had de-cided he wanted this gig in spite of the problems it pre-sented - in part because of the problems it presented ; life without problems was a fairly uninteresting proposition - but that did n't mean he was going to sell his soul to keep it , especially not to a suit with a big gut and the voice of an overgrown kid who has spent too much of his adult life trying to get some payback for real or imagined slights he had suffered in the elementary-school playground .