TV or Not TV?

When my interest in screenwriting emerged a few years ago, somewhat late (too late, if you ask anyone west o' the Mississippeh), my focus was on features - specs, to be more specific. In that time, I've taken a few courses and sporadically written chunks of two different scripts, though I've yet to finish a draft of either. I'm still intent on completing them, in spite of myself and my absence of writer's discipline. However, with a script sale rate of 4 per thousand, it's a tough gig. Throw in an aversion to pitching and an age that exceeds 29 and it becomes Mission: Highly Improbable.

Is that cynical or am I just being realistic? A recent article essentially eulogized the spec market and deferred all new contestants to television writing instead. I'm considering the shift. I'd never considered the TV market before and still prefer to stay clear of it, but what alternative is there? Web? Gadget apps? I just want to tell a story. I'll write it the best way I know how. The conventional wisdom has always been that all you need is a great script. Perhaps I'm naive, but a part of me holds on to that as being true. Hopefully, someone in the industry does, too.