Why You Shouldn’t Quit Your Day Job

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Artists of all sorts hear a constant refrain: Quit your day job. It’s the ultimate objective of countless writers, painters, musicians and actors. Our culture has built it into a goal of mythic proportions. The catch of course being that only the tiniest percentage of artists will ever be able to earn enough from their art to support themselves.

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