Have multiple streams of income so you can focus more on your art or other creative work.

Remember, you have your creativity to share with the world, to make it a better place, and no one will do that in the exact same way that you will. You are valuable!

And there are more ways to make money than you may know. Check out the resources and my commentary below.

Rat Race Escape Plan by Andy Tanner 

https://s3.amazonaws.com/rd-downloads-01/Rat-Race-Escape-Plan-2nd-Edition.pdf 

Fear will keep you broke! by Lynn Richardson 

https://youtu.be/DtJ2jIFvJwg?si=C-QfX2qoM2ARj1vD

                                                                  

Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! 

by Robert T. Kiyosaki 

Read the bestselling book, or listen to the audiobook (your local free library may have it), and/or play the Cashflow board game based on the book, or play the game online.
Increase your financial literacy while having fun.
https://www.richdad.com/

Creating a Life Worth Living: A Practical Course in Career Design for Artists, Innovators, and Others Aspiring to a Creative Life

a book by Carol Lloyd available on amazon as an e-book and a paperback. 

The Top 6 Blocks That Keep Artists From Making Money

by Josie Lewis         

https://www.josielewis.com/the-blog/the-top-6-blocks-that-keep-artists-from-making-money

13 Places to Show and Sell Your Art IRL (That Aren’t Galleries) 

by Josie Lewis

https://www.josielewis.com/the-blog/sell-your-work-irl

Every Screenwriter Should Think About Two Careers 

by Eric Edson

https://youtu.be/WMYMUoGj4Ws?si=dVpxLEPnJuQKQB5M

From Paycheck to Purpose: the Clear Path to Doing Work You Love by Ken Coleman (your free library may have it)

https://shorturl.at/8WooK

The Job Market Just Changed. Here's What To Do About It by ALifeAfterLayoff.

https://youtu.be/1BOKDGDBJrE?si=1KGDaVQU52UxYVy6

Spiritual Hygiene Moment for Money and Finances by Iyanla Vanzant 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhy2DRzVtIA

My commentary, what I've learned to do regarding day jobs:

Get a job that you at least like, even if you don't love it. Don't settle for a job that you dislike or hate and then stay there suffering indefinitely. That would not be good for your mental health or your physical health in the long run. If you can't get a job that you like right this second, then find that kind of job as soon as possible, a job in which you can play to your natural strengths most of the time. Yes, you do have natural strengths!  See one of Marcus Buckingham's YouTube videos on doing work that plays to your natural strengths, such as these, Defining Strengths and Invest in Your Strengths. 

And choose a job that you can also turn into a career which you can grow while you are creating your art. 

You're working at that those jobs not from the viewpoint of "it's work I do to fall back on in case I don't make it as a creative," but because of your decision to make money to help you live well WHILE you're also creating your artistic career. See the difference in viewpoint? One perspective is pessimistic and the other perspective is optimistic.

The latter feels better to me. It's my choice. A full-time writing goal, for example, will likely take more time than you thought it would, but in the meantime, don't postpone your joy and don't make yourself miserable in life. There will be challenges in life but be good to yourself, "keep yourself whole and healthy," as Iyanla Vanzant says in her short YouTube video in the above link, and with healthy relationships, too.

You Should Get Paid - Learn the missing link to The Secret

As an artist or creative person, you can bring tremendous value to world, possibly by doing what comes naturally. Never mind if your family, co-workers, friends or signficant other does not see that fact. Right now, we're are talking about YOU and YOUR creative life, not theirs. And if you want to be paid for your creations, you should get paid. Look at this video for an uncommon approach to compensation.

Here is a link to the video: http://bit.ly/MSZLm2

money, it flows too

The subject of money is crass to some artists, but artists gotta eat. And the words "artist" and "starving" should never be in the same sentence! Along that line, here are some references that I found extraordinarily informative on the subject of money. Some of this information can even make the subject - dare I say it - painless and interesting. As I find out about more items of interest, I'll add them to the list below.

"Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money - That The Poor and Middle Class Do Not!" by Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon Lechter
http://www.richdad.com/

"Rich Dad's Increase Your Financial IQ: Get Smarter With Your Money" by Robert T. Kiyosaki
http://www.richdad.com/

Play the Cashflow game online for free - How To Get Out of the Rat Race. Also purchase the Cashflow 101 Board Game and Cashflow For Kids Board Game.
http://www.richdad.com/Rich-Dad-Games/CASHFLOW

"The Science of Getting Rich" by Wallace D. Wattles, is profoundly spiritual and profoundly practical at the same time. You can download a free e-book version by going to http://www.TheSecret.tv/ Click on "Gifts For You" in the menu, then scroll down the page.

In a book which was a course in career design for creative people, the author made an excellent point: it's not the desire for money that is bad, it is what you are willing to exchange for that money that determines whether the desire is good or bad. Some people give up their integrity, their dignity, their happiness, the happiness of loved ones, their own true hopes and dreams, even their lives for money. In those cases the desire for money is an insane lust. (And in those cases, I'm not speaking of people so broke and hungry that they are just trying to survive; I'm speaking of those who do have other choices which they could just as easily make.)

Now, in contrast, let's take someone like Oprah Winfrey, one of the richest and most influential people on the planet, whose altruism and philanthropy is as famous as she is. I'm sure Oprah could not have attained her billionaire status if she did not have a desire for wealth, but at the same time, she is an example of how one could behave with money. Someone with wealth does not have to be a miser, or someone who uses money to destructive ends.

Money is value neutral; the desire for money is value neutral. What one exchanges for money or what one does with money once it's acquired determines the morality of the financial situation.

On a related subject, most people never learned financial management. Their parents didn't know it and the grade schools don't teach it. The result is a mass of people who worsen their financial situations (often unnecessarily) because they don't know what to do with money when they get it. The cashflows, of the middle class particularly, tend to be, if I may use a technical term, wacky! "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" was written to increase financial literacy, and I can tell you personally, it certainly did accomplish that with me.