For artists to improve at their craft and be successful, they have to work at their art for hours every day. Having a full-time job, then, means having two jobs, not a life many would relish. Most of us average full-time drones come home tired from our full day’s work. To begin our second job with a pen, a paintbrush, a guitar or a camera requires concentration and energy, two resources that day jobs have a way of devouring. It’s hard enough to keep on top of life’s quotidian routines: laundry, groceries and housework. And the fact that most aspiring artists make little or no money from their
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