Comment by brazzy

> It feels to me like “do the things you like” is a luxury of someone who isn’t anxious about paying all their bills.

The real lesson is that you should not rely on popularity-based success to pay your bills, because there is no knowing how long it will take until you have any success; it may in fact never come.

It's that kind of thing that should be the side hustle. You'll have only limited time for it, but at least you know how to pay your bills and can do it the way you want.

The other option is to be a starving artist who also feels bad about compromising their vision to make something marketable.