Work that funds your making without consuming its logic, often misunderstood as pure obstacle when it can function as protection—providing income, routine, and distance from the market pressures that corrode artistic judgment. The day job's greatest gift is freeing you from having to please everyone, allowing your real work to stay answerable only to itself.
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