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In my quest to discover ways to create enough income to raise my son while sustaining my career as an artist, I’ve started looking into alternative ways of generating money.
I know I want something that doesn’t keep me away from the studio while my son is in school and allows me time with him when he’s not in school. If it involves interacting with or helping people in some way, that’s a plus.
All these buzzwords or expressions that I’ve been running across, have been making their way into my consciousness. . .”Passive Income” has a nice sound to it. . . but doesn’t that sound too good to be true? I imagine lounging around all day in a recliner twiddling my thumbs while a stream of greenbacks snake their way into my mailbox. . . Not possible.
“Investment Income”also sounds good. . . but where’s the money going to come from to even start investing? And besides, isn’t that what we artists are already doing from the moment we start purchasing materials to create finished works of art?
“Residual Income.” Now that sounds like something that has a certain amount of longterm performance activity generated by some kind of initial effort. It definitely doesn’t feel like it has anything to do with a 9-5 job.
Teaching, waiting tables, or some other day job is the normal course of action and can of course work out to some degree. I’ve found however, the work is so time-consuming and energy-draining that there’s hardly the tiniest fraction of time or energy to put into creative work when the workday or work week is over. . . If the job is not too intellectually challenging, we can imagine what we’ll do once we have time in the studio again. . .
So the quest continues. . .I’ll report back any promising findings.
