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Jessie Lynn McMains's avatar

This is super relevant to me, especially today. Was just having a conversation last night with a poet friend about how we only do non-creative work as much as we have to, to (mostly) pay the bills, but how sometimes when we’re really struggling we think about packing it in and getting Real Jobs that would give us a more stable life. But then we don’t because, well, as a different friend of mine once put it re: being a broke musician: “I fucked myself over at a young age, so I figured I better stick with it. I don’t want anything to fall back on…because then I’d have something to fall back on.”

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