Ok, so I feel this one a bit. I a) have a day job (heck, it's been my effing career for 25+ years) that doesn't spark lots of joy but certainly brings in enough to live on, and b) am selling my art and getting better at it, and that does spark joy. I don't get quite the same sense of superiority off the LW that others do - more a sense of the frustration at the necessity of taking time to do something you don't love in order to support the thing you do love. LW does get a little extra by linking it to self esteem, but I can see where they're coming from in that.
Also, I feel like Prudie's answer ... what. It's ok, but basic. Prudie clearly has no connection to the struggling-artist-sole-proprietor world, and it shows. There are lots of resources out there - groups of artists that support and promote each other, run Facebook private groups to gripe about things and give advice, resources for learning how to run the business side of things, people you can hire to run the business side of things, places you can turn to that specifically help with social anxiety, ADHD and running an art business while dealing with them. I mean, the thing that does make me cock my head at LW is the fact that they're an internationally known artist and haven't run into these support mechanisms themselves - they're not hard to find, and some will come looking for you (especially the ones that promise to make the business side of things better for a mere $XX - they may not be worth it, but they do contain info that point the way towards the things that will help). I feel like Prudie is basically saying, "you're not alone (but I don't know where your people actually are)."
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Also, I feel like Prudie's answer ... what. It's ok, but basic. Prudie clearly has no connection to the struggling-artist-sole-proprietor world, and it shows. There are lots of resources out there - groups of artists that support and promote each other, run Facebook private groups to gripe about things and give advice, resources for learning how to run the business side of things, people you can hire to run the business side of things, places you can turn to that specifically help with social anxiety, ADHD and running an art business while dealing with them. I mean, the thing that does make me cock my head at LW is the fact that they're an internationally known artist and haven't run into these support mechanisms themselves - they're not hard to find, and some will come looking for you (especially the ones that promise to make the business side of things better for a mere $XX - they may not be worth it, but they do contain info that point the way towards the things that will help). I feel like Prudie is basically saying, "you're not alone (but I don't know where your people actually are)."