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How many times I've heard photographers say things like:
"I'm only doing the weddings for the money."
"Yeah, these product shots are only for the money."
"I hate photographing people's pets/kids/grandparents, but it pays the bills."
Photographers have learned a very long time ago that you only get paid money if you take the pictures that customers want to have taken. That means pets, kids, family members, weddings.... and the "art" thing (taking the pictures YOU want) is just a hobby, and making a living from it is a dream.
There are some photographers that can take whatever pictures THEY want, and sell them as fine art and make a glorious living, but that is maybe 0.1% of the entire market. Most photographers that fall into that category are famous the world over.
I expect it's the same with most writers; 0.1% of writers that make a living by writing what they want to write, a larger group that makes a decent supplementary income next to a normal job, and a huge group of writers that earns peanuts or nothing with their own writings.
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