"Working artist" in this town = I sell shit on Etsy once in a while, for the most part. If I got paid for every unfiltered brain fart I subjected the world to I'd be rich. I don't consider myself an artist by any stretch of the imagination but I make money at it. Not my primary gig of course as I don't particularly like living one notch above homelessness, but I don't think being "creative" should exempt me from paying my fucking taxes. That's just some weird attempt at validating people's inflated sense of self-worth.