3 ms·

Paywall. Can someone provide a summary?

• combatentropy 9y ago
  Many artists had day jobs. For example, the composer Philip Glass was a plumber, the poet William Carlos Williams was a doctor. The article explores whether a day job gets in the way of your art or feeds it in some way.
  • TheOtherHobbes 9y ago
    And a very silly article it is too, because the confirmation bias is absolute. We never hear of talented artists whose careers were sunk by job slavery, because their stories will never get media attention.
    • UenoHDTV80 9y ago
      But the article spotlightd successful artists who say dayjobs fueled their work. I don't think the point is to answer the question statistically. For some talented people, a dayjob is preferred. And that's all the article is about