Do any artists who do it as a paid profession struggle with this? The ones I know are pretty straight forward about it. The writers and photographers and actor

Do any artists who do it as a paid profession struggle with this? The ones I know are pretty straight forward about it. The writers and photographers and actors I know who identify as such are either doing it as their profession, or attempting to do so, for money. I would have thought you only really get into trouble here when you’re using it to try and describe a facet of your identity, and people assume you’re describing your work.