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I find it funny reading about this from the other side of working in the arts for over a decade. Hand to mouth existence, zero security, savings, pension, living in shitholes, competing with people from wealthier backgrounds for funding and opportunities... It's wearing in a very different way. I imagine it's far easier having had a professional career to take whatever nest egg you've saved and re-purpose that towards a new career too but I could be wrong-for all the chat about employers valuing creative thought etc they seem to give zero fucks for anyone with arts related qualifications and experience.
There's definitely great things about the freedom and self-direction too but when you pass 30 you suddenly get a feeling of vertigo and want a bit more of a safety net incase things like children pop up, so I've been trying to veer into something more stable and professional for the last few years that will also allow me to emigrate and am now studying to be a landscape architect which hopefully will retain at least some creativity/contact with the natural world or at the very least won't suck ass or reduce me to being a corporate slave.
I think the UK is definitely taking a turn for the worse in terms of both employment rights and welfare though so perhaps in the end it's all one and the same, but it would be nice to know there's regular income coming into my bank account every month or possibly even live somewhere for longer than six months at a time.