Being a full-time musician is a job too, with the equivalent of interviewing. If someone prefers software, let them.
And you can't quit your job to live minimally if you have zero or less net worth. Expenses only go so low.
Saying it's "easy to be free" is massively condescending to every person that struggles to get over the poverty line. Not everyone can just "get" gigs whenever they want.
Buddy I have has been homeless, in jail, never finished school, etc, etc, etc and this year he hopes to break the 7 figure income mark after more than a decade of mid-six figure income.
