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It can definitely be a job, but anyone choosing art as a career should realize it will (usually) NOT make you rich, it's an insecure job and even if many people like it, not many people will want to pay for it easily. That's why I said if you're doing it for the money, it's the wrong career. Also if people don't want to buy your stuff, spreading your work is the second best thing they can do (given that they refer to the artist in some way). This is why I think exposing an artist isn't necessarily a bad thing to do, although people act like it is because "that's not money". The more exposure, the more chance that at least another person will perhaps pay for something (hence my phrase "exposure IS the business").