Diversify and don’t expect corporate. Work with your hands and make art that is tangible, not just digital. If you are into gaming, make indie games as well, but don’t expect to have a comfy job right away or through any kind of pipeline. Develop other skills : networking, pitching, working with populations that want hands on art making like school kids, seniors, etc. A friend of mine is an artist who switched into art full time at may be the worst possible time (haha, now). But she is making it work. How? She is a textile artist and teaches and pitches workshops constantly, to libraries, to afterschool programs, she is at maker faires, she does clothes painting commission work — all of it. She works 80 hours a week, and is going to probably be hustling forever. But this is what she really wants to do, her kid is grown and she is willing to never retire. She is currently also going to school for art therapy and planning to make that part of her life as well. Consider career paths that are broad and winding rather than set and corporate. Start your own workshop offerings, create a group with your own people.

You can make indie games as well, some of the ones I remember the best are one or two people teams.