I see a ton of people around me that are writers, music producers, actors and so on. They all claim that they are in their first years of their careers and they need more time to be successful at a scale that makes it worth spending their life doing it.
The way I see it is that those people have the luxury of not having to worry about money too much and enjoy not being responsible for a boss or customer for fruits of their labor. They all can claim they are Franz Kafka waiting to be discovered later