The paths of art, literature, psychism, and classroom teaching are the usual paths to poverty, especially poverty in old age, unless you are so exceptional in your field that your low ceiling raises itself to a higher one for you.

The only solution is to straddle two, simultaneous paths, the other one the path to lucre, by tweaking the Tagalog idiom of riding your boat in two different rivers. 

Spirit Questors, always remember this: My objective was never to be Batman. My objective was to be Bruce Wayne.