The secret to making money doing what you love

Pepper Raccoon, artist and merch designer, shares her tactics for creating a proper living out of being an artist.

There’s a common belief that when you’re making career choices, you have to choose between doing what you love, or making money.

While that’s sometimes true, it’s doesn’t have to be true.

Even creatives, the ones most famous for becoming starving artists, can find systems to make a living without selling out to the man.

It does, however, take a strategy. After all, if it was easy, everyone would do it.

Well one such creative was nice enough to take time out of her day to walk me through exactly how she makes a good living as an artist.

Wellingtonian Pepper Raccoon has been going for seven years now, working as a fine artist who makes pins, t-shirts, and other merchandise.

It’s going so well that she’s even had to upgrade from being a sole trader, to a registered company, a big milestone.

Here’s how she makes it work.

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