True, in my experience one can make more in a morning with a good commercial art gig than with a month's or more work on a piece of Poser Content even if it turns out to be a hot seller. The trouble is hooking up with a good gig.

Lawyer stuff sounds good... in the late eighties in New York it was $15 an hour just to make graphs and pie charts and other simple visual aids for court room use. Another thing artists used to do for money back then was watering/trimming plants in office buildings for contract outfits which paid a somewhat similar rate IRC.