coco: Personally, I have been naive in such matters and given out more than had been taken in.
Me too. The bane of the creative ones.
We are just so happy to be doing what we like that we blissfully meander along, giving away ourselves for free and then wondering, looking back, where it all went wrong
I could have been a good business person - if I had learned early on that money is the goal instead of happiness.
Happiness will look after itself. Money won't