I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to be hard to write all day and then come home and write fiction.
Like everyone else, there are days when I don't want to go to work. However, writing is a job like anything else.
If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.
My approach is to treat writing very much as a job.
I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.
I don't call acting a real job, and writing is a hobby.
Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.
I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!
I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.
If your purpose is to make money, you shouldn't get into writing.