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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!
I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.
I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it at home.
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.
I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.
I think fiction writers should work. If you have a job and are not living off advances or grants, you never have to make concessions in your writing, ever.
Like everyone else, there are days when I don't want to go to work. However, writing is a job like anything else.
Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.
I'm not a believer that you have to write every day. If I felt industrious, I'd spend ten hours a week writing. The writing is going on all the time in my head; the trick is to capture it. Showers are great. Traffic jams are great.
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.