The thing is, in the past it wasn’t so easy to survive without a “normal”job.
We are lucky we are living on a technological era, with tons of options on the internet to make a living, steemit itself being s great example.
Diversifying incomes/investments is always one of the top recommendations in order to have a estable life. Of course the best way to diversify incomes is to create passive incomes sources, like mining bitcoins for example 😆