I'm JUST learning about Discord, I'm on a few channels (I think channels? lol) PAL and SteemArtists. In my previous career I managed a sales call center for 10 years. The reason I was able to make art my career in less than 3 years after I created my first painting (at age 31) is because I knew that without selling art, I'd have no art career.I knew I needed to apply all the stuff I'd learned in 17 years working in sales environments to make it happen. And - I soon learned selling art is pretty different from selling most other things. That being said, like most other things, there's ways that are proven to work.
Soon I'm actually going to start writing an art business advice column for an art magazine in NYC - they actually saw one of the art biz advice articles I wrote for Steemit and reached out to me because of it :) When that kicks in I can send the link to the new article each month for you too. In the meantime, here's another one I wrote on Steemit a couple of weeks ago - feel free to add it to your list! https://steemit.com/art/@adammillwardart/want-to-make-art-or-photography-your-career-3-things-not-to-do