For me, it’s tech companies and executives who need (ghost-written) content but lack the inclination or ability to write their own stuff. You can make a decent living, but it’ll never make you rich.

Yes. It helps to live somewhere with decent healthcare too.

At the end of the day, yes. But we get our pay checks from the publishing companies that commission our words.

I got paid by buyers of my book and a startup that pays me for blogging.