As I recall, Rachel’s family cut her off when she walked out of her wedding to the dentist.
I was referring to the big trip to London, but I can’t recall any other places. I thought they took ski trips and other various sitcom location changes.
Chandler had some mid-level office job (we never get to know exactly what).
Joey of course, was a struggling soap star, but he could have been making decent money.
Ross of course, was a Harvard Ph.D paleoanthropologist at the New York Museum of Natural History. So he was pretty well covered.
Monica was a chef. I never followed closely enough to keep up with how well she rose in her profession. But she was a “professional.”
We’ve already discussed Rachel.
Phoebe is the big question. A struggling folk singer?
My all-time favorite example of the character-with-no-obvious-means-of-support would be Mickey Rourke’s Henry Chinaski in the 1987 movie “Barfly.” The no-sweat, happy-go-lucky skid-row character penned by alcoholic cult writer Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994) was a self-portrait but in it we never see how the carefree Henry made the rent on his fleabag apartment, paid his bar tab, and kept from starving, and why the two female leads would find him worth brawling over.
This was driven home to me by the acclaimed 2003 biopic documentary on Bukowski “Born Into This” wherein we have clips of the author bemoaning his hungry, drifting years working menial jobs (dishwasher, potato-chip factory hand, stock-boy, etc.) banging only the ugliest of women who would do a loser like himself, and especially his fourteen years as a postal clerk at the L.A. Post Office. It was only when he was in his forties that he began to achieve sufficient fame with his poetry and short stories to be able to quit his day job and get it on with groupies.