Agreed. I also have an Arts degree and make a decent living. You just have to love what you do, be dedicated, and good. I wonder if the high unemployment rates reported have more to do with the volume of people that get these degrees compared to the others. Most of them may have gone in thinking it would be easy, when in reality, nothing is easy.
I really don’t think anyone with an artistic bent goes into these professions thinking it is going to be easy. I’ve been aligned with “artists” my whole life. I’ve never heard one of them say they went into it because it was “easy.” They went into it because it is their vocation. It’s a hard life.