Sex work is work, but Jesus fuck is it work. I once looked into quitting engineering school to be a dominatrix and while the expected median annual pay was shockingly close at the time, the low ends and the hourly pay for labor done (as opposed to billable hours) made me go back to studying at 4am as I sobbed over what useless fucks I'd been stuck doing a project with.
I think a lot of people have this idea that camming is easy, especially kids who see performance work as just the time on stage. Its why they see youtuber as a great job too. These content creation jobs are mostly high effort sales, where what you're selling is performances you had to write, perform, and film at a sufficiently professional level as well as doing all the legwork and back of stage work until you can afford to hire someone to do it. Oh and don't fuck up your taxes, if you manage to actually make money you're a small business owner. And if the content is sexual you get to have done all that for your job to be understood by most people to be a porn performer. Well, your night job, it's highly unlikely that you're making enough for the government to even notice you fucked up your taxes, much less enough to actually live off of