I Want My Girlfriend To Quit Acting and Get a Job

Pretty sure I'm just being realistic!
Q:
My girlfriend wants to be an actor. I think she’s talented, but she’s been pursuing this for 10 years now (we have been together for three years) and has only been in shorts, student films, improv shows, web series, stuff like that. Only once has she been in a real TV show, that was four years ago, and it was a small part for one episode.
Outside of acting, she does gig stuff, like Taskrabbit, dog-walking and Door Dash. She hasn’t wanted to get a full-time job because she wants to be available for acting work. I pay for a lot of what we do together. I have a good job and savings, she has student loan debt (from a BFA program) and no savings. She is really confident that her big break is just around t...

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