>when you're not good enough for the field you studied

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>when you're not good enough for the field you studied for and don't have a backup plan

All my life, all I ever wanted to do was art. Whether it was comics, illustration, concept art, storyboarding etc.

When I went to art school, I realized I was basically studying how to be a freelancer. While I did get freelancing gigs, the jobs were few and far between and not enough to make a steady income. It's hard to make a good income with art when there's always someone out there who can do the job for cheaper.
So I tried looking into companies I could work for.

After three years, I finally got my first real foot-in-the-door job, thanks to an alumni from my school. The job title was technical artist, but there wasn't much coding involved. It just needed a good working knowledge of Photoshop and After Effects. The job in a nutshell was taking the graphics and sounds from slot machine games, resizing/cropping them and adjusting the position of the graphics via x/y coordinates and tags set up via game's script.

It wasn't what I wanted to do for a job, but it was something I could do, was comfy and I did it for 3 and a half years until I was laid off.

Now I'm stuck in the same position and not sure where to go at this point. I never had a backup plan besides art. The only other thing I could think of is maybe advertising but I absolutely don't want to go back to school.

It sucks when I'm not good enough for my dream jobs, but I don't know any other jobs i could put my skills to. I guess I should just keep working on my art to get better, to get the job I want, but it's hard to do that with no income coming in already.

Out of all the applications I've put in, I've only had one interview with a video game company and never heard back.

I just don't know what to do at this point.