If you want to be an indie artist, you must first search yourself. It is important to make sure if you want to indulge with this profession or field of music. Being a human, we need to live. To be able to live, we need to eat and to be sheltered.
In the indie world, you must understand that being an indie artist does not have sure money. A full time indie artist does not have the assurance whether he/she can eat three times a day. Some indie artists have this kind of problem. Some of them chose to have a career shift because they cannot afford to live being one.