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Depends on what you consider success. He lives with my mom, and she bankrolls his life for the most part. Gave him her old car, pays for all the maintenance on it. A few years ago she remodeled his room in her house to include a dark room for his photography, which he doesn't really do anymore. These days it's music, and he gets a little money from gigs--the sad thing is he is actually quite talented, but you have to be a lot more than that if you're going to make it big in Austin--but she pays ("invests" ) for the studio time to record his albums, gets him plane tickets to fly to NY to have it professionally mixed by a top-notch engineer, etc.
So yeah, he's not on the street and doesn't worry about grocery money. He's cool with sleeping on a mattress on the floor in our mother's back room, so by that standard it's working well for him so far. Thing is, he has a girlfriend now for the first time in his life. She has a good job, is completely responsible... I don't know what the hell she sees in him, but I love her. And my mom's been remodeling her entire house for several weeks now, so he's had a crash course in living with this girlfriend while there's no water in my mom's house. I can easily see the girlfriend just taking over the payments, as it were.
But she wants a baby, bad. And I think she could probably talk him into it, because he'd figure he could just make it work somehow. And between the girlfriend and my mom, they probably could after all.
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