It's so telling that all our social narratives say that "do what you gotta do to survive" means some kind of violence or psychic damage against someone when what it's really "have some joy, get out in the garden, laugh with a friend"
@susankayequinn In my experience people usually say it to mean "work whatever job is available, even if it means being paid in goat entrails to kick puppies as you light the world on fire bit by bit".