When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.
If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed.
I could count my modeling jobs on my hands and toes. When I graduated from college, I moved to New York specifically to study acting, and I needed to pay the bills, and it's better to make a couple thousand dollars in one day than to wait tables six days a week.