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Well, I quit the acting world. And it was fucking HARD. We attach a lot of self-worth and definition of selves based on these ideas we had many years ago about what we wanted out of life... but you know what? That was a lot of years ago. And you are not that same person. Neither am I.
It becomes very simple: you think about the life you want, and then you take steps to attain that life. If it does not include paying someone to do your stats for you and living in a publish-or-perish atmosphere, then that is the first thing to go. It's hard to let yourself down, but in fact, what you are truly doing... is NOT letting yourself down. Not punishing yourself for the sake of some ideal that is entirely baseless at this point. You're not giving up. You're choosing to do something else.
I like kstp's idea, because that gives you time to not feel like you're giving up, but also to search out what will make you happy in a career life.
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My heart knows me better than I know myself, so I'm gonna let it do all the talkin'.
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