[sdwr]

Anyone who has seriously works, exercises, or creates, fights quitting. I'm curious how others deal with it.

I don't find thoughts like the ones in the post very helpful. Once I start thinking about instead of just doing, I've already lost. The only thing that helps me is remembering not giving up in the past, which feels like yoko ono's ladder to yes.

[egypturnash]

I'm fifty years old. I've been good enough at drawing to have people pay me to do it since about 2000.

There's a point where it's just... what you do. Where it's become a major part of your life and you get to regularly remind yourself that even when it gets kind of tedious, you're still paying your bills by doing this thing you essentially love doing. And then you get to figure out how to make it more exciting: bigger challenges? new approaches? working with other people to make something bigger than you can make yourself? or just shrugging and accepting that this has become Work instead of Play, and enjoying being able to do solid work in a tenth of the time it once took, and enjoy more leisure time to do other things you enjoy?

I mean, what the fuck else am I gonna do? Get a day job at the bottom of some other career ladder?